Janay Rice Recalls What Really Happened!!!

After being brutally hit in the head and knocked out by Baltimore Ravens Ray Rice, his wife Janay Rice Recalls What Really Happened in the elevator.

After the video surfaced Janay made it clear on Instagram that she felt the backlash was unwarranted. Now that Ray was able to convince the arbitrator and overturn his indefinite suspension by the NFL for hitting his then-fiancee and now wife in a hotel elevator, freeing him to play again on Friday.

Thanks to the decision Rice is now a free agent and he is “eligible to play upon signing a new contract.” The decision was overturned by former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones said Commissioner Roger Goodell‘s decision in September to change Rice’s original suspension from two games to indefinite was “arbitrary” and an “abuse of discretion.”

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According to WJLA, Jones was deciding whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension after video of the Baltimore Ravens running back punching Janay became public.  While Rice is ready to get back on the field, his wife is still on the clean up his image campaign speaking on the incident in the elevator in a new interview with ESPN’s Jemele Hill.

Janay explains:

“As we were arguing, he was on his phone and not looking at me. I went to reach for his phone, and when he grabbed it back, he spit at me and I slapped him.

We got into the elevator and what happened inside is still foggy to me. The only thing I know — and I can’t even say I “remember” because I only know from what Ray has told me — is that I slapped him again and then he hit me. I remember nothing else from inside the elevator.”

Janay recalls her difficulties watching the elevator footage:

“The video didn’t make me rethink our relationship, but I did want more of an explanation from him. I asked him why he left me on the floor like that. I asked him how he felt when he saw that I was unconscious. He told me he was in shock. I asked him what happened when we got out of the elevator. He told me he was terrified because security was there. I asked him how he felt seeing me like that. He said he was thinking, “What did I just do?” I didn’t watch the video again.”

Rice’s new wife weighs in on why she still married him:

“We were married March 28, the day after he was indicted for aggravated assault. We didn’t choose that day because of the indictment. It just happened to be a Friday and a time when our families could attend our wedding without having to interrupt their work schedules. I didn’t understand why that was suspicious to some people. We’d been together seven years and had been engaged for two. What happened that night wasn’t going to change the fact that we were going to get married.”

Janay also says she made a public apology because she feels she was wrong too:

“Looking out over the media, I became angry, seeing all the people who had been covering this and adding to the story. I wanted to tell everyone what was really on my mind. When it was my turn to speak, I said I regretted my role in the incident. I know some people disagreed with me publicly apologizing. I’m not saying that what Ray did wasn’t wrong. He and I both know it was wrong. It’s been made clear to him that it was wrong. But at the same time, who am I to put my hands on somebody? I had already apologized to Ray, and I felt that I should take responsibility for what I did. Even though this followed the Ravens’ suggested script, I owned my words.”

Janay isn’t comfortable being labeled a victim of domestic violence:

“I still find it hard to accept being called a “victim.” I know there are so many different opinions out there about me — that I’m weak, that I’m making excuses and covering up abuse — and that some people question my motives for staying with Ray.”

Janay states that she’s not a victim because the elevator attack was the first time Ray has ever assaulted her.

Really? Isn’t that what all domestic violence victims say? Here is just a few of the typical excuses, which Janay just displayed in her interview like, “Oh he didn’t mean it,” “It was an accident,” or our favorite, “He didn’t mean it.”

Is anyone believing her?

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