Christina Ricci hits out at Jimmy Fallon for interviewing Conor McGregor: ‘Shame on you’
Yellowjackets star Christina Ricci has condemned Jimmy Fallon for hosting Conor McGregor on The Tonight Show.
The Irish mixed martial arts fighter appeared on Fallon’s talk show last week to promote his return to the UFC at UFC 329.
On her Instagram Story Monday, Ricci, 46, reshared a post slamming Fallon for giving McGregor a platform following his 2024 sexual assault trial.
“Conor McGregor raped a woman so brutally that the EMT who saw her commented on the severity of her bruising,” the post, originally shared by entrepreneur Adam McRae, read, in part.
“Why the absolute f*** is this piece of human garbage being given a platform on Jimmy Fallon’s show? Shame on you, Jimmy.”
The Independent has contacted McGregor’s representative for comment.
Last year, the MMA fighter lost his appeal of a civil jury’s finding in favour of a woman who had accused him of rape.
The woman successfully sued McGregor in a civil court over an incident in which he was alleged to have “brutally raped and battered” her in a penthouse at a south Dublin hotel in December 2018.
A paramedic who examined the woman testified that she had not seen such bruising on a patient in a long time.
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The jury found that McGregor, who told the court he had consensual sex with the woman, was civilly liable for assault.
The woman was awarded 248,603 euros in damages and McGregor was also ordered to pay about 1.3 million euros in legal costs following the November 2024 trial.
McGregor continues to deny all allegations against him relating to the case.
On July 11, McGregor will fight Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 329 in Las Vegas. The bout will be the Irishman’s first in five years, after he suffered a broken leg in 2021, and it is a rematch 13 years in the making.
McGregor, a former dual-weight champion, was scheduled to return in 2024, but a broken toe ruled him out of a bout with Michael Chandler on two weeks’ notice.
In October, it was announced that McGregor was serving a backdated ban over several missed drug tests. The ban was backdated to September 2024, however, freeing up McGregor to return this March or later.
During his prime, McGregor was one of the most feared and exciting fighters in the UFC roster. He took a break from MMA in 2017 and fought boxer Floyd Mayweather in the American’s discipline, losing via stoppage. A UFC return in 2018 brought a submission loss to bitter rival Khabib Nurmagomedov, and McGregor has fought just three times since.
