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Nancy Kerrigan’s Mom Blasts ‘Disgusting’ Tonya Harding Biopic

Says daughter’s nemesis is no hero – ‘She committed a crime!’

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Nancy Kerrigan's enraged mother has iced Tinseltown’s treatment of her daughter’s Olympic nemesis, figure skater Tonya Harding — blasting it as “disgusting!”

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In a world exclusive interview, Brenda Kerrigan (left) told The National ENQUIRER the biopic, “I, Tonya,” isn’t “funny” — and slammed the film’s subject as a liar and a lawbreaker.

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“I think it’s quite disgusting that they put Tonya up like she’s some sort of hero when, in my opinion, she committed a crime!” declared Brenda. “And after 24 years, she has all of a sudden decided, ‘Ohhh, I think I remember they talked about taking someone out,’ the Kerrigan matriarch said.

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“Maybe in 24 more years she’ll tell the whole truth," said Brenda, whose daughter recovered to win the Olympic silver medal and, two decades later, compete on "Dancing with the Stars." "I think she should have admitted it a long time ago.”

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Margot Robbie earned an Oscar nod as the hardscrabble skater, and Allison Janney (left) won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Tonya’s mom. But for Brenda, the events portrayed in the film — including hit man Shane Stant’s vicious kneecapping of  Nancy — remain sore spots.

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“It was an extremely upsetting time,” Brenda, shown here with Nancy, her husband and son in 2001. told The ENQUIRER from her Boston home. “I don’t want to go there because I will start crying. It was all about greed. My daughter would probably be mad at me for saying all this, but it’s how I feel!”

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Four people went to jail for the January 1994 attack — Tonya’s goonish ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly; her bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt; getaway driver Derrick Smith and future pot-dealer Stant (left, reviewing the attack's aftermath in a recent video).

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Tonya, shown here with director Craig Gillespie and Margot, pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecution of the attackers, earning three years probation, community service and a $100,000 fine. She denied foreknowledge of the attack, but later confessed she suspected Gillooly was hatching a plot.

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Brenda added: “I heard they made the movie funny, but I don’t think it’s funny. There’s no reason for me to see it. It’s all stuff that I know.”

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