This video and the picture below were my only clear memories I have from the Tonya Harding / Nancy Kerrigan saga profiled on the 30-for-30 The Price of Gold last night. I don't remember the poor girl from Detroit vs. the wealthy figure skating princess storyline, but I was only 5 years old at the time. While Kerrigan turned down the interview request, Harding was more than willing to try to set the record straight. "Try" being the operative word. Every word that came out of her mouth seemed less credible than the one before. It was morbidly entertaining to see her continue to dig her own grave by offering up rhetorical questions like, "Why would I do this?"
Her stupidity can't be understated. She and her then-husband, Jeff Gillooly, paid for all of the hit squad's expenses on a Visa. She decided to leave Gillooly in a pathetic attempt to distance herself from the media circus, which obviously led to him throwing her even further under the bus. In a most ironic twist at the end of the doc, Harding calls Kerrigan a whiny brat for getting impatient while waiting for Oksana Baiul to take the podium for what many believe should have been Kerrigan's gold medal ceremony. To witness someone with so little self-awareness is breathtaking.
PS - I forgot how 90's hot Nancy Kerrigan really was. I'm excited to see how nice the years have been next month in Sochi.
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