After more than 30 years of their story being told and retold of the attack that changed figure skating forever, Nancy Kerrigan is reflecting on the lasting aftermath of the scandal that linked her name to Tonya Harding’s in sports history—and sharing the one thing—an apology from Harding—she never got after the explosive incident.
While practicing for the Winter Olympics in Detroit, MI, on Jan. 6, 1994, Kerrigan was struck in the legs with a metal baton at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, an assault later tied to competing skater Harding's husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. Though Kerrigan ultimately recovered to win silver at the Winter Olympics weeks later, the scandal’s cultural impact has endured for decades.
While audiences often gravitate toward stories of rivals resolving their conflict, that was never the case for Kerrigan and Harding. During a 2017 interview with ABC, Kerrigan recounts seeing Harding at a 1998 event, but the two never spoke. In fact, she says Harding never directly apologized, to which Kerrigan said, “Does it matter, at this point?"
The skaters' story had resurfaced in the film I, Tonya, which starred Margot Robbie as Harding, but at the time, Kerrigan wasn't focused on the past. “My job is being with my kids after school and asking them how their day was," Kerrigan said in 2017. Kerrigan went on to write a children's book and continued to skate, performing as recently as 2025's Holiday Spectacular on Ice in New York. She also joined the cast of Dancing With the Stars Season 24.
Harding's life wasn't as easy. She and Gillooly released a sex tape after they had divorced, and she had quite a few brushes with law enforcement, which included arrests and a short stint in jail. She ultimately became a mother and juggled various gigs, including boxing, season 16 of Worst Cooks in America: Celebrity Edition, and competing on Dancing With the Stars.
"I'm surprised that anyone is still interested in the incident from 30 years ago, especially considering there are so many problems in our country which concern us all, and I was only charged with hindering prosecution for not coming forward soon enough," Harding told PEOPLE in 2024 in reflection of the 1994 attack.
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