New York Daily News

Tonya: Yeah, I knew of ice plot

- Megan Cerullo

FORMER OLYMPIC figure skater Tonya Harding admitted to knowing “something was up” in the months before the attack on her teammate and rival Nancy Kerrigan in a new interview nearly 25 years after the scandal.

Harding has long maintained she didn’t know about her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and his friend Shawn Eckardt’s plan to bash Kerrigan’s knee with a baton to keep her from competing in the 1994 Olympics.

But in a clip from Harding’s interview with ABC News released Tuesday, she admitted to overhearin­g the pair plotting an attack.

“They were talking about skating and saying, ‘Well, maybe somebody should be taken out so then, you know, she (Harding) can make it,’” she told ABC News.

Kerrigan’s assailant was found to have been hired by Gillooly and Eckardt, who were both sentenced to prison. Harding pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecutio­n, was fined $160,000 and sentenced to three years’ probation. “Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding Story” airs Jan. 11 on ABC.

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