“I was the victim. Like, that’s my role in this whole thing,” Kerrigan said. “That’s it.”
Nancy Kerrigan has better things to do right now than see “I, Tonya” — but she does want to remind the world of one thing.
“I’ve been busy. I was at the national [figure skating] championships this week so I didn’t watch the Golden Globes. I haven’t seen the movie. I’m just busy living my life,” Kerrigan, 48, told the Boston Globe in an interview released Thursday, adding, “I was the victim. Like, that’s my role in this whole thing. That’s it.”
When asked if she was bothered by the film’s portrayal of Harding as a victim, Kerrigan sighed.
“At this point, it’s so much easier and better to just be… it’s not really part of my life,” she said.
The film, which stars Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding, presents Harding not as the villain in the infamous Kerrigan kneecapping, but instead as the victim of an abusive mother and husband, Jeff Gillooly, whom the flick blames entirely for the attack.
Harding has accompanied Robbie on red carpets and to Sunday’s Golden Globes as some seem to be embracing the movie’s version as fact.
“I knew that something was up,” Harding told ABC News earlier this month of Gillooly’s alleged plan to whack Kerrigan out of the competition. “I did, however, overhear them talking about stuff, where, ‘Well, maybe we should take somebody out so we can make sure she gets on the team.’ I go, ‘What the hell are you talking about?’”
Another ice-skating icon unimpressed with the movie is Johnny Weir, who took to Twitter on Tuesday to express his disgust at what he perceived as glorification of Harding and a mockery of Kerrigan’s suffering.
“I am so over the glamorization of a villain simply because she was born on the ‘wrong side of the tracks,’” he snapped. “While her upbringing may have been tragic, athletes come from all walks of life and succeed based on merit, not assault. I won’t applaud her and I stand for Nancy.”
