It has been a good week for Thiago Silva.
Not only did the heavy-handed light heavyweight have all the charges against him dropped, which stemmed from a police standoff with Florida cops earlier this year (details), but he also got his job back with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Something Dana White vowed would never happen on the heels of the incident.
During a recent interview on MMA Hour (via MMA Fighting), Silva refused to go into detail of what happened that night, but did finally open up enough to say that all of his recent legal woes were a result of being set up by his ex-wife, who was bitter because he refused to give her any money after he asked for a divorce.
His words:
"Here the thing. I didn't do nothing. She said I pointed a gun at her, I tried to hurt her. I didn't point any gun, I didn't try to hurt her, you know? I wanted divorce, she wanted money, I didn't want to give the money, she set me up, that's the truth. I just wanted the divorce. I didn't want to stay with the girl anymore. She wanted a lot, she asked for a lot of money to sign the divorce. I said no, she set me up.
According to Silva, his stint in jail was spent in isolation and away from the rest of the general population, as he was considered a danger to other inmates.
As far as getting cut by UFC, Silva says he never had any hard feelings toward the company or Dana White, saying that he would have probably done the same thing.
That's it. I think if I was in his position, I would've done the same, because he didn't know what's going on. So I didn't blame him. I had to be patient... because I knew the truth. Like I said, I had to be patient. There was nothing I could do. You gotta be patient. You don't want to think stupid things, you know? If you know the truth, you know the truth is going to come out. It's very simple."
He concluded:
"The truth is they didn't find no proof. I never pointed any gun at my ex-wife, I never tried to hurt (her). Everything she said was a lie. So that's the truth. The state, they couldn't prove another thing, so that's the truth. I'm just glad the truth came out.[The UFC] trust me, they knew I didn't do nothing, so they gave me my job back. So I'm very glad for this."
As Silva put it, all of that is in the past and since his ex-wife fled the country and refused to be cooperative in the case, he is just "happy" to be a free man who wants nothing more than to move one with his new life.
One that will include fatherhood in the near future, as Silva revealed that his new girlfriend is expecting their first child together.