Faye Resnick testified that O.J. Simpson used cocaine in the past and threatened to kill his ex-wife because she "rejected him, shamed and humiliated him," her lawyer said.
Monday, O.J. Simpson's attorneys were to begin their questioning of Resnick, and were expected to focus on her drug use. Resnick had no comment to reporters as she arrived for Monday's session in her deposition in the wrongful death suits filed against Simpson by the families of the victims.Simpson has repeatedly said that Resnick's link to drugs led to the 1994 slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. He said in a recent CNN interview that the answer to the slayings is "in the world of Faye Resnick."
Goldman family lawyer Daniel Petrocelli said Simpson was exaggerating Resnick's drug use to attack her credibility. Resnick's "very slight drug use during the relevant time period is immaterial," he said. Resnick, 37, a friend of Nicole Simpson's, wrote a tell-all book about her life.
Her attorney, Leonard Marks, said she testified that Simpson had used cocaine and offered her some in the past, Marks said. Nicole Simpson also told her that Simpson used drugs during his football career, Marks said.