Ray Rice Talks About Domestic Violence, NFL
NEW YORK (AP) —Ray Rice & wife Janay talk candidly with CBS.
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Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice says he's not speaking out against domestic violence as a way to rejoin the NFL.
Appearing Tuesday in a "CBS This Morning" interview with his wife, Janay, Rice said he sees similarities with himself after a video showed Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt shoving and kicking a woman at a hotel last month. Hunt was released by the Chiefs.
"Well, obviously, you know, you look back and you see the similarities," Rice said. "Early on you could feel like 'Why they keep bringing my name up?' You can make excuses or you can actually do the hard work," Rice said.
Rice was dropped from the team after he was captured on videos punching, kicking and dragging his then-fiancee from an elevator in 2014.
"I hate that person. I hate him. Somewhere down the line everybody who's sayin', 'Does he deserve a second chance for football?' And this that and the other - I actually got my second chance," Rice said, when the couple married weeks later.
Janay Rice said she had no idea she was in an abusive relationship until she was forced to think about it. She said she has never seen the video in which Rice beat her. She said it was the first and only time he physically abused her.
"I was there. I lived it. I don't really need to relive it over and over again just to appease the world," she said.
Rice denies he's looking to get back on the field.
"Well, see that for me, is something that I understand why it was being said early on about, you know, is this a ploy to get back into football. And I'll be the first one to say it. I don't have to retire to tell you I'm done with football. The pressure I was under of being a star, that was the person I hated the most," he said.
He has met with the NFL and shared his story as part of the league's domestic violence education program.
"I know they are working with groups to try to get more of an understanding. And they're doing the work," he said.
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