NBC documentary: Kerrigan opens up about attack; Carillo says hard to believe Harding didn’t know

In January, ESPN did a 30 for 30, The Price of Gold, on the infamous Tonya-Nancy affair from 1994. However, there was one thing missing. No Nancy Kerrigan interview.

Kerrigan, who is working for NBC during the Olympics, naturally gave Mary Carillo and  the network a sitdown for its documentary. The one-hour film airs Sunday at 7 p.m. ET just prior to the closing ceremonies.

Kerrigan did meet with the media following a screening of the film Friday in Sochi. Richard Deitsch of SI.com reports:

Kerrigan said that Carillo and Grossi had attempted to get a sit-down interview with her for years and she finally agreed last year. The NBC staffers started working on the project last summer and the pair did two long sit-downs with Kerrigan.

“I trusted them enough to portray my family and the history of this because it is very complicated and long,” Kerrigan said. “It’s 20 years later. I’ve moved on. I don’t revisit this on a daily basis. It was hard at first to sit down and talk for five hours straight and to think about all this. It’s a little surreal to watch your life and to think, ‘That’s me. It’s almost like a whole other person at this point. I have moved on. Things in my life are different. But it is emotional to watch your own life in front of you.”

And there was this from Carillo:

Carillo said she believed Kerrigan had been turned into something she wasn’t by the media, especially the tabloid press. “Someone slugs her on the knee and six weeks later she comes that close to a gold medal,” Carillo said. “All these years later I thought that got lost in the sauce.

Carillo also mentioned she was surprised that Harding remains so defiant. “She claims she was not complicit in it,” Carillo said. “Did I believe her? For me personally after reading everything … it strains credulity for me that she claimed that she didn’t know. But she is defiant. She is standing by her story.”