Comedian Ruby Wax Recalls How O.J. Simpson Pretended to Stab Her on Camera During Interview

“I wasn’t scared, I just thought he was insane,” wrote Ruby Wax, who interviewed O.J. Simpson in 1998 for a BBC docuseries

Following O.J. Simpson’s death from cancer at age 76 on April 10, comedian Ruby Wax wrote about her BBC interview with the disgraced former NFL player, saying Simpson pretended to stab her with a banana.

The comedian interviewed Simpson in 1998 for her BBC docuseries Ruby Wax Meets... after he was famously and controversially acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

Referencing the interview, which filmed for about 17 hours, Wax wrote in an April 13 article for The Times that Simpson knocked on her hotel room door in Los Angeles and made “stabbing motions with a banana held above his head while screeching.”

“I wasn’t scared,” Wax wrote. “I just thought he was insane. I also immediately thought this was very good television.”

Related: O.J. Simpson Dead at 76 From Cancer, Family Announces

Wax wrote that after the incident, Simpson’s agent, Mike Gilbert, said Simpson often liked to imitate films; Wax compared Simpson’s stabbing movements to those in Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.

Wax also wrote that Simpson joked about killing his ex-wife, calling Wax shortly after filming ended and saying, "Hi, it's O.J. I did it.” Simpson then claimed his statement was an April Fools' joke and hung up, Wax wrote.

The TV personality noted that Simpson denied his involvement in the murders when she asked him about the killings during the interview.

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Following his acquittal, Simpson was sued in civil court by the Brown and Goldman families. He had been ordered to pay them $33.5 million after he was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in 1997.

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But prior to Simpson’s death, an attorney for Goldman's father claimed Simpson owed the family more than $100 million, money which he said has since grown due to interest.

Related: O.J. Simpson Died $114M in Debt to Ron Goldman’s Family — and Legal Battle Looms, Attorney Says

"He died without penance,”  Goldman family lawyer David Cook told PEOPLE of Simpson. “He did not want to give a dime, a nickel to Fred [Goldman], never, anything, never.”

Simpson’s death was announced by his family in a statement posted to X, formerly Twitter, on April 11.

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