O.J. Simpson won’t confess any time soon.
Pro Football Hall of Famer reacts to Shaquille O’Neal’s comments about sharing secrets with women On the podcast “It Is What It Is” And chose to go ahead and make it awkward.
“I don’t know what he means when he says, ‘Be open to women,'” he said during his weekly appearance on the show. “Is he talking about confession? No, don’t confess. I think he’s right. Don’t say anything…take me out of confession.”
“You have to remove me from this.”
The statement drew laughs from podcast hosts Cam’ron and Mace. Rappers connected the not-so-secret reference to Simpson’s non-football notoriety.
The running back went on trial in 1995 for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
The case made national headlines, and the acquittal inflamed racial tensions across the country.
He was later found responsible in a civil trial over their deaths.
Simpson and others, including Cam’ron, have long maintained their innocence.
Still, Simpson, who last played in the NFL in 1979, has had a number of other legal troubles in recent years.
He was acquitted of assault and robbery charges in a 2001 incident in Miami-Dade County, Florida, but was investigated later that year for being part of a drug trafficking organization.
In 2007, he was arrested on suspicion of stealing sports memorabilia at gunpoint during a robbery in Las Vegas.
Simpson was charged with multiple felonies, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, robbery and use of a deadly weapon.
He was found guilty of these charges and sentenced to 33 years in prison in 2008, and was paroled in 2017.
