SARAH MARSHALL WANTS YOU TO RETHINK HISTORY

SARAH MARSHALL FELL HARD FOR TONYA HARDING. “Why do you fall in love with the people you fall in love with?” Marshall asks. “If you research people for a living, you can ask the same question about why you dedicate months or years of your life to a particular human being and trying to understand them.” These days, Marshall is best known as the host of the podcast You’re Wrong About, which aims to debunk misremembered history. But from 2010 to 2014, Marshall was obsessively reading tabloid coverage of the disgraced figure skater who was accused of conspiring with her ex-husband to attack Nancy Kerrigan, her rival in the 1994 Olympics. (Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution but denied being involved in the planning.)

In 2014, Marshall collected her thoughts in a 11,000-plus-word essay for the defending a woman who would become one of as ”