REUTERS

Former football star O.J. Simpson (L) is set to confess to murdering his wife, Nicole, on Oprah. REUTERS/Colin Braley

Will OJ Simpson sensationally confess to the murder of his wife Nicole during Oprah’s televised finale spectacular?

According to the Daily Mail, Simpson has already told the talk show queen that he knifed his wife to death in self defence, a revelation he is set to repeat as Oprah wraps up her stint as the world’s premiere talk show host.

Oprah, however, is playing mum. According to the Chicago Sun and the Hollywood Reporter, she denies that OJ told her he did it, but hinted that extracting that confession wouldn’t be that hard.

“And I am going to make that happen people,” Oprah said, adding that it was “not that lofty” a goal.

“I don’t just want the interview. I want the interview on the condition that you are ready, Mr. Simpson.”

Simpson, currently serving a nine year sentence for a robbery and kidnapping conviction in Las Vegas in 2008, was famously acquitted of murdering his wife and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1995, even though the evidence seemed stacked against him.

According to the National Enquirer, the former pro-footballer has been in contact with Oprah for the past year, and eventually decided to go through with his confession in what should prove to be a major coup for Oprah’s OWN network, currently suffering in the ratings polls.

“Tell Oprah that yes, I did it. I killed Nicole, but it was in self-defence. She pulled a knife on me and I had to defend myself,” Simpson reportedly said when contacted by one of Oprah’s producers.

He then allegedly gave a full account of what happened on the night of the murders on June 12 1994.

In his alleged testimony, Simpson said he and his wife had got into an argument at a restaurant.

“OJ said he went home and kept getting angrier and angrier and worked himself into an absolute rage,” a source told the Enquirer.

Simpson allegedly told the producer that he “didn't like the way she treated me in front of the kids at the restaurant. I didn't like that she was routinely having guys have sex with her at her condo with the kids there.

“I went over there to give her a piece of my mind,” he is quoted as saying.

When he arrived at the house, Nicole confronted him with a knife, Simpson is alleged to have told the producer.

“She was yelling go away! Go away! And waving the knife around at me. At one point she was lunging at me with the knife and I was just trying to talk to her. Nicole stepped out of the apartment - slashing the knife in the air,” continued the source.

'“I was in such a rage that something just snapped. I couldn't take her constant taunting of me with other men or her using drugs and drinking while my kids were living with her. I went beserk.

'“Before I knew what I was doing I took the knife away from Nicole and started slashing at her. I cut her over and over again until she was lifeless. I was shocked at my own anger – I had killed the woman I had loved for so long...”

Simpson then allegedly also knifed Ron Goldman in self-defence. According to the source, Simpson claims that Goldman tried to attack him when he saw Nicole’s lifeless body.

Simpson was acquitted in 1995 and has always insisted that he did not commit the murders. After the bodies were found, Simpson embarked on a bizarre slow-speed chase with police that kept almost 100-million people glued to their screens as they watched the events unfold. Simpson held a gun to his own head during the chase, while a friend drove the vehicle.

Despite the evidence against him – bloodstains in the car, the bloody glove containing the DNA from both victims, and tapes of a terrified Nicole begging for help as Simpson beat her – he was found not guilty of the murders.

By confessing to Oprah on TV, Simpson will open many wounds, but he won’t have to fear the law.

Because of the double jeopardy law, a second trial is forbidden after an acquittal. - IOL