Follow-Up: Chandella Powell not fired, apologizes for softcore past

Last week I told you about UFC ring girl Chandella Powell, whose past as a softcore porn actress with the alias Mariah Ashton had been discovered, who was rumored to have been fired because of it. Chandella finally took to her Twitter to address the rumors over the weekend, and it turns out the porn part was true, but the firing part, not so much.

When you are young, you often don’t realize that your actions have consequences. I made a bad decision about ten years ago, but you learn from these moments. There is nothing I can do to change the past, and believe me, if I could, I would. That decision doesn’t represent who I am today. All I can do now is put the past behind me and move forward. I am sorry to disappoint any of my fans and my family at Zuffa. I love you guys :)

Not to get Shouty McSoapbox on you guys, but am I the only one annoyed that she feels like she has to apologize? What the f*ck are you apologizing for? Who are these fans who who were big proponents of a girl in a bikini who did Playboy, who were HORRIFIED when they found out the same girl had exposed her labia in a non-demure manner? (As opposed to the other ring girls who exposed it in a virtuous manner in Playboy). Identify yourselves, and then please, step into traffic. “I’m so sorry to the people who film my butt while I hold numbers over my head! I should’ve been related to someone famous before I had sex on camera like Kim Kardashian!”

Look, I know we have to accept a certain amount of hypocrisy just to keep our institutions running, but the idea that a girl walking around in a bikini as eye candy for horny dudes should have to apologize to those same horny dudes for not being bashful enough is a bridge too far for me. And as a horny dude, anything that discourages young girls from going full frontal offends me deeply.

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