Has there been any theories thrown around about his defense strategy yet? I have some wild speculation to share, help me shoot some holes through it. Last night we randomly decided to watch the I, Tonya movie. Has anyone seen it? (Or read the old news coverage from 20+ years ago?) I rarely watch movies so the timing was really strange.
Tonya’s (ex-?) husband Jeff Galooley asked his friend to write a letter or phone in a death threat to Tonya’s skating rival, Nancy Kerrigan. He just wanted to rattle Nancy and help Tonya’s star rise in time for the next winter Olympics
The friend, who also served as Tonya’s “bodyguard” (and is later shown to want to drum up more business for himself for his largely-imagined “career as a bodyguard and terrorism expert”) takes it up a notch and hires two thugs to kneecap Nancy in another city, and the rest is history.
In the documentary-style interviews that run throughout the movie, Galooley (gah! that name! still hilarious to me...) maintains he only wanted his friend to send a death threat, not break Nancy’s kneecap with a collapsible baton. Nancy’s injury was TV ratings gold and effectively ended Tonya’s skating career
The bumbling operation is portrayed as a comedy of errors from beginning to end, and even though it was a theatrical movie, it was based on a true story that is now part of our national lore.
Could our Crazee Cowboy claim the same type of situation happened here? That he just wanted a third party to upset KB a little bit for whatever reason and the third party either misinterpreted his intent and simply took it too far? And could this possibly be dubbed the I, Tonya Defense? LOL!
moo!