New York Daily News

O.J. ‘fess’ all too real in ’06 chat

- BY KATE FELDMAN

O.J. SIMPSON’S less-than-“hypothetic­al” retelling of the night Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were murdered from a 2006 Fox interview was finally aired Sunday night.

The special was filmed as part of a promotiona­l tour for his book “If I Did It,” but was never aired.

In a descriptio­n that alternated between using an accomplice named “Charlie” — and “I” — Simpson, now 70, detailed the graphic murders of his ex-wife and her friend on June 12, 1994.

Simpson describes entering through a back gate and seeing the home flooded with candles and music. Then, he said, Goldman showed up.

“In the mood I was in, I started to have words with him,” Simpson told Judith Regan.

He went on to describe a verbal fight with Goldman that escalated when Brown came outside. She fell and hurt herself, at which point Goldman “got into a karate thing,” Simpson claimed.

Then, “Charlie” grabbed a knife.

“After that, I don’t remember,” he said, laughing. “There was blood and stuff around.”

The coroner’s report described the attacks more clearly, including Brown being stabbed four times and Goldman five times before the killer slit his throat and severed his abdominal artery. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office described the murders as “overkill.”

Christophe­r Darden, who tried the case, said on the recently taped panel, that he believed Simpson “confessed to murder.”

“He may try describing this as a hypothetic­al, but it becomes ‘I,’ ” Darden said.

Simpson, no longer speaking hypothetic­ally, said he left for Chicago that night and was woken up the next morning by a call from Los Angeles police. He returned immediatel­y.

“I thought that my whole life meant something,” he told Regan. “It bugs me that it seems that people wanted me to be guilty.”

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