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God knows, I've thought about Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Unsuitable alliances Curious accent pitched from behind the adenoids Interesting antecedents Links to the Royal Family Column in Heat Original "It" girl Episodes of ill-health and therapeutic confinement Short skirts Difficult moment with Frank Skinner God knows, I've thought about Tara Palmer-Tomkinson Unsuitable alliances Curious accent pitched from behind the adenoids Interesting antecedents Links to the Royal Family Column in Heat Original "It" girl Episodes of ill-health and therapeutic confinement Short skirts. That said, this isn't fiction but real life - and life, as Tonya Harding would be the first to point out, has an endless capacity to surprise *. In fiction, where character is required to be consistent, her story could only end in despair. This one would begin with a gradual erosion of her new-found resolve, followed by more drink, more abusive relationships, and her eventual disappearance in a renewed blizzard of hub-caps, ungentlemanly revelations and off-piste motoring. I want to be a good role model."At the same time, I suspect, she is aware of another possible future - a much worse one; the kind of future which - were her life the pulp novel which it has occasionally resembled - would be the only credible conclusion.

I wanted to be loved, and that made me na?, because I desperately wanted people to like me. Now, if you don't like me - tough shit."Talking as she is now, about her plans, and not the detested past, she visibly relaxes. She hopes to come to Britain in the spring, she says, to box on the same bill as Clinton Woods."My ambition is to be successful in boxing," she says "Then to teach children to box. I am..." Harding pauses, "a good person."It's a year since she skated Does she miss it?"I miss the fun of it I don't miss the competition."Does she dream about it?"No I used to Now, I dream I'm boxing. I've woken up throwing punches, the night before a fight."That could wreak havoc with your social life "I live by myself," she says "I'm being selfish now When I was young, I was dumb.

Now that I'm boxing, I've decided to prove these people are full of crap I know that a person can change Because I have changed. "I mean - what a wuss."When she was a young girl, she says, "I was so closed in I didn't have many friends. I was told that I was fat, that I was ugly; that I wouldn't amount to anything When you hear that all your life, you tend to believe it. What kind of man," Harding continues, "calls 911 because a girl punched him?""A frightened one?""Ah, come on," Harding says. I threw a centre cap at him...""Centre cap?""It goes over the hub of a four-wheel drive.""Is it smaller than a hub-cap?""Right It wasn't like, the size of a Frisbee And then he sat on me, so I punched him in the nose.

"The tabloids distort the facts.""Like when they said you whacked that guy with the hub-cap.""I didn't whack anybody with a hub-cap. My hands are lethal weapons."Now she comes to mention it, one boyfriend did say that she hooks "like Tyson"."As a joke," she says. "I'm not."After she finally finished with Gillooly - she announced their separation during her police interview after the Kerrigan assault - the allegations of violence were repeated in her second marriage to Michael Smith, an engineer, which ended after 90 days, in early 1996.Boxing must make her feel safer."No," she says "Because I know I have to be responsible. And I want to accomplish something in my life."She once said she thought she'd been switched at the hospital."I don't believe," she says, "that I have the same blood type as my parents.""You must be curious about that.""You know what?" Harding says, with a forbidding look. Which parent does she most resemble?"Neither.""How do you know?""Because I have guts And I have pride. Though she was "Daddy's girl", Al was never around when her mother beat her. What if he had been?"Whether he'd have stepped in, I don't know.""You once called him a wuss.""He was a weak person."Her father lives locally but, like almost everyone from her past, apart from her friends Greg and Linda Lewis, Christian songwriters, she no longer sees him.

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