"O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession.”
In 2018, a 2006 interview of OJ Simpson was released by Fox, one that had been originally unreleased due to fear of public backlash and for respect for the Goldman and Brown families. It was infamously known as OJ’s confession tape, but the full title was "O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession.” The interviewer Judith Regan claims it came about when, “I received a phone call from an attorney who said 'O.J. is ready to confess,'" The premise of the interview was to be a promotion for the release of his book “If I did It” She also said that “The only condition that he had was that he didn't want to call the book I Did It. He wanted to put an 'if' in front of it so that he would have deniability with his children. He couldn't face his children and he couldn't tell them that he had done it." Simpson begins his recount of the night of 1994, “ Now picture this and keep in mind that this is purely hypothetical” He claims, “In the book, the hypothetical is, this guy Charlie shows up, this guy I used to be friends with and I don't know why he had been by Nicole's house, but he told me, 'You won't believe what's going on over there.' And I remember thinking, 'Whatever's going on over there, that has got to stop,'" They arrive at Bundy and Simpson says "I put on the cap and gloves" while his friend Charlie grabs the knife that he kept in his White Ford Bronco. After entering the property through a broken gate, Simpson sees Ronald Goldman arriving at the condo. Simpson, then claims, hypothetically of course that he accuses Goldman of planning to sleep with Nicole, which Goldman denies. Nicole tells Simpson to leave Goldman alone because he was just returning glasses she had left in a restaurant. Simpson becomes aggressive and then Nicole charges at him like "a banshee," and she falls and smacks her head on the concrete. When Goldman drops to a "karate stance", Simpson loses it. He then says he blacked out but “I remember I grabbed the knife -- I do remember that portion, taking a knife from Charlie -- and to be honest after that I don't remember, except I'm standing there and there's all kind of stuff around and ..." Then followed up by "then something went horribly wrong, and I know what happened, but I can't tell you how." So the next thing he knows he’s soaked in blood and holding a bloody knife, with Goldman and Nicole dead in front of him. Reagan asks him if this is the point at which he took off his glove and he responds with "I have no conscious memory of doing that, but obviously I must have because they found the glove there."
The interview to me seems to be laced with shame and guilt. Simpson often crossed the line between his hypothetical The passing of the responsibility on his friend “Charlie” a person
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