Sha’Carri Richardson reacts after the first round of the 200-meter female semi-final during the athletics meeting of the American championships in Eugene, Oregon., Sunday August 3, 2025. (AP photo / Abbie Parr)
Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson addressed his recent arrest of domestic violence in a video on social networks and apologized to his boyfriend Christian Coleman.
Richardson published a video on her Instagram account on Monday evening in which she said that she put herself in a “compromised situation”. She apologized to Coleman on Tuesday morning.
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“I love him and for him, I cannot apologize enough,” wrote the defending world champion of the 100 meters in all the upper letters on Instagram, adding that his excuses “should be just as noisy” as his “actions”.
“To Christian, I love you and I am really sorry,” she wrote.
Richardson was arrested on July 27 for an offense of domestic violence in the fourth degree for allegedly assaulted Coleman at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It was reserved for South Correctional Entity to monks, Washington, for more than 18 hours.
His arrest took place a few days before courting the 100 meters at the American championships in Eugene, Oregon.
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In the video, Richardson said that she was practicing “self-reflection” and refuses to “flee but face everything that comes to me.”
According to the police report, an airport officer was informed by a supervisor of the transport security administration of a disturbance between Richardson and his boyfriend, Coleman, champion of 100 meters 2019.
The officer examined the images of the camera and observed that Richardson held out his hand with his left arm and grabbed Coleman’s backpack and pulled it. Richardson then seemed to enter Coleman’s path with Coleman trying to move around her. Coleman was pushed into a wall.
Later in the report, he said that Richardson seemed to launch an object on Coleman, the TSA indicating that he was perhaps headphones.
The officer said in the report: “I was told that Coleman did not want to participate more in the investigation and I refused to be a victim.”
A message was left with Coleman from the Associated Press.
Richardson wrote that Coleman “entered my life and gave me more than a relationship but a better understanding of unconditional love of what I have experienced in my past.”
She won the 100 at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest and finished with the money at the Paris Games last summer. She also helped the 4 × 100 relay to an Olympic gold.
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She did not participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 following a positive marijuana test with American Olympic trials.
