O.J. Simpson said he would kill his ex-wife if she slept with another man, according to a new book by a close friend of Nicole Brown Simpson.
Faye Resnick writes in "Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted" that both Nicole Simpson and O.J. Simpson confided in her during the months before Nicole's murder.In April, while Nicole Simpson's resolve to push her ex-husband out of her life was growing, Resnick wrote, Simpson warned the author: "If she's with another man, I'll kill her. You tell her she'd better play her role and look like my wife."
Resnick said she pleaded in vain with her friend to flee to Mexico or Europe because of the threats but Nicole Simpson refused, saying she wanted to attend a dance recital for her daughter, Sydney, which was only a week away.
Nicole Simpson did attend the recital, then ate her last meal at the Mezzaluna restaurant. Resnick, who spent the night of the murders at a drug treatment center because of a cocaine problem, wrote that she called Nicole Simpson around 9 p.m. on June 12 - the same night her friend and Ronald Gold-man were knifed to death. Simpson is on trial for the murders.
The 243-page book, released Monday, is a highly personal account of Resnick's four-year friendship with Nicole Simpson and of the stormy relationship between the Simpsons.
Resnick wrote the book based on notes she kept during the last year of her friendship with Nicole Simpson, according to a spokeswoman for publisher Dove Audio Inc.
Resnick writes that Simpson made threats to his ex-wife because she didn't want to reconcile with him, and he wanted her "to face all the pain she's made me face."