The 'Secret Weapon' of 'I, Tonya'
The life of Tonya Harding, at least as depicted in the critically acclaimed black comedy I, Tonya, is a tragedy, the result of emotionally and physically abusive relationships in the champion ice skater’s life. When the real-life events played out in the media, though, the public saw a white-trash farce—a shockingly inept scheme to ruin skating princess Nancy Kerrigan’s Olympic dreams hatched by jealous interloper Harding and her low-class husband, Jeff Gillooly
Lurking in the bit in 1994.) The media allowed him to air his version of events: that of an innocent caught in Harding and Gillooly’s nefarious web. It was their idea, he said, to kneecap Kerrigan. Harding and Gillooly always maintained that Eckardt orchestrated the sad-sack assault.
