It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

In spite of the publicity Tonya Harding received about being handicapped by asthma Tonya Harding also periodically smoked. On February 1 1994 Gillooly accepted a plea bargain in exchange for his testimony against Harding. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.

In 1991 Tonya Harding won the U. She was the second woman and the first American woman to complete a triple axel jump in competition. She became notorious after her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly conspired with Shawn Eckhardt and Shane Stant to physically assault her skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan at a practice session during the 1994 U.