Simone Giertz

I think as the older I get, the more concerned I am about the health impacts of the sport and of the people who are practicing it on an elite level.

And I'm just not as, cannot as 100% as cheer as somebody beats somebody else up into a pulp.

I didn't realize I was going to get kicked out.

So it was Alexander Gustafson was going to fight John Jones.

And he had just, he was kind of like this golden boy in Sweden.

And he had just come out to the press that he had actually been to jail for violent crimes.

And all I wanted to ask, all I asked was, what was the reason that you wanted to bring that forward now?

And apparently that was completely like blacklisted, but I hadn't gotten briefed about it at all.

And the PR man, head of PR of the UFC was just yelling at me and they kicked me out of Grand Hotel in Stockholm.

And I immediately called my mom and I was like, mom, you will not believe what just happened.

I got kicked out of an interview at Grand Hotel.

Because in the 90s, she got kicked out of an interview with Mel Gibson from the Grand Hotel.

So that's like runs in the family.

So I was just like, yeah, no, it was just this weird generational skip where we both got in kicked out of interviews at the same hotel.

I mean, I moved to China when I was 16 and I went there as an exchange student.

So that is before I had ever touched upon those things.

And it was... And then I went back when I was 19 to work as an English teacher for a little bit.

It was...

It was incredibly challenging to be there.

I mean, I was like, now when I look at 16-year-olds, I'm like, you're a baby.