Journalist recalls OJ Simpson interview after murder trial

Veteran journalist Chris Myers talks about former NFL star O.J. Simpson in an appearance on OutKick's "The Ricky Cobb Show."

Veteran journalist Chris Myers recalled on Tuesday the wild story of him interviewing former NFL star O.J. Simpson three years after his acquittal on murder charges in 1995.

Myers shared his experience during a recent appearance on OutKick’s "The Ricky Cobb Show." Myers said Simpson, who died earlier this year, had two conditions for the 1998 interview: The first was it had to be live.

Simpson turned down Barbara Walters because she wanted to have a taped interview, and he didn’t want it to be edited to make him look bad. 

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Simpson died from cancer on April 10, 2024. He was 76. (Steve Marcus/File)

The second condition was that Myers could not ask about his children.

Myers said the former NFL running back was actually going to appear on his ESPN show "Up Close" before the murder trial was announced.

After the interview was agreed upon, there were people in Simpson's circle who did not think Myers should interview him.

"One of O.J.’s main attorneys in the trial that got him off told me kind of on the side, ‘Hey, I wouldn’t do the interview.’ I said, ‘Why is that?’ He said everyone attached to him is negative."

Other people had different reasons for why Myers should not conduct the interview.

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FOX Sports NASCAR broadcaster Chris Myers speaks during a press conference at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Feb. 3, 2023. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)

"Some people didn’t want me to do the interview and criticized me because they thought, ‘Hey,