Nicole Brown Simpson refused to take O.J. Simpson's phone calls and hurled an expletive at him just hours before her murder, Faye Resnick testified, according to deposition transcripts obtained Friday.
Resnick also spoke frankly about her drug problem, acknowledging she free-based cocaine "once or twice" at Nicole Simpson's house in the weeks prior to the murders.She also said she was suffering financial problems after she broke up with her fiance, who also was her employer.
"It was a horrific time in my life," she said of late May and early June 1994. "I was nervous for Nicole's well-being, due to the threats that were made by O.J. I was nervous for myself because O.J. had told me that I had betrayed him by not telling him that Nicole was planning on leaving him."
In her testimony in New York last week, Resnick painted a picture of Simpson as increasingly angry, frustrated and obsessed with his ex-wife after a breakup in May 1994, according to the transcripts obtained by The Associated Press.
Much of the testimony in the wrongful death lawsuit against O.J. Simpson mirrored episodes Res-nick recounted in her September 1994 book: "Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted."
The lawsuit, filed by the parents of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, goes to trial April 2.
Under questioning by plaintiff's attorney Daniel Petrocelli, Resnick testified that she spoke with Nicole Simpson at 9 p.m. on June 12, 1994. Prosecutors have placed Nicole Simpson's murder at about 10:20 p.m. that night.
Resnick testified Nicole Simpson told her about a dance recital she attended for her daughter just hours before her death. O.J. Simpson also attended.
"She said she told him to leave her alone, that he was not welcome in her family any longer, that he was not welcome to join them for dinner," Resnick testified. "She said he was in a deep, dark mood, and she said that he had been trying to get a hold of her and she wasn't returning his phone calls, or that she wasn't talking to him."
Later, under cross-examination by O.J. Simpson attorney Dan Leon-ard, Resnick confirmed a passage in her book in which Nicole Simpson used an expletive to get her point across to Simpson.
O.J. Simpson was acquitted in October in the stabbing deaths of Nicole Simpson and Goldman.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For money, he'll talk
O.J. Simpson says he'll answer questions from anyone - even his prosecutor - if he gets paid for it.
"Tomorrow, if (chief prosecutor) Marcia Clark would sit down and talk to me, she can film it as long as I can market it," Simpson told interviewer Ross Becker in his made-for-profit video.
Simpson's comments were taken from a three-minute excerpt released to the media Friday from the two-hour video he's selling by mail for $29.95.
Videos were being mailed to buyers Friday.
The first excerpt showed the former football star casually attired in a white sweater discussing recouping the money he spent defending himself on murder charges.