Former Florida State quarterback De'Andre Johnson apologized for his actions in a confrontation with a woman last month that ultimately resulted in misdemeanor battery charges against the freshman and his dismissal from the Seminoles football team.

Sitting with his mother, Pamela Jones, in an interview that aired Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America, Johnson said that he wished he walked away from the situation.

"Well, you're right. There is no explanation for that," he told interviewer Michael Strahan. "I totally should have walked away."

Johnson said it "kills" him inside to know that he hurt his mother, whom he said didn't raise him like that. Jones said she cried for three days in light of the news.

Asked what her initial reaction was when the incident happened, Jones said: "I wanted to jump through the phone and wring his neck."

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