Ruby Wax is one of the American exports on this year’s I AM a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, being a comedian, author, TV presenter, as well as a mental health advocate. The comedian was known as the host of The Full Wax, Ruby Wax Meets…and The Ruby Wax Show, which were famous on TV in the nineties and noughties.
Just a little more than two years after he had been acquitted of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown and his friend Rob Goldman, in 1988, Ruby interviewed O.J. as part of her Ruby Wax Meets…. series at the BBC.
What did Ruby say about her interview with O.J. Simpson?
Ruby has also explained O.J. as the most confusing character on earth, stating that his presence was very jagged. The interview was as strange to watch as O.J. was faking to stab Ruby with a banana. They proceeded thereafter to Venice Beach, where the ex-NFL player was heckled and requested to shake their hands in equal measure.
Ruby recalled the moment when the interview was given in April 2024, after O.J. had died, and said: “There was a knock at the door. It was Simpson, making stabbing motions with a banana held above his head while screeching, in the vein of the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
She added, ‘After a maniac 17 hours’ filming, I asked him for the final time whether he was involved in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. I was sure we could get him to confess. But he simply turned to the camera, said “no” and gave a rueful smile.’
“Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one.”
Elaborating further on their strange encounter, Ruby said: “The last time I spoke to him was, I think, on April 1, 1998, shortly after we had finished filming. He called me up here in London and said, “Hi, it’s OJ. I did it “. Then he said, “April fool’s” and hung up.’
The O.J. Simpson trial that was dramatised by Netflix in 2016 was the headline news worldwide. Although he had been found guilty in a civil suit in 1997, in a case filed by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, which established him as liable for the wrongful death, and fined him damages worth 33 million, he was acquitted of the two murders in the criminal case.
