FSU QB Who Hit Woman Breaks Silence: ‘I Totally Should Have Walked Away’

In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, former Florida State University quarterback De’Andre Johnson apologized for punching a woman in a Tallahassee bar in a now infamous video.

“Why didn’t you just walk away?” asked ABC News host and former pro-footballer Michael Strahan.

“I totally should have walked away. I’m sorry. If I could do it all over again, I would,” Johnson said.

“I apologize to the lady in the incident, to her family… to my mother,” he continued. “I know I wasn’t raised that way.”

Johnson wouldn’t comment on whether or not he had been drinking that night, or whether or not the woman had used a racial slur as his lawyer alleged. “It doesn’t matter,” he said. “What matters is that I shouldn’t have raised my hand to her. I should have walked away.”

Johnson’s mother Pamela Jones also sat down with Strahan for the interview. “I cried for three days,” she said, while admitting that when she heard the news, “I wanted to jump through the phone and wring his neck.”

Watch, via ABC News.

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