Veteran journalist Chris Myers recalled on Tuesday the wild story of him interviewing former NFL star O.J. Simpson three years after his acquittal on homicide costs in 1995.
Myers shared his expertise throughout a current look on OutKick’s “The Ricky Cobb Show.” Myers stated Simpson, who died earlier this 12 months, had two circumstances for the 1998 interview: The primary was it needed to be stay.
Simpson turned down Barbara Walters as a result of she needed to have a taped interview, and he didn’t need it to be edited to make him look unhealthy.
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Simpson died from most cancers on April 10, 2024. He was 76. (Steve Marcus/File)
The second situation was that Myers couldn’t ask about his youngsters.
Myers stated the former NFL running back was truly going to look on his ESPN present “Up Shut” earlier than the homicide trial was introduced.
After the interview was agreed upon, there have been individuals in Simpson’s circle who didn’t suppose Myers ought to interview him.
“Certainly one of O.J.’s primary attorneys within the trial that received him off informed me form of on the facet, ‘Hey, I wouldn’t do the interview.’ I stated, ‘Why is that?’ He stated everybody hooked up to him is destructive.”
Different individuals had totally different causes for why Myers mustn’t conduct the interview.
FOX Sports activities NASCAR broadcaster Chris Myers speaks throughout a press convention at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Feb. 3, 2023. (James Gilbert/Getty Pictures)
“Some individuals didn’t need me to do the interview and criticized me as a result of they thought, ‘Hey, you’re placing a killer on the air.” And he’s going to attempt to restore his picture. However we left it as much as the viewers.”
The opposite danger to the interview was Myers was informed forward that Simpson might spin his “narcissistic lies” and make individuals look “silly” in a stay setting.
Whereas not being a sportscaster on the time, or a lawyer or a decide, Myers stated he dove deep into the data to arrange.
“I noticed issues that perhaps the jury didn’t even get to see, police documentation pictures, issues like that.”
O.J. Simpson’s spouse, Nicole Brown Simpson, was murdered on June 12, 1994. (Getty Pictures)
In the course of the interview, Myers was asking Simpson concerning the home violence costs and displaying pictures of his ex-wife.
“We went to a business break, and his media rep comes operating out of the inexperienced room and yelling to me, ‘You possibly can’t ask these questions!’ and O.J. was like, ‘Nah, nah, go in there. I received this, that is high-quality.’ After which he turns to me in an informal second and says, ‘Hey, I received a tee trip at Riviera golf country club subsequent week, and we’ve got a gap in our foursome if you wish to be part of us.’
“I used to be shocked, as a result of we had been between this interview stay off the air, coming again in 60 seconds, and [it] simply form of confirmed me his disengagement, no matter you needed to name it.”
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FOX Sports activities reporter Chris Myers is proven earlier than Tremendous Bowl LIV at Laborious Rock Stadium in Miami on Feb. 2, 2020. (Jamie Squire/Getty Pictures)
Simpson was acquitted on the homicide costs of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ronald Goldman. However he was later held responsible for her homicide in a civil trial and ordered to pay their households $33.5 million.
He was arrested in 2007 for robbing a Las Vegas lodge room and located responsible in 2008.
Simpson was launched on parole in 2017 and was identified with most cancers in 2023. He died on April 10, 2024, at 76.
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