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O.J. SIMPSON did not write one word of his controversial book IF I DID IT and rehearsed crying for a never-aired TV interview about the tome, according to a friend of the star.
The former American football star was due to release the book - which places himself at the scene of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994 - last year (06), but it was withdrawn by its publisher 10 days before it was due to be released.
But Simpson’s friend Norm Pardo tells the New York Post’s PageSix column the book was solely written by ReganBooks publisher Judith Regan.
He says, "O.J. told me Judith Regan approached him and said to him, ‘Do you mind if we write a book and put your name on it?’ I said, ‘I don’t care. You can write anything you want, as long as you pay me’.
"O.J. would laugh, ‘Can you believe they’d pay me to say I wrote something I didn’t actually write?’ "A ghostwriter largely based the book on court transcripts from Simpson’s trial." Pardo further claims Simpson "practised crying" for his never-aired interview with Regan.
He says, "O.J. still thinks of himself of an actor.
But Simpson’s lawyer, Yale Galanter, has disputed Pardo’s claims, insisting ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves and Simpson sat down over "many hours and days" to complete the manuscript.
He adds, "I don’t recall any crying."

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