14 DAY TRIAL // Before she was the matriarch of the most successful reality television empire, Kris Jenner was the wife of the late Robert Kardashian Sr., a famous attorney. Their family was very close to that of sports star O.J. Simpson and wife Nicole Brown, with Kardashian eventually defending Simpson in the controversial trial into Brown’s 1994 murder.
Simpson got off the hook, in a jury decision that surprised even his defense attorney, Kris says in a new interview that will be included on 2 upcoming documentaries, ABC News informs.
“He’s going to kill me and he’s going to get away with it”
Kris was Nicole’s best friend, but in more recent years, she admitted she had little idea of the kind of abuse Nicole was suffering at the hands of her husband. Looking back, she admits now, she is positive she could have done more to prevent the horrible tragedy, though she wouldn’t be able to say what.
Still, she admits she’s filled with regret because of it. She could have paid more attention, she could have been a better friend by reaching out to Nicole to ask her what was wrong, instead of waiting for her to break the ice and come clean.
“At the end of Nicole's life, I think she finally was at a place where she knew she had to be more vocal with what was going on and she was in trouble,” she says. “The one thing she would tell all of us by the time, you know, it got to that level was, ‘He's going to kill me and he's going to get away with it’.”
A better look inside the controversial trial
As noted above, the O.J. Simpson murder trial remains to this day one of the most controversial and watched celebrity trials ever.
It’s wasn’t just the brutality of the murders (Nicole Brown’s body was found lifeless next to that of her best friend) that captivated the nation, but also the fact that every piece of evidence seemed to be pointing at O.J. as the guilty party. With all that, he walked on the double murder charges.
Those who still find the case intriguing for a variety of reasons can catch the 2 documentaries airing soon, which claim to include never-before-heard recordings and pieces of evidence.
The LMN documentary “The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case: The Untold Story” airs on September 30, at 8 p.m., while “O.J. Speaks: The Hidden Tapes” premieres on A&E on October 1, at 9 p.m.