In one of "I, Tonya's" more explosive moments, an irate Tonya Harding confronts the judges at a competition after her scores turn out lower than expected. She swears at an especially patronizing judge, then meets with her coach, Diane Rawlinson, who isn't pleased one bit with her protege's behavior. Tonya accuses Diane of not being supportive enough, then fires her, announcing that Dody Teachman wants to coach her anyway. As noted by Vulture, this scene was complete fiction, as Teachman was already working as Rawlinson's assistant and the change in coaches was a very amicable one.

The switch had nothing to do either with Harding's brash, nonconformist style and attitude clashing with Rawlinson's straight-laced personality. Instead, her work ethic appeared to be the main issue. "The bottom line is, it wasn't working," Rawlinson explained to Sports Illustrated. "Tonya wasn't training, and wasn't meeting the goals she had set for herself. So I delegated her to Dody."

As for the scene where Harding rehires Rawlinson ahead of the 1994 Winter Olympics, that, too, did not really happen. Both women did team up once again in the lead-up to Lillehammer, but Harding wrote in her autobiography "The Tonya Tapes" that she only reconnected with her former coach because her then-husband wanted her to do so. It is, however, apparently true that Rawlinson was not a fan of Harding's blue nail polish.

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