Former UFC Champion Ronda Rousey opened up on The Ellen Show and admitted that she considered suicide in the immediate aftermath of her loss to Holly Holm in November.

Rousey was undefeated in her MMA career before the Bantamweight title fight between the two in Australia and she told host Ellen Degeneres the loss shocked her to the core.

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Video from The Ellen Show.

"Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was sitting in the corner and was like, 'What am I anymore if I'm not this?’” Rousey said. “Sitting there thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I'm like, 'I'm nothing. What do I do anymore? No one gives a s**t about me anymore without this’.”

Catching sight of her partner, UFC fighter Travis Browne, brought her back to reality.

“I looked up and saw my man, Travis, was standing there I'm looking up at him and was just like, 'I need to have his babies. I need to stay alive’.”

Before the defeat Rousey was one of the most high-profile stars of UFC and was also developing a second career as an actress. The 29-year-old is now fully focused on the future and reclaiming her title.

She has said that she wants to get back in the octagon in 2016, with UFC boss Dana White suggesting November as a possible date for her comeback fight.

“I did a lot of thinking on, why did this happen? I do believe all the best things come from the worst things,” she explained. “The worst things result in the absolute best things. I was trying to think, what is the reason for this and what my actual purpose is -- and maybe just winning all the time isn't what's best for everybody.

"I felt like maybe my role is, everyone has their moment of picking themselves off the floor. I've gone through several of mine, but no one had ever seen me go through it.

"Maybe I just needed to be that example of picking myself off the floor for everyone.

“Maybe that's what I'm meant for.”