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Nicole Brown Simpson’s sisters are speaking out 30 years after she was brutally murdered.
The new “Good Morning America” interview Joining Diane Sawyer, Tanya, 54, Dominique, 59, and Dennis, 66, talk about the loss of Nicole, domestic violence, and their reactions to the recent death of OJ Simpson.
Diane asks them how they’ve lived with “30 years of anger and sadness.”
Tanya calmly replies: “I went through a lot of therapy. It was hard. Unresolved grief. It’s been 10 years and it’s all taken a toll on me.”
“Sometimes I think, ‘Oh, I’m so sad today,’ and a memory comes back to me, that it was the day she was killed, or her birthday, or something,” Dominique recalls.
Denise added: “The pain never goes away, it never subsides, it never gets easier, but you do your best and move forward, and that’s one step forward.”
Exclusive: “The pain doesn’t go away, it doesn’t ease, it doesn’t get any easier.”
June marks 30 years since Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to death, and now family members are speaking out about OJ Simpson’s death. pic.twitter.com/Q809on0Q6q
— Good Morning America (@GMA) May 28, 2024
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Nicole is the subject of the documentary series “The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson,” which will air on Lifetime on June 1st and 2nd and give viewers a glimpse into who she was as a person.
Dennis told Diane, “What we wanted to hear was Nicole’s voice, because a lot of people say, ‘I don’t even know what her voice sounds like. Who is Nicole?’ So I hope that this documentary really gives people a sense of who Nicole is.”
Looking back on Nicole’s relationship with her ex-husband, O.J., the sisters speak out about the domestic violence that allegedly took place during their relationship.
Nicole met OJ in 1977 when she was 18 and working as a waitress. He was 30 and a celebrity at the time. The couple married in 1985 and had two children, Sydney and Justin, before divorcing in 1992.
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Dennis recalls once finding a Polaroid of Nicole looking bruised and beaten in a bathroom drawer: “I said, ‘Oh my god, Nick, look at that black eye!’ And she said, ‘No, no, it’s the makeup artist at the studio.’ [O.J.] “We were shooting a movie at the time. I said, ‘Wow, that looks so real,’ and I put it back in the drawer. I didn’t know it was a real black eye. I had no idea.”
Dominic discovered Nicole’s horrifying diary, saying: “I found the suicide note and diary piled in a box under a cupboard in the kitchen, along with the children’s drawings and lots of other things… It wasn’t next to the bed where she would have written in it and where he could have looked in. It wasn’t even under her mattress.”
Diane then narrates some of those accounts, including one about an attack on their first meeting: “He became enraged, chased me, grabbed me, and threw me against a wall.” In another, she describes a “possible skull fracture” that she told doctors was the result of a bicycle accident.
Nicole also wrote that OJ called her “gross” and a “fat pig” while she was pregnant, and that he verbally abused her.
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Nicole called the police on multiple occasions, and in 1989 Simpson was arrested and later convicted of spousal abuse.
Dennis tells Diane that when Nicole confided in him about the violence, she said the wrong thing.
She asked Nicole, “Why don’t you just get out of this relationship and break up with him?”, adding, “I’ve asked her all the reasons why you wouldn’t listen,” and “You being supportive and letting them talk is the better option.”
On June 12, 1994, Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman were found brutally murdered outside their Brentwood home. OJ was arrested for murder but was acquitted of all criminal charges. He passed away in April 2024 after a battle with cancer.
Diane asks the women if O.J.’s death “made a big difference to you guys right away?”
“It’s very confusing, very complicated, but my children are important to me and I feel very sad for them,” Dominique said.
Dennis nodded and added, “It’s for them.”
Tune in to “GMA” Wednesday for the rest of the interview with Diane and the Brown sisters.
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