Brown Responds to O.J. Simpson Interview
June 8, 2004 -- When O.J. Simpson complains of problems he's having raising the children he had with Nicole Brown Simpson, there's at least one person who has no sympathy — Nicole's sister.
Denise Brown, who spoke out on behalf of her murdered sibling on ABC News' Good Morning America, remains convinced he brought the problems onto himself when, she alleges, he killed Nicole 10 years ago.
"If he's angry at Nicole [for not being around], then he should not have murdered her," Brown told GMA. "Nicole would be here today if it wasn't for him. Ronald Goldman would be here today if it wouldn't have been for him."
June 12 marks a decade since Nicole and her friend Goldman were killed, and Simpson accused of their slayings. A California jury a year later acquitted the former football star of the double murder, but a separate civil suit in 1997 found him liable.
Simpson reflected on the 10 years since he went from revered NFL Hall of Famer and celebrity to accused murderer in a recent interview with Fox News, where he said sometimes he is angry at his ex-wife for not being around to help raise their two children, Sydney, now 18, and Justin, now 15. He said he has trouble helping his children deal with their problems and the loss of their mother.
"Sometimes I think maybe I feel it more than maybe they [Sydney and Justin] express it," Simpson said in the interview. "I don't know if that makes sense. It's just that sometimes when I feel at a loss to deal with a problem, even though intellectually I realize it's all emotion. And even if their mother was here, she couldn't deal with it, but I just feel she could have been a lot more than a rock for them emotionally."
Manipulative Killer?
But Denise Brown says Simpson is only trying twist around facts and portray himself as a victim.
"That's his personality," she told GMA. "He lies, manipulates. They [people like Simpson] try to change everything around so people will look at him like he's the nice, wonderful human being he supposedly wants to be."
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