Ronda Rousey recently appeared on NewsNation to promote her memoir, “Our Fight.” During the interview, Rousey described an incident that happened between her and Drew Gulak. Rousey said that Gulak grabbed the string of her sweatpants while waiting to speak to WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H in the writers’ room. She said that no one around her reacted to it, and they took it for granted.
“God, I’ve forgot his name. Ah! I can’t believe I’ve forgot this guy’s name. It’ll come back to me, but I was standing there, and this guy that I was barely an acquaintance with grabbed the string of my sweatpants as I’m walking by, and I wasn’t even looking at him, and I looked down the hall, and I was like, This guy grabs the string of my sweatpants, and nobody else reacts as if this is abnormal, and he grabs it, and he starts going down the hall, and I’m like, ‘What the f–k was that? Why are you grabbing the string of my sweatpants?’
Rousey said that she later confronted Gulak. Rousey told Gulak that if he ever did that kind of thing to another woman or herself again, then he would’ve been in trouble.
“Drew Gulak! That’s who it was, yes. Yeah, I went and confronted him later, and I was like, ‘If I ever hear about you putting your hands on any other woman like this or doing anything like this to me ever again, we’re gonna have a problem, and he was like, ‘No, no, no, you know, I’m glad that you said something to me.’
Rousey said that the incident left her with a negative impression of WWE’s culture.
“He just really backpedaled and everything like that, but it just put a really sour taste in my mouth about the culture there and what’s considered acceptable, and how to touch and treat the women in the hallways, in anywhere but backstage.”
Drew Gulak has responded to the allegation.