Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci has condemned Jimmy Fallon for internet hosting Conor McGregor on The Tonight Present.
The Irish combined martial arts fighter appeared on Fallon’s discuss present final week to advertise his return to the UFC at UFC 329.
On her Instagram Story Monday, Ricci, 46, reshared a put up slamming Fallon for giving McGregor a platform following his 2024 sexual assault trial.
“Conor McGregor raped a lady so brutally that the EMT who noticed her commented on the severity of her bruising,” the put up, initially shared by entrepreneur Adam McRae, learn, partly.
“Why absolutely the f*** is that this piece of human rubbish being given a platform on Jimmy Fallon’s present? Disgrace on you, Jimmy.”
The Impartial has contacted McGregor’s consultant for remark.
Final yr, the MMA fighter misplaced his enchantment of a civil jury’s discovering in favour of a lady who had accused him of rape.
The lady efficiently sued McGregor in a civil court docket over an incident during which he was alleged to have “brutally raped and battered” her in a penthouse at a south Dublin lodge in December 2018.
A paramedic who examined the lady testified that she had not seen such bruising on a affected person in a very long time.
The jury discovered that McGregor, who advised the court docket he had consensual intercourse with the lady, was civilly answerable for assault.
The lady was awarded 248,603 euros in damages and McGregor was additionally ordered to pay about 1.3 million euros in authorized prices following the November 2024 trial.
McGregor continues to disclaim all allegations towards him referring to the case.
On July 11, McGregor will struggle Max Holloway in the primary occasion of UFC 329 in Las Vegas. The bout would be the Irishman’s first in 5 years, after he suffered a damaged leg in 2021, and it’s a rematch 13 years within the making.
McGregor, a former dual-weight champion, was scheduled to return in 2024, however a damaged toe dominated him out of a bout with Michael Chandler on two weeks’ discover.
In October, it was introduced that McGregor was serving a backdated ban over a number of missed drug assessments. The ban was backdated to September 2024, nevertheless, releasing up McGregor to return this March or later.
Throughout his prime, McGregor was probably the most feared and thrilling fighters within the UFC roster. He took a break from MMA in 2017 and fought boxer Floyd Mayweather within the American’s self-discipline, dropping through stoppage. A UFC return in 2018 introduced a submission loss to bitter rival Khabib Nurmagomedov, and McGregor has fought simply 3 times since.
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