Tonya Harding Cries After Her Son Watches Her on ‘DWTS’ as Two More Celebs Go Home
Notorious Tonya Harding has said she’s chosen to keep her son out of the public eye because people can sometimes be “cruel.”
But on Monday night, that all changed as the boy and her husband were audience members Monday at “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes.”
Harding performed solidly on the show again, falling into a tie for third for her two dances—the individual and team performances for which she earned a cumulative 66 out of 80 points.
Meanwhile fellow ice skaters Mirai Nagasu and Adam Rippon were in first place with their two-dance total. The show’s two basketball stars, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Arike Ogunbowale, both got their walking papers on the double elimination night.
Last week, Harding’s son Gordon watched his mom on “DWTS” from home, but this week, Harding told Fox News that he actually attended the show with her husband, Joseph Price. “We let my son come, too, because it’s a once in a lifetime thing and I wanted him to see it,” she explained.
“Last week, he watched me at home on TV and he goes, ‘Yeah, mom was pretty. Yeah, mom, I love you.’
“But today, he told me that he was proud of me,” Harding said, getting teary-eyed over her son’s “week two” review from the audience.
“This truly is a fresh start and I’m having a wonderful time,” Harding also told reporters with partner Sasha Farber by her side.
She conceded that “everyone has their own opinion” about her past, “but for the most part, everybody has been totally gracious and rooting for us and it’s really exciting….I’m literally working my butt off.”
Harding and Farber got raves as previous “DWTS” winner Rashad Jennings acted as guest judge alongside regulars Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Carrie Ann Inaba.
The controversial ice skater did a quickstep to the tune “Redneck Woman,” which was fitting for Harding as she declared in rehearsal footage that she loves to hunt, fish and cut wood.
In fact, the country routine started with Harding cutting wood with a prop axe, and concluded with the gutsy athlete throwing Farber to the ballroom floor!
Tonioli called Harding’s dance “great fun, high energy.”
But it was her ice skating rivals Nagasu and Rippon who took first place for the night, both earning 74 points.
Nagasu performed a lovely Disney-themed routine in which she channeled Cinderella with her “Prince” of a partner, Alan Bersten.
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