Rutgers Roommate Does Not Feel Responsible For Tyler Clementi's Suicide, 'He Had Bigger Problems In His Life'
March 22 2012, Published 7:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
The former Rutgers student convicted on charges of spying and bullying his gay roommate and driving him to suicide claims that it was not his fault that Tyler Clementi jumped off New York’s George Washington Bridge.
“Even though I wasn’t the one who caused him to jump off the bridge, I did do things wrong and I was stupid about a lot of stuff,” Dharun Ravi, 20, revealed in an interview with ABC’s 20/20.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, it took a jury two days of deliberations to find Ravi guilty on all the major counts in connection with Clementi’s February 2010 death, he now faces up to ten years in prison.
Despite the resounding success by the prosecution in the case, he doesn't think he is to blame for Clementi’s premature death though, claiming that what he learned about Tyler during the case convinced him that the 18-year-old’s suicide wasn’t prompted by the webcam footage of him having sex with another man.
“The more and more I found out, it would be kind of obnoxious of me to think that I could have this profound effect on him,” Ravi claimed.
“After all this time and reading his conversations and how and what he was doing before, I really don’t think he cared at all. I feel like I was an insignifica