actsnoblemartin
05-16-2008, 05:32 PM
Life wasnt perfect :(-, feel sorry for me
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http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-tonyatalks&prov=ap&type=lgns
Harding tells harrowing story in new book
By BARRY WILNER, AP Sports Writer May 15, 6:58 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP)—The memories are painful for Tonya Harding, and somehow liberating.
They fill a new book, “The Tonya Tapes,” in which she speaks frankly, if a bit confusingly, about the Tonya and Nancy scandal. She writes about being abused as a child, contemplating suicide, having a gun placed to her head and being raped. She says she paid a price for not fitting the mold of American figure skaters.
The book is a compilation of interviews with author Lynda D. Prouse conducted over eight years.
“So many people do not have a voice and they should be heard,” Harding told The Associated Press during an interview on Thursday. “I wanted people to see me and know me and I wanted to help other people not go through the things I’ve gone through.”
What the 37-year-old Harding says she has gone through could fill a year’s worth of soap operas. Long before she was a national champion (1991) and two-time Olympian, she says she was molested as a child, looked down upon by skating federations and led astray through bad relationships. She admits to “not being real educated” and “naive” in her dealings with people.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-tonyatalks&prov=ap&type=lgns
Harding tells harrowing story in new book
By BARRY WILNER, AP Sports Writer May 15, 6:58 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP)—The memories are painful for Tonya Harding, and somehow liberating.
They fill a new book, “The Tonya Tapes,” in which she speaks frankly, if a bit confusingly, about the Tonya and Nancy scandal. She writes about being abused as a child, contemplating suicide, having a gun placed to her head and being raped. She says she paid a price for not fitting the mold of American figure skaters.
The book is a compilation of interviews with author Lynda D. Prouse conducted over eight years.
“So many people do not have a voice and they should be heard,” Harding told The Associated Press during an interview on Thursday. “I wanted people to see me and know me and I wanted to help other people not go through the things I’ve gone through.”
What the 37-year-old Harding says she has gone through could fill a year’s worth of soap operas. Long before she was a national champion (1991) and two-time Olympian, she says she was molested as a child, looked down upon by skating federations and led astray through bad relationships. She admits to “not being real educated” and “naive” in her dealings with people.