Shamed former U.S. skating champion-turned-reality TV star TONYA HARDING has penned a tell-all book in a bid to show the public she doesn't deserve her `bad girl' tag.
In The Tonya Tapes, Harding reveals she was beaten by her exhusband, Jeff Gillooly, and knew nothing about his 1994 clubbing attack on skating rival Nancy Kerrigan, which she was accused of plotting.
Kerrigan was forced to pull out of trials for the 1994 Winter Olympics as a result of her injuries, but was allowed to compete in Lillehammer, Norway, where she won a silver medal.
The skater also writes about her abusive childhood in the book, claiming she was raped - and reveals she has attempted suicide. But she insists the reason she wrote the book was to clear up mistruths and misconceptions about her.
She explains, "I just wanted people to know me for me and not make judgments against me, like, how you see me on TV (sic).
"It's always the black and white interviews, it's not who I am personally."
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