She said she is not worried about telling her son what happened in her past because "my son will know who his mom is and who his dad is when the time is right." "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. During her youth, Harding also hunted, drag raced, and learned automotive mechanics from her father.

If I ever did anything, it was to stick up for him and protect him. [68], On February 1, Gillooly's attorney negotiated a plea bargain in exchange for testimony regarding all involved parties in the attack. She added: "I'm sorry, but this world can sometimes be cruel.". As of September 2020, Tonya Harding has an estimated net worth of more than $100 thousand. Despite scrutiny over her past from the public and some of her DWTS rivals—like Olympian ice skater Adam Rippon—Harding said she's received kind responses from her co-competitors and fans. They moved into a starter home together in 1988 when he worked in distribution at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. "Tonya Harding Remains the Public Enigma", "Lawyer for Skater's Ex-Husband Says He Has Tied Her to Attack", "Harding Pleads Guilty to Obstructing Justice. He's played by Sebastian Stan in the movie. Yet he expressed regret that Harding is often "remembered for what I talked her into doing," meaning allegedly plotting to injure Nancy Kerrigan. She and her first husband, Gillooly, were married from 1990 until 1993. On March 16, 1994, Harding accepted a plea bargain in which she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution. "[1][52] On January 19, Jeff Gillooly surrendered to the FBI. The attack was intended to seriously injure Kerrigan so that she could not compete in the Nationals (Kerrigan was the defending 1993 Champion) nor the Winter Olympics. Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the investigation into Kerrigan's attack, and was subsequently banned from competing in the U.S. for life. Harding made her official debut as a professional boxer — a career she would hold only briefly — in February 2003, losing the undercard match of the Mike Tyson-Clifford Etienne bout in a four-round decision. [137], On March 23, 2004, it was reported that she canceled a planned boxing match against Tracy Carlton in Oakland, California, because of an alleged death threat against her. Harding told Londer she was. "We let my son come, too, because it's a once in a lifetime thing and I wanted him to see it," Harding told Fox News. [1][150][151] During the autumn of 1993, Gillooly was working part-time managing Harding's career and taking real estate classes. Evidemment, on crève d'envie d'en savoir plus après la sortie du cinéma. Debi Thomas was the first African American to win the women's title at the U.S. She stated that by the time she was seven years old, physical and psychological abuse had become a regular part of her life. Figure skater and boxer Tonya Maxine Harding was born in Portland, Oregon, on November 12, 1970. He served time in prison and changed his name to Jeff Stone upon his release in 1995 and took a job as a used car salesman. Harding denied involvement, but she is forever linked with the attack. Tonya Harding pumps her fists as she finishes her gold medal-winning program at the women's championship January 8, 1994. "[109][110][111] The Fox special report was called Breaking the Ice: The Women of '94 Revisited, hosted by James Brown with interviews from Harding, Gillooly, and Kerrigan. Ma fille Tonya a tellement menti dans sa vie qu'elle ne distingue plus le mensonge des réalités. Later in the 2010s, Harding met another man named Joseph Price at a restaurant and fell in love with him. Davison was killed in an unsolved vehicular hit-and-run accident in 1988. [citation needed], In 2002, Harding boxed against Paula Jones on the Fox Network Celebrity Boxing event, winning the fight.