Florida Doctor Anjali Ramkissoon Describes Her
Confrontation With
Uber Driver. Anjali Ramkissoon opens up about the viral video that shows her violently confronting an Uber driver.
Begin with that young doctor at the center of that violent confrontation with an Uber driver. Anjali Ramkissoon is here to talk about what happened for the first time since that video went viral viewed more than 5 million times and we'll get to that after this from
ABC's gio Benitez.
Miami Doctor Who Brawled with Uber Driver in
Viral Video Says She’s ‘
Ashamed’
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Reporter:
It's the video that spread like wildfire. I have lost my mind. Anjali Ramkissoon is a fourth year neurology resident at one of Miami's most
TRE press teens hospitals but she was belligerent last week. I'm a five foot girl that weighs
100 pounds. I'm getting really belligerent.
Caught on camera with an Uber driver. It happened in the heart of downtown Miami.
Call 911 please. Ramkissoon thinks this is her driver. It isn't. He's waiting to pick up someone else. But still she demands he drive her after things get physical and she's pushed to the ground, she gets into the car and does this. Another saying, I wouldn't go anywhere near the facility for medical care if she continues to work there. And another saying, she should be arrested and charged with assault. But the driver speaking to local station
WTVJ is not pressing charges. She was erratic. She was like screaming, cursing, you know, calling me names. Reporter: Ramkissoon now on administrative leave from the hospital while it conducts an internal investigation and Uber has suspended her.
For "Good morning
America," gio Benitez,
ABC news,
New York. Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon joins us now. That video is so hard for all of us to watch. I can't imagine what it's like for you. I see a person that is not me, that's -- I'm ashamed. I still can't watch the entire video. Every time someone brings it up or tries to ask me what was happening at this
point, I can't. So what was happening? I was really -- a lot had happened that day actually. The events leading up to that point, my father had been placed in the hospital and just minutes prior to that altercation with the Uber driver, my boyfriend and I of two years had just broken up so he went home, I was there by myself. You guys have been drinking.
Yes, and I knew that I had had a few drinks so I decided -- actually I had driven to that place that night. But I did not want to drive my car home so I left my car there and that was why I was trying to get the Uber to get home.
Everything you said sounds pretty bad but you know it's no excuse, right? There is absolutely no excuse for my actions. I am ashamed. I am so sorry. I have hurt so many people with this. My family, my friends, my job. The Uber driver, no one deserves to be treated that way and that is -- that's not me. Did you apologize to him. I did. So we actually settled while we were out there -- I paid for the damages and I apologized to him and he accepted my apology and I'm so thankful that he did not press charges, that he did not have me arrested. I'm grateful. Has anything like this happened before? You did seem to snap there. I did. I was extremely stressed out that day. It was probably one of the worst days of my life and I was caught at my lowest moment and nothing like this has ever happened. It was completely out of character.
Anyone that knows me, they see that video and they say that's not you and it really just -- it's not me. Any part of yourself see yourself doing this and get a handle on it and say, wait,
I've lost control here? You know what, hindsight is
20/20. Every time I look back at it I say could have, should have, would have and in the moment I was just so angry, I wasn't really thinking and if I could take it back, I would. You've invested a lot in your career. I have. As a doctor. Now suspended.
Yes. You saw some of the comments in gio's piece saying this person should not be a doctor. What do you say to them? I had a bad night. I made a huge mistake. The biggest mistake of my life and that person is not me and, yes, I'm on administrative leave from my job right now, but at the same time, this is not just affected my career it's also affected my family, it's affected my personal life.
I get it. I did something extremely horrible and I'm extremely sorry for it. But I've also been receiving horrible messages on cyberspace, the cyberbullying, my family was targeted. Their address was leaked. I received messages telling me I should kill myself. That I should have been raped that night. I don't -- I think it's ridiculous and I am here to own up to what I did. I'm taking responsibility for it and I'm asking for forgiveness. How do you make it good and get your job back? I think the best thing at this point is to just take responsibility for what I've done. I did it.
And I'm ashamed of what I did.
- published: 27 Jan 2016
- views: 73875