Ruby Wax reflects on her 17-hour chat with OJ Simpson where he 'stabbed her with banana'
Ruby Wax opened up on her 17-hour-long interview with the late OJ Simpson, detailing how he bizarrely tried to stab her with a banana two years after his acquittal.
OJ Simpson has died aged 76 after a battle with cancer
Ruby Wax, like many TV presenters, reflected on her time interview Orenthal James ‘OJ’ Simpson following the footballers’ death last week.
The comedian spoke to the ex-athlete in 1998 for a marathon interview that took 17 hours to film.
Ruby fearlessly concluded the interview by blatantly asking if OJ had murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, a crime he was acquitted for two years earlier in what would often be referred to as the trial of the century.
While the 70-year-old can still remember being convinced that she would get him to confess to being behind the fatal stabbings, he simply turned to the camera and monotonously responded: “No.”
Writing for The Times of London after OJ’s death at the age of 76, Ruby revealed that after the interview, she had a peculiar interaction with the athlete-turned-actor back at her hotel room as he knocked on her door.
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When Ruby opened it, all she saw was OJ “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 also recalled OJ sharing his “favourite poem” with her at dinner the night before their interview, which was about Lizzie Borden who had been acquitted of double murder in 1983.
Ruby recalled: “Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one.”
After their bizarre encounters, the comedian thought she wouldn’t hear from OJ again but come April 1st of the same year, the former NFL star seemingly made an international call to reach Ruby in London just to say a few words.
He reportedly told her before quickly hanging up: “Hi, it’s OJ. I did it…April fool’s.”
The 76-year-old did on April 10 after a battle with prostate cancer as his family released a statement.
They assured he was surrounded by his children and grandchildren and requested “privacy and grace” while they transition to life without the star.
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