Tonya Harding....

Remember Tonya Harding? She was the Olympic figure skater whose now ex-husband whacked her American competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, on the knee in order to injure her so that Tonya could win and take home the gold. Harding, the cigarette-smoking, pickup-driving bad girl, had said she would "kick some butt" in the Olympics. This tale is now a musical opera...

The Nancy Kerrigan -Tonya Harding soap opera is now a musical opera. The figure skating saga that captivated the country 11 years ago -with the ubiquitous video of Kerrigan crying "Why me?" after being attacked and hit in the knee- is the basis for "Nancy and Tonya: The Opera," to be performed at Tufts University (search) next spring.

Well, she is in the news again. After being banned from skating after that lurid incident, she has taken up boxing and most recently, beaten up by her own boyfriend who was admittedly heavily intoxicated on booze.

White trash definitely lead strange lives, don't they!