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Nancy Kerrigan has very little to say about ‘I, Tonya’
Boston Globe ^ | January 11, 2018 | Dan Shaughnessy

Posted on 01/14/2018 4:18:06 PM PST by EdnaMode

Picked-up pieces while wondering whether “bomb cyclone” and “survive the ground” have ever been used in the same sentence . . .

■ For the record, Nancy Kerrigan has not seen “I, Tonya” and doesn’t care to discuss the cinematic softening of Tonya Harding.

“I, Tonya” is a terrific film, perhaps Oscar-worthy, and Harding is on a redemption tour 24 years after her goons kneecapped Kerrigan before the Lillehammer Olympics. Tonya was a guest of honor at the recent Golden Globes and the subject of a TV special that aired on ABC Thursday night. Dollars to doughnuts she’ll be at the Oscars.

This had me wondering what Kerrigan thinks about the whole thing. Kerrigan, after all, was a victim of Harding’s dysfunctional life. The only daughter in a working-class Stoneham family (her father, the late Dan Kerrigan, was a welder who worked three jobs so Nancy would have ice time), Kerrigan delivered one of the clutch performances of all time at Lillehammer in 1994, winning a silver medal just a few weeks after she was attacked by Harding’s gang of nitwits.

I gave her a call this week. (I had a 20-year-old at-a-glance phone book and hoped my “Kerrigan” number was not for Joe Kerrigan.) Incredibly, Nancy answered my call on the first try.

I congratulated her on raising three children with her husband/agent, Jerry Solomon, and maintaining her dignity during this pop-culture-driven redemption of Harding. I asked if Kerrigan wanted to comment on it.

“Not right now,’’ she said. “I really have nothing to say about it. I haven’t seen anything. I haven’t watched anything.

“I’ve been busy. I was at the national [figure skating] championships this week so I didn’t watch the Golden Globes. I haven’t seen the movie. I’m just busy living my life.’’

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abuse; childabuse; itonya; nancykerrigan; tonyaharding
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Haha yeah Tonya was all that!


61 posted on 01/14/2018 6:04:36 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Lizavetta

Ah, thanks. :D


62 posted on 01/14/2018 6:10:56 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Monterrosa-24

What you know about boxing you could write on the head of a pin

and you’d still have room for your name and address.


63 posted on 01/14/2018 6:11:56 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Radagast the Fool

Oksana Baiul two-footed every jump she was supposed to end on one foot.

The judges pretended they didn’t see that.

Kerrigan was robbed.


64 posted on 01/14/2018 6:15:04 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Boardwalk
I forgot about that.

I lived in Stoneham in the 1980s, and after I moved, I kept going to my dentist there for the next 10 years or so, until he retired.

65 posted on 01/14/2018 6:17:27 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: xp38

“The media loves those who are transgressive.”

The media love evil.

“There should be no surprise about this.”

True, but it still rates criticism.


66 posted on 01/14/2018 6:20:24 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: EdnaMode

Nancy Kerrigan has long since moved on with her life. Tonya Harding is stuck in a mental feedback loop, like Hillary Clinton with 2016 election. Harding is in her own little Hell with no way out.


67 posted on 01/14/2018 6:32:45 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: EdnaMode

I thought Kerrigan was attractive enough to be interesting but not gorgeous by any means.


68 posted on 01/14/2018 6:55:08 PM PST by yarddog
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To: EdnaMode

I always thought Kerrigan was nice, if a bit odd, and Harding was rather trailer parkish.


69 posted on 01/14/2018 7:23:02 PM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: EdnaMode
Typical suburban Portland Tonya Harding. Badass chick and Nancy Kerrigan was a little priss “ Whyyyyyyyyyy meeeeeeeeee!”

why not you, Nancy?

70 posted on 01/14/2018 7:38:40 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Boardwalk
That Nancy/Tonya incident was about the only time I ever paid attention to figure skating. Here is a video of Tonya doing that triple axel thing. Was she the only skater to ever do one?

I lived in Melrose at the time which was right next to Stoneham. I remember driving by Nancy's house when there was about 20 news trucks parked outside. It was quite a big deal.

But, Tonya is more my kind of girl. Nancy was one ice-cold princess. I would feel much more comfortable dating Tonya. We'd go bowling together, knock back a few beers and then make out in the parking lot. Can't imagine a night like that with Nancy Kerrigan.

Not that I condone what Tonya's goons did on her behalf. She should have picked her friends better. She should have gone with me!

71 posted on 01/14/2018 7:38:57 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Boardwalk

But neither could do a quintuple axel.
May the first octuple axel win.


72 posted on 01/14/2018 7:46:02 PM PST by TheNext
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Tonya Harding was the trailer park trash.
Drag a hundred dollar bill ...
Jerry Springer with clubbing cousins.


73 posted on 01/14/2018 7:53:26 PM PST by TheNext
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To: SamAdams76

There were a select few women who landed the triple axel in competition. Tanya may have been first or second.


74 posted on 01/14/2018 8:26:10 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: al baby

I guess I’m getting Kerrigan mixed up with poor Monica Seles. I will try harder al baby!


75 posted on 01/14/2018 9:34:57 PM PST by Crucial
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To: RooRoobird20

I remember that Disney parade, but I thought it was at Walt Disney World in Orlando.

Kerrigan was annoyed when they asked her to wear the silver medal around her neck, which she did. She publicly said wearing the medal was “corny.”

Then Nancy appeared on “Saturday Night Live” in a skit and stated that she meant to say that she was “horny.”


76 posted on 01/14/2018 9:57:37 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (SCHLONGED: How Donald Trump Beat My Lying, Marxist Ass and Went On to Win the November Election. HRC)
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To: xp38

She is just unlikeable, no one likes her.


77 posted on 01/15/2018 2:38:02 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: anton
"Why me? Why me? Why me?"

Yeah, I remember thinking her response was weird. The "me" thing, so it was okay if someone else got wacked?

78 posted on 01/15/2018 4:02:38 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: RooRoobird20

Remember at that olympics catty Nancy was caught on camera mocking Baiul’s appearance before the medal ceremony.


79 posted on 01/15/2018 6:22:17 AM PST by LoveUSA (God employs Man's strength; Satan exploits Man's weakness.)
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To: Boardwalk

She wasn’t the first. I believe Midori Ito may have been the first. Midori didn’t quite have the ballet elegance in her programs, but she was quite the jumper.


80 posted on 01/15/2018 8:31:05 AM PST by midnightcat
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