Ruby Wax recalls the moment OJ Simpson ‘more or less’ confessed to killing his former wife in what he believes was an April Fool’s joke.
The TV personality had met Simpson after he was famously acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994.
Wax, now 70, claimed in an interview with Good Morning Britain on Friday that after the pair finished filming a documentary in 1998, Simpson called her on April 1 and said: ‘It’s OJ, I did it. April Fools!’
She claims he hung up immediately after reporting it, adding that the ex-NFL star “kind of told me what he did.”
Wax’s appearance on the talk show came after the former football star died last week from prostate cancer.
A morbid video of Simpson pretending to stab Wax during the 1998 BBC interview has also surfaced in the aftermath of his death.
Ruby Wax claimed that after she and OJ Simpson (pictured together in 1998) finished filming a documentary in 1998, Simpson called her on April 1 and said, “It’s OJ, I did it.” April Fools!’
Simpson was acquitted, but later found civilly liable for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown. Pictured: the couple in New York in 1993
In a recently surfaced video clip, Simpson pretended to stab Wax with a banana while making a bizarre violent noise while grinning at the camera.
Wax previously called the ex-NFL star, who was held liable by a civil court for stabbing to death his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, “the most complicated character on earth.”
While the pair were filming the documentary, Simpson pretended to stab Wax with a banana while making a screeching noise as he grinned at the camera.
Simpson’s questionable joke came when she opened her hotel door for him, but the comedian claimed he was initially looking for a knife.
“After we finished filming, Simpson told me he had a surprise for me — and I was honestly surprised,” Wax said. “I think it was his idea of a joke.”
Video of the bizarre incident resurfaced on Thursday, as the world learned the ex-football star and murder suspect had died after a brief battle with prostate cancer.
Wax described their 1998 interview more than two decades later as a “psychological centerpiece” and revealed that she thought she could get Simpson to admit to the fatal stabbings – and even suggested that he would want her to arrest him for the crime.
“I think he wanted me to arrest him, he said out of the blue, ‘I want to know what my favorite poem is’ and he went to ‘Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”
“I thought I could pick him up,” Ruby said. ‘[I thought] he would say on the air, “Yes, he did it,” and I would get him in jail. So I was a public defender.”
Wax, 70, is a British-American actress, comedian and television personality who interviewed Simpson 25 years ago, whom she called “the most complicated character on earth”
Simpson’s questionable joke came when she opened her hotel door for him, but the comedian claimed he was initially looking for a knife
“After we finished filming, Simpson told me he had a surprise for me — and I was honestly surprised,” Wax said. “I think it was his idea of a joke.”
Simpson rose to prominence as a running back who played eleven seasons, nine of which were with the Buffalo Bills
She recalled their first meeting and claimed that he told her that his favorite poem was one about Lizzie Borden, an American woman who was tried and acquitted in 1892 of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
‘The first night we went out, we went out with his sister, and all these women came to the table and said, “Can we meet up next?” They came every night and want to sleep with a criminal.
The TV personality also addressed the strange stab joke, which he said came after the interview.
‘Then I did a bit on camera where I said, “I’m fixed up and I don’t know who my date is going to be,” and I opened the door and it would be him.
‘But when he was outside, all the containers were outside and he was looking for a knife to fool me when the door was open, but there was no knife, so he grabbed a banana.’
The infamous double murder suspect died surrounded by his family at his Las Vegas home on Wednesday evening.
Simpson became one of the most infamous figures in America after he was accused of the 1994 murders.
An X-post shared by his family on his official account read: “On April 10, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer.
‘He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. – The Simpson family.’
The morbid video resurfaced on Thursday, when the world learned that the ex-football star and murder suspect had died after a brief battle with prostate cancer.
Wax described their 1998 interview more than 20 years later as a “psychological middle ground” and said the odd jab came after the interview.
OJ Simpson in a mugshot after his arrest in Los Angeles, California, USA, June 17, 1994
Simpson had awkwardly joked about “confession” in one of his last podcast appearances just weeks before his death.
The football legend and acquitted murderer made the comment on an episode of the podcast ‘It Is What It Is’ after being asked about Shaquelle O’Neal claiming that ‘men shouldn’t open up to women (because) they will use it ‘. against them.’
“When you say ‘open up to women,’ I don’t know what he’s talking about,” Simpson said with a smile. ‘Is he talking about confession? Then, no man, don’t confess.’
The joke drew raucous laughter from the podcast hosts, but many saw it in a different light and felt he was making a “mockery” of the murders for which he was found civilly liable.
The podcast clip also resurfaced after Simpson’s death.