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Janay Rice: Ravens gave us 'a general script' for news conference

Published Dec. 1, 2014 4:49 p.m. ET

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The Baltimore Ravens again look bad when it comes to the Ray Rice saga despite releasing the running back months ago.

Rice was reinstated last week by the NFL after being suspended for striking his wife in the face during a dispute in an Atlantic City casino.

With the news of Rice winning an appeal and becoming eligible to play again, the running back and his wife, Janay, are making the media rounds. Janay appeared Monday on NBC's "TODAY" show where she talked about the traumatic ordeal. One interesting tidbit centered around a now-infamous news conference held in May by the Ravens prior to releasing Rice. Janay took plenty of heat for apologizing for her role in the situation, as did the Ravens for tweeting the apology, and she's now claiming the Ravens suggested that she do so.

"I was ready to do anything that was going to help the situation," Rice told NBC's Matt Lauer. "... Help the way we looked in the media, help his image, help obviously his career. They told us earlier that week we would do the press conference, and I was fine with it."

Janay added that the Ravens suggested she apologize, adding the team gave her and Rice "a general script."

She did say, however, that she wasn't without guilt.

"I was basically -- not doing what I was told, but at the same time, I didn't think it was completely wrong for me to apologize because at the end of the day, I got arrested, too. So I did something wrong, too. Not taking any light off of what Ray did because I agree with everybody else. It was wrong."

See more in the video below.