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'I'm always the bad person': Tonya Harding is annoyed that people still think she organized the attack on Nancy Kerrigan

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Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan, right AP Photo/Phil Sandlin, File
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  • Tonya Harding talked to ABC's "Good Morning America" about the attack on her Olympic figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan in 1994.
  • The attack was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, but some people still think she was behind it.
  • She says the media had already convicted her: "I'm always the bad person."
  • Harding says she still cares about people who wrongly think she was behind the attack.
  • "Is it a challenge from the Lord to see how far I can be pushed until I break and become nothing?" Harding said. "You can't push me that far anymore. Because I've been nothing."
  • "It's my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me — and makes me get back off my butt and be something worth being proud of," Harding continued.
  • Harding's life is dramatized in the movie "I, Tonya" and covered in the new ABC documentary "Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding Story."
  • Watch part of Harding's interview below.

 

 

 

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