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 Tonya Harding arrives at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards. (Photo: Jordan Strauss, Invision via AP) 
 
 Allison Janney’s Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Tonya Harding’s mother in I Tonya included two constants: drinking and physical abuse of her star figure skater daughter. 
 
 Harding’s real-life mother, LaVona "Sandy" Golden, however, told ABC News as part of a two-hour special that she neither consistently abused Harding and the scenes that showed her drinking while Harding skated as a child were inaccurate. 
 
 “I didn’t abuse any of my children,” Golden said per part of the interview ABC News released ahead of Thursday’s show. “Spanked? Yes, (I) spanked. Absolutely, positively you (have) got to show them right from wrong.” 
 
 Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding Story airs on ABC Thursday night (9 p.m. ET). 
 
 Golden admitted one incident from the movie did occur. 
 
 “I spanked her once with a hairbrush at a competition,” Golden said. 
 
 Harding, however, said the abuse wasn’t isolated as Golden contends and the scene where Golden threw a steak knife that lodged in her arm indeed took place. 
 
 “I was about 10 feet from her,” Harding told ABC News. “It was a steak knife.” 
 
 Golden said the incident didn't happen. 
 
 “Why would I throw a steak knife at anybody?” Golden said. “She’s lied so much she doesn’t know what isn’t a lie anymore.” 
 
 As far as the drinking, Harding told ABC News that she knew at age 11 half a thermos her mother would take to the rink in the morning was filled with “brandy and the rest was coffee.” 
 
 Golden said it wasn’t actually alcohol. 
 
 “I would have coffee and sometimes I would put brandy flavoring in it,” Golden said. 
 
 
 
 ||||| Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding said that her mother abused her throughout her childhood, including that she once threw a steak knife at her, and that any support from her mother came at an emotional price. 
 
 “I don’t think that there was more than one day a week, sometimes, that I didn’t get beaten,” Harding told ABC's Amy Robach. 
 
 But her mother, LaVona "Sandy" Golden, told ABC News that wasn't the case at all. 
 
 “I didn’t abuse any of my children,” Golden said. “Spanked? Yes, [I] spanked. Absolutely, positively you [have] got to show them right from wrong.” 
 
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 Harding and her tumultuous relationship with her mother are receiving new attention in the movie, “I, Tonya,” which was inspired by Harding’s life and includes a scene in which Allison Janney, who plays Golden, throws a steak knife at Harding, played by actress Margot Robbie. Janney won a Golden Globe award Sunday night for her portrayal of Golden. 
 
 Golden’s new ABC News interview is featured in the two-hour ABC News special “Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding Story." 
 
 LaVona Golden 
 
 Tonya Harding was just 3 years old when she stepped out onto the ice for the first time, and her mother said she knew instantly that her daughter had a talent for figure skating. 
 
 “Whatever the other people were doing, she turned around right behind them and did the same thing,” Golden said. “She wasn’t supposed to be able to do any of it, but she just went and did it.” 
 
 “Tonya was my little dynamo,” she added. “I called her my little twinkle, my little star.” 
 
 LaVona Golden 
 
 Golden said Harding was the youngest of four children. Harding’s father is Golden’s third husband. She said the family had a modest life together. 
 
 “Tonya herself called us trailer trash. We were never trailer trash. We had a beautiful new trailer,” Golden said. “We didn’t live in filth or dirt or anything that I would call unusual.” 
 
 As her childhood progressed, Harding spent most of her days on the ice, practicing and in competitions. Her mother said that she worked overtime to pay for the sport’s expenses, like lessons, costumes and competition fees. 
 
 LaVona Golden 
 
 Golden said she had jobs as a waitress, a bartender and a cook, adding, “I was working right around the clock, morning, noon, and night, trying to get the money for her to skate and have lessons…. I had to work sometimes two and three jobs a day trying to make ends meet.” 
 
 “My mother did pay for skating, but I worked at the rink for my ice time or I worked at the roller rink for my ice time,” Harding told ABC News’ Amy Robach. “It’s a very expensive sport.” 
 
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 But Harding said that while her mother helped her pay for skating, that support came with a price. Harding said her mother once hit her in the bathroom at an ice rink, saying, “I remember she dragged me into the bathroom and beat me with a hairbrush, literally.” 
 
 Golden admitted it. “I spanked her once with a hairbrush at a competition,” said Golden, but claimed that it was an isolated incident. 
 
 LaVona Golden 
 
 But Harding alleges that the abuse went far beyond a single swat with a hairbrush. She says that once when she was in high school, her mother threw a steak knife at her, which landed in her forearm. Harding said she tried to leave the house in the middle of a conversation with her mother when she was struck. 
 
 “And that’s when it happened,” Harding said. “I was about 10 feet from her. It was a steak knife.” 
 
 However, Golden denies that the incident ever occurred. “Why would I throw a steak knife at anybody?” Golden said, claiming that her daughter has a history of being dishonest. “She’s lied so much she doesn’t know what isn’t a lie anymore.” 
 
 LaVona Golden 
 
 Harding became a force of nature on the ice. She skated her way to victory at the 1991 World Figure Skating Championships, where she became the first American woman to land a triple axel in competition, and she went on to compete at the 1992 and the 1994 Winter Olympics. 
 
 Today, Harding has her own family -- a husband of seven years, and a son. 
 
 “With my husband and my son, I get my second chance in life to be loved and to be happy,” she said. 
 
 Golden said she has never met her grandson, and Harding said that’s not going to change. 
 
 “I don’t want her anywhere near me. I don’t want her anywhere near my son,” Harding said of her mother. “She wants forgiveness. She wants to see me. She wants to make amends. She wants to meet and be part of the family. Hell no.” ||||| And the Golden Globe Award goes to … Allison Janney! 
 
 The actress took home the statue for best supporting actress in a motion picture at Sunday night’s award show for her role in I, Tonya. 
 
 Janney portrayed Tonya Harding’s mom, LaVona Fay Golden, in a dramatized version of the true story of figure skater Tonya Harding. 
 
 Janney thanked screenwriter Steven Rodgers in her acceptance speech for creating a “very distinctive, unique, mother…. of a character.” 
 
 “What he did is tell a story about class, tell a story about the disenfranchised about a woman who was not embraced for her individuality, tell a story about truth and the perception of truth in the media and the truths we all tell ourselves when we wake up in bed in the morning.” 
 
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 She also gave a shoutout to flu-ridden star Margot Robbie, who played Harding. 
 
 “Margot, my goodness, she’s a quadruple threat,” Janney said. 
 
 Be sure to check out PEOPLE’s full Golden Globes coverage to get the latest news on Hollywood’s big night. 
 
 The actress, 58, told PEOPLE at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association after party that she was “very excited and very proud” of her award. 
 
 Janney has been earning major Oscar buzz for her role as U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding’s controversial mother LaVona Golden in I, Tonya, which details the skater’s career and 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan that got Harding banned for life from figure skating. 
 
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 The actress has taken home seven Emmys, out of a whopping 13 nominations. She’s even won two Emmys for two different shows in the same year. 
 
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 She’s also been nominated for six Golden Globes (including this year’s nod) and 15 Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning six. 
 
 The 75th annual Golden Globes were presented live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday. 
 
 with reporting by MELODY CHIU
– In the movie I, Tonya, the film on the life of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, a shocking scene depicts a moment when Harding's mother threw a steak knife at her daughter, sticking in Harding's arm, during an argument. Now, in an interview with ABC News that aired Thursday, Harding's estranged mom, LaVona "Sandy" Golden, denies that incident ever happened and that much of the drinking and abuse linked to her in the film was exaggerated or a fabrication, USA Today reports. "I didn't abuse any of my children," Golden insists, though she does admit she "spanked [Tonya] once with a hairbrush at a competition," which was shown in the movie. "Spanked? Yes, [I] spanked. Absolutely, positively you [have] got to show them right from wrong." Golden is played in the film by Allison Janney, who won a Golden Globe for her performance. In ABC's two-hour Truth and Lies: The Tonya Harding Story, Golden also refutes Harding's claim that Golden would bring her to the skating rink with a thermos filled with brandy and a dash of coffee; Golden says she added a bit of "brandy flavoring" to her java. As for the steak knife, which Harding says was hurled at her from about 10 feet away, Golden retorts: "Why would I throw a steak knife at anybody? She's lied so much she doesn't know what isn't a lie anymore." Golden doesn't have all bad things to say about her daughter. "Tonya was my little dynamo," she says. "I called her my little twinkle, my little star." That wistful nostalgia doesn't mean a reconciliation is likely. "I don't want her anywhere near me," Harding says. "I don't want her anywhere near my son. … She wants to make amends. She wants to meet and be part of the family. Hell no." Catch clips at ABC.