Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding is selling a book, called "The Tonya Tapes" in which she offers, for the first time, an account of why she didn't go to the authorities in 1994 when her rival Nancy Kerrigan was injured in an attack orchestrated by her husband, Jeff Gillooly. Here she is explaining it on Today:
According to Harding, she planned to go to the FBI to report Gillooly, but Gillooly and two other men then kidnapped her, held her at gunpoint, raped her and told her that they would kill her if she didn't help them lie to the authorities.
Today host Meredith Vieira responded to that with the obvious question: Why has it taken her 14 years to tell anyone about this incident? Harding answered that she was ashamed. I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of people watching the interview will conclude that this claim is nothing more than a publicity stunt aimed at selling books.
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Tonya Harding Sells Bizarre Tale of Rape, Kidnapping Orchestrated by Jeff Gillooly
Posted May 15th 2008 12:15PM by Michael David Smith
Filed under: Olympics, Women's Sports, Winter Sports
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1. Oh Puh-lease! What a liar!
She needs to just marry OJ Simpson and disappear already! Everyone knows he has a thing for blondes......
Posted at 2:10PM on May 15th 2008 by Rick
2. I think Tanya should elope with Roger Clemens. They are both egocentric meatheads that cannot stand being out of the public eye.
Tanya could rough Fat Boy up too and inject him with some roids.
Posted at 4:05PM on May 16th 2008 by bigflyer