Exactly 20 years have passed since champion figure skater Tonya Harding became infamous after her ex-husband was involved in an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan, and Harding is now saying the media attention just became too much for her.
"Trying to train in front of everyone was so much mania," Harding, now 43, said in an interview with for ESPN Films' "The Price of Gold." "Every time I'd jump they would all flash, I would fall on my face and hurt myself a couple of times. It just started becoming really impossible just to even concentrate on anything."
The media frenzy following the attack on Kerrigan, who was widely favored to win a medal at the Winter Olympics in 1994, brought the spotlight squarely upon Harding, who denied any involvement in the plot to attack Kerrigan to increase her own odds of getting Olympic gold.
Tonya Harding Says Media Spotlight Sank Her After Nancy Kerrigan Attack | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo
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