Tonya Harding’s childhood friend isn’t buying Harding’s recent admission to ABC News that she “knew something was up” before the infamous 1994 Nancy Kerrigan attack plotted by her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.
Instead, Jenna Halase of Portland, Oregon, who was friends with Harding while she began dating Gillooly, exclusively told Radar she believes the former figure skater knew “everything” about the attack.
“I know she knew,” said Halase, who first met Harding at Milwaukie High School in Oregon. “There’s no way she lived in a house with Jeff and didn’t know what he was planning because that’s how they were.”
Harding taunted Kerrigan as a teen years before the 1994 attack, Radar reported.
Halase claimed her “inseparable” friendship with Harding started to change once Gillooly came into the picture. The couple was possessive of one another, she said.
“They were both extremely jealous of each other and never wanted to be out of each other’s sight,” Halase continued. “They always knew what was going on.”
Harding began sabotaging her competition during practices in high school, Radar reported.
Harding married Gillooly at the age of 19. They divorced in 1993. Harding’s childhood pal said that even at the beginning of their relationship, she witnessed the two plotting against others together.
“Tonya would brag that they were Bonnie and Clyde,” the former friend explained. “She knew everything he was doing and he knew everything she was doing. That was the kind of relationship they had.”
Halase said she witnessed conversations between the couple that were questionable then – and still are.
“They were going to make sure that anything and everything they could possibly do to make sure she was number one they would do,” Halase said. “They said that in front of me.”
Harding ultimately denied having any involvement in the attack but pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecution. She was sentenced to three years’ probation and 500 hours community service.
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