Infamous former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding alleged on The Today Show Thursday that she was abused as a child by her mother and raped at gunpoint by her then-husband.

Harding appeared on the show to promote her tell-all book, The Tonya Tapes.

She told host Meredith Vieira that her life has been one giant rollercoaster. Harding alleged that when she was growing up, her mother would beat her after practice if she hadn't skated well.

LaVona Harding Golden denied the allegations. She told The Today Show that she struck her daughter only once, lightly, with a hairbrush.

“I did the very best I could as a mother. I still love her. I always will,” Golden said.

The two are estranged and Harding said she doesn’t believe she will ever talk to her mother again.

“I gave her the opportunity to be a mother and it did not happen. I have forgiven her for everything she had done to me as a child, but I’m OK. I’m all right,” Harding said.

Harding also claims ex-husband Jeff Gillooly sexually assaulted and regularly threatened her.

Despite it all, Harding said she has finally found happiness.

"I’m successful," Harding said. "To me success is having inner peace and being happy, and that’s where I’m at. When you go to hell and come back, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel.”

Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan became household names when an associate of Tonya Harding clubbed Kerrigan on the knee with a baton as she left the ice during practice at the 1994 U.S. championships in Detroit.

The attack prevented rival Kerrigan from competing, but she recovered to win a silver medal at the 1994 Olympic games in Lillehammer a few weeks later.

Harding, from Portland, finished out of the running.

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