Gwyneth Paltrow’s ongoing ski accident trial has captured the eye of an sudden commentator, who himself has in depth expertise in a courtroom setting: O.J. Simpson, who took to social media Wednesday morning to weigh in on the saga.
In his most well-liked posting medium of video uploaded to Twitter, Simpson shared that years in the past, he, like Paltrow, had gotten into a few scrapes at Deer Valley, the resort the place the contested collision between the actress and retiree Terry Sanderson came about in 2016.
“I used to be watching at present, I noticed the run that their accident occurred on, it was the identical run that my accidents occurred [on] at Deer Valley, and I don’t know how one can decide whose fault it was,” Simpson mentioned. “I crashed with the identical girl twice on one run, and if you happen to ask me, it was her fault and I’m positive if you happen to requested her, it was my fault. I’m simply saying, it’s a part of snowboarding.”
This morning, Simpson mentioned, he’d been scrolling via the information when he’d occurred upon protection of Paltrow’s trial.
“I’m pondering, ‘Yeah, Deer Valley bought some fairly slender runs,’” Simpson mentioned. “I had a buddy named Alan and he owned a pair properties up there, so Nicole and I, we went snowboarding up there.”
Simpson is, in fact, referring to his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, whose brutal 1994 homicide he was acquitted of committing a 12 months later on the end result of the ‘Trial of the Century.’
“I’m flying down this run, and on the final minute, this woman is type of turning from my left and she or he comes all the best way type of throughout, and we crash and we each go down,” Simpson mentioned, “We type of checked out one another, ‘Are you all proper?’ And she or he mentioned ‘Yeah, I’m all proper,’ she requested me if I used to be all proper, and we have been fairly congenial as we bought our stuff collectively, type of chuckled about it, you already know, ‘Be careful! Watch out.’ She leaves, and Nicole or Alan got here up, and we talked a little bit bit, and we take off once more.”
“Proper earlier than we resolve the run, I might see this individual on my proper making this huge sweeping flip, and I mentioned, ‘There’s no method this individual is gonna come proper in entrance of me,’ and bam! We hit once more. Seems it’s the identical lady, and we weren’t as congenial this time.”
“Deer Valley is stylish, it’s a stupendous place, [but] I by no means went again, primarily as a result of I didn’t just like the runs,” Simpson continued. “I believed they have been actual slender, actually far narrower than many of the locations that I went snowboarding. However accidents occur snowboarding, I don’t understand how you may attempt to sue anyone for crashes on a ski slope. You see it on a regular basis.”
Simpson additionally shared an anecdote about watching Robert Kardashian snowboarding instantly right into a tree in Aspen. “I’m gonna be trustworthy,” he added. “I don’t know if Bob ever went snowboarding after that.”