OJ Simpson Says His FOX Interview Special Wasn’t a Confession

OJ Simpson denies that the interview he did, which aired last weekend on FOX at long last, was a confession. Buffalo News spoke with Simpson about the interview, which was recorded in 2006 but never aired until last Sunday’s O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession? special.

Simpson said of the special, “When people want to make money or get ratings, they’re going to pimp me. I’m going to get pimped.”

He added that his friends have been asking him about the show, and said, “Listen, if I confessed 12 years ago, you would have heard about it 12 years ago!”

Simpson added when asked if he watched it, “I watch nothing of me. I didn’t watch it because I knew they were all haters, and people will say things that are just not true, and there’s nobody there to challenge them, and that would piss me off. So why? It’s a beautiful day. I’m about to go play golf. Why should I have some crap in my mind? You’ve got to let it go.”

The special aired portions of Simpson’s interview with Judith Regan, which was conducted while promoting his book If I Did It. The controversy surrounding the book and interview led FOX to shelve it at the time, and the rights to the book were eventually won by the family of Ron Goldman to partially satisfy the civil judgment over a wrongful death lawsuit. Goldman’s family retitled the book If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer and the cover infamously had the “If” published in such tiny font that without close examination it reads I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.