Rose Namajunas and Pat Barry discuss her history of child abuse.
Sean Strickland recently brought accusations of Pat Barry being a predator back into the light, with claims that he had groomed/abused his now fiance, Rose Namajunas.
While Barry denied the claims, he does maintain that Namajunas did in fact have a history of being abused as a child.
OK I’m done making fun of Pat the PREDATOR Barry. Rose followed me on IG once so naturally I slid in her DM’s. I didn’t know she had a umm what would you call him?? A groomer? Idk either way I won’t touch this again, hopefully Pat will do the same when he’s around children..
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) May 4, 2022
“Like, the people who know Rose’s actual history about being groomed since she was six years old…” said Barry on The MMA Hour, assuming that most people knew.
The MMA Hour host, Ariel Helwani, then asked Barry to repeat what he had said because he, like many, wouldn’t have been aware of Namajunas’ history. Namajunas, who was also present for the interview, then said, “I think on the Ultimate fighter I said I had a history of being abused since I was a little kid, I thought everybody knew that.”
Barry also seemed to assume that most people knew about the situation and even said with a smile, ‘Something about that’ is coming out.
Here’s the thing guys 99 percent of what I say is usually wrong.. This is not that time.. @rosenamajunas @TheAspenLadd like my post if you need help. I’ll treat Pat Berry and Jim West like they treat minor.. Without consent, although it won’t be behind closed doors lmao! https://t.co/caZfbGiWLn
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) May 12, 2022
Pat Barry allegations
The conversation arose as Helwani allowed Barry to clear the air on their relationship as Strickland’s comment had brought a lot of new attention to old allegations.
Barry trained Namajunas as a minor and subsequently dated her years after she had begun training under him.
Strickland still called Barry out for grooming as they began to form an emotional attachment while she was still a minor.
Heard Mat Mitrione lame bitch excuse for Pat. “Hes my friend he Waited till she was 18”
“grooming is befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, and sometimes the family, to lower the child’s inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse’ pic.twitter.com/jg3REMvTux
— Sean Strickland (@SStricklandMMA) May 12, 2022
Given the opportunity to explain his own personal situation with Namajunas, Barry claimed that the matter was simply a misunderstanding from an article that made a mistake. He didn’t wish to elaborate much further.
He said: “We don’t sweat that, we haven’t sweat that for years. Like I said this is no matter what happens even if I tell you exactly how it went down. That’s gonna get brought up.
“We don’t… we’ve passed that years ago. It used to be a moment… Then we found we found out, just like the dead versus red that got spun way out of control. We found found the article. ”
“Don’t have to get in touch with anybody. We know that everyone out there is going off of something that’s not right. And there’s no point trying to go and correct everyone and try to get the word out.”
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