Ronda Rousey lived in this disgusting Venice house before she was a star
If you've ever lived in a truly crappy domicile, you know the struggle.
Stuff stops working. The landlord doesn't care that said stuff stopped working. It's just you, your friends and the mold growing in the shower. Duct tape and nails have slowly become one and the same.
If any of this strikes a chord with you, just know: Ronda Rousey knows the struggle.
As it's revealed in her upcoming documentary In Her Father's Eyes, the former UFC champion began her mixed martial arts career while living in a house in Venice Beach, California, that was less like a house and more like an overgrown, dish-shed.
USA Today Sports' Martin Rogers got a sneak peak of footage from the film, which is slated to be released at an undetermined time later this year. The film shows a pre-stardom Rousey giving an MTV Cribs-ish tour of her pad in 2011. It's part home, part giant Chia Pet.
"I'm surprised we didn't invent a new strain of cholera," Rousey said at the time, standing in the middle of a dirty kitchen. "They are tearing the house down right after we move out. As soon we found out we were like, 'Well, who gives a [expletive]?'...it was already kind of hellish when I moved in."
After heard about the house's fate, Rousey sensibly began using the walls as a message board. No one's getting their damage deposit back anyways, might as well have fun.
"I wonder what our garbage disposal thinks of us?" Rousey wrote on one wall.
I can identify with thisâperhaps not to the extent of squalor that Rousey dealt with, but I've had conversations with roommates based around the question "Has that part of the ceiling always been falling off?"
So yeah. Always good to see a fellow hovel-dweller doing well.
Dan is on Twitter. He misses the days when he woke up to the sound of his upstairs neighbors wrestling a bear.
