Harding dodged the inquiries and insisted that she was only there to promote the positive message of her biopic, I, Tonya, which stars Margot Robbie.
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January at the arthouse is when the platformed releases that opened in NY and Los Angeles in December (to qualify for the Academy Awards) start trickling down to the regional markets, like Salt Lake City. “Obviously, it doesn’t work that way; and therefore I’ve chosen to terminate our business relationship”. When Harding entered the room on the TV special, Kerrigan was visibly irritated, and when Tonya apologized “for being in the wrong place at the wrong time around the wrong people”, Kerrigan did not respond. The man was later found to have been hired by Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and his friend, Shawn Eckardt.
At Thursday night’s Critics’ Choice Awards, host Olivia Munn parodied “I, Tonya”, and Kerrigan took to Twitter to voice her approval of Munn’s impression of her.
She is the rare figure skater to be sent to not one, but two Olympic Games – the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, followed by the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway. January 12, 1994: Eckardt confesses to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, implicating Harding, Gillooly, and two of Eckardt’s friends.
She continued, “It is weird, that’s for sure”.
Kerrigan is not interested in discussing the past, either. “I haven’t watched anything”, Kerrigan told The Boston Globe.
“I was the victim”.
“She wasn’t embraced for her individuality enough”, Janney told USA TODAY in a red-carpet interview. After the Olympics, Kerrigan was also recorded at a Disney parade complaining that the event was “the corniest thing [she had] ever done”, which added to the tarnishing of her reputation. If pressed for the information, most would say it was rival skater Tonya Harding, and with good reason: Harding stood to gain the most if Kerrigan went down, and she seemed to fit the profile of someone who’d carry out a cheap hit on the competition. “And I remember telling them, I go, ‘What the hell are you talking about?” As a writer for the National Sports Daily, I covered the 1991 national championships when Harding landed a triple axel, and in 1993 I became lead sports columnist for the Oregonian. As an audience member, I’d prefer to know that. “That was why I chose to do this movie”. As for the steak knife, which Harding says was hurled at her from about 10 feet away, Golden retorts: “Why would I throw a steak knife at anybody?”
To put it mildly, Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly only comes across as one of the villains in the movie, and he pales in comparison to the Mommy Dearest performance that Allison Janney gives as Golden, presenting her as an allegedly abusive, emotionally distant stage mother with a parrot bizarrely perched on her shoulder during interviews.
“No I did not know anything prior”, Harding answered. “I didn’t abuse any of my children”.
Golden later disputed the claim that Harding was brought up in a bad environment. We were never trailer trash.
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Golden said the incident didn’t happen. We both have wonderful lives.
