Karma Gets Tonya!

Twenty-three Years After Tonya Harding’s Involvement in an Infamous Attack on Skating Rival Nancy Kerrigan, Life Couldn’t Be More Different for the Former Ice Queens.

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SPORTS brawls are one thing, but this was something else. In 1994, figure skater Tonya Harding went down in infamy after her first husband, Jeff Gillooly, hatched a failed plot to disable her archrival Nancy Kerrigan by clubbing her in the leg. The shocking incident triggered a media frenzy, and now, 23 years later, memories are sure to come flooding back, thanks to an upcoming movie, I, Tonya, about the once-promising Olympian and her fall from grace. And with Nancy back in the public eye on Dancing With the Stars, a new light is being shed on how both women were forever changed by the scandal — in Tonya’s case, much for the worse.

“To say she hasn’t been able to recover is an understatement,” an insider tells Star. “Tonya’s life is a shambles, and she’ll always be seen as a vindictive villain. As for Nancy, she had legions of sympathetic fans after the attack, and now she’s sure to gain a whole new generation of admirers.”

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