LaVona «Sandy» Golden, the estranged mother of disgraced Olympic skater Tonya Harding, is disputing her daughter's allegations of
childhood abuse, which have received new attention
after the release of the darkly
comic biopic I, Tonya.
The son of a popular actor and a loving but mentally ill mother, he spent his early
childhood backstage in the erotic and
comic world of burlesque and went on,
after early struggles, to achieve extraordinary success in his profession.