Ruby Wax recalls OJ Simpson made 'stabbing motions with a banana' on her hotel room door after acquittal

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Comedian Ruby Wax has shed light on her unforgettable BBC interview with disgraced NFL player, OJ Simpson, who died of cancer at age 76 on April 10, saying that he shammed to stab her with a banana.

In 1998, the comedian interviewed Simpson for her BBC docuseries 'Ruby Wax Meets...' after he was famously and controversially acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

OJ Simpson knocked on Ruby Wax's hotel room door

Wax, while referencing the interview, which was filmed for about 17 hours, penned in an April 13 article for The Times that Simpson knocked on her hotel room door in Los Angeles and made “stabbing motions with a banana held above his head while screeching.”

“I wasn’t scared,” Wax wrote. “I just thought he was insane. I also immediately thought this was very good television.”

OJ Simpson joked about killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson

Wax wrote that after the incident, Simpson’s agent, Mike Gilbert, said Simpson often liked to imitate films. She compared Simpson’s stabbing movements to those in Alfred Hitchcock's film 'Psycho'.

She also wrote that Simpson joked about killing his ex-wife, calling Wax shortly after filming ended and saying, "Hi, it's O.J. I did it.”

Simpson then claimed his statement was an April Fool's joke and hung up, Wax wrote. The TV personality noted that Simpson denied his involvement in the murders when she asked him about the killings during the interview.

OJ Simpson was sued in civil court  following his acquittal

Following his acquittal, Simpson was sued in civil court by the Brown and Goldman families. He had been ordered to pay them $33.5 million after he was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit in 1997.

However, before Simpson's death, an attorney for Goldman's father claimed Simpson owed the family more than $100 million, money which he said has since grown due to interest.

"He died without penance,” Goldman family lawyer David Cook told People of Simpson. “He did not want to give a dime, a nickel to Fred [Goldman], never, anything, never.”

OJ Simpson developed 'delusional' behavior in prison

MEAWW previously reported that OJ Simpson, who died on April 10 after a brief battle with prostate cancer, might have shown signs of brain damage during his stay at the Nevada prison.

After the news of the death of the former NFL player broke, a former prison guard recounted the days of Simpson’s nine-year stay in the Lovelock Correctional Facility in Nevada from 2008 to 2017.

Retired guard Jeffrey Felix, who was posted at the Lovelock Correctional Facility during Simpson’s stay, recently shared with the New York Post that Simpson would often wake up disoriented in his prison cell and wonder where he was, suggesting a possible sign of brain damage.

Felix shared, “He’d wake up in the morning wondering what [his] tee time was for golf, and he’s in a prison.”

The retired guard theorized that Simpson suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It has been found that many retired NFL players develop this concussion-related brain disease because of the injuries received during their careers.