Before O.J. Simpson’s civil trial for the murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown, the former NFL star underwent 13 days worth of deposition. In since-released tapes of Simpson with attorney Daniel Petrocelli, the father of five made some shocking statements about his slain ex-wife.
When Simpson was shown photos of Brown with a cut lip and visible bruises, the NFL star denied ever physically assaulting his ex-wife. He even claimed that the “bruises” Petrocelli was showing him weren’t bruises at all. “You don’t see anything?” the attorney asks Simpson (per ABC News), to which he replies, “No, I mean, I see this eye thing.” When Petrocelli asked Simpson where the marks on Brown’s face came from, he replied, “It reflects doing a movie that we’re doing and we’re doing make-up.”
Simpson ultimately confessed to being physically violent with his wife during the questioning. “I think any marks that’s on her, I take full responsibility for. I don’t know what else you want to do. I take total responsibility,” he stated, responding “Yes” when asked if he had hit or bruised Brown in the past. The former Buffalo Bills player claimed he was physical with his ex-wife only once, despite her numerous contradicting statements. “I’ve—all my life with Nicole, no matter what was going on, I handled it without being physical with her,” Simpson said in the pre-trial deposition. “And that time I got physical with her and I’m ashamed of it. I wish it not had happened.”
