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Inside Nancy Kerrigan's Tragic Real-Life Story


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Nancy Kerrigan is one of the most famous American figure skaters in history, but she knew hardship from a very young age and into her career on the ice. This is her tragic real-life story.

Life didn't wait to start throwing Kerrigan curveballs. When she was just a child, her mother Brenda contracted an extremely rare virus that would have devastating consequences for her family. Her vision started to blur, and by the time the virus was finished with her, she was completely blind in one eye and able to see only a little bit out of the other.

Brenda was grateful that she could still at least see her daughter up close, but her compromised vision meant that she could never watch Nancy competing out on the ice. Instead, she watched from a television in order to gain a closer view. In 1992, she told the New York Times,

"As nice as it is being able to look at television up close, being underneath the stands my husband Dan and I feel we're missing something. We don't see people and that's a loss. It's really lousy for him. It's much more fun being part of a crowd."

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