TV Presenter Ruby Wax Remembers Notorious OJ Simpson Interview: “He Made Stabbing Motions With Banana”
deadline.comFollowing the death of OJ Simpson this week, veteran TV presenter and comedienne Ruby Wax has written about the time she spent interviewing the footballing legend turned pariah for her BBC chat show.
Back in 1998, Wax travelled to Los Angeles where she spent 17 hours with Simpson. Writing in The Times of London this weekend, she says the moment he re-enacted his alleged killings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman – for which he went through “the trial of the century” before being acquitted in 1995 – wasn’t even the weirdest part of the day.
Wax writes: “After a manic 17 hours’ filming, I asked him for the final time whether he was involved in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
I was sure we could get him to confess. But he simply turned to the camera, said “no” and gave a rueful smile.” Wax remembers an incident when she had returned to her hotel room after finishing filming: “There was a knock at the door.
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