Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Tanya broke down in tears on The View as she paid an emotional tribute to her late brother, lamenting the fact that many remember OJ Simpson’s murdered wife as simply a “body at the bottom of a staircase.” .
Tanya made an appearance during Friday’s live episode of the ABC chat show, alongside her sisters Dominique and Denise, ahead of the release of her Lifetime documentary The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.
After discussing the 1994 murder of Brown Simpson and speculation surrounding her husband OJ’s involvement, panelist Ana Navarro, 52, asked how Tanya would like to remember her late brother.
“I think people remember Nicole as the body at the bottom of a staircase covered in a bloody white sheet and as a battered woman and Simpson’s wife,” Tanya began.
“Nicole was a daughter, a sister, a very good wife and a very good mother, and she was a human being who walked this Earth and she was wonderful.”
Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Tanya broke down in tears on The View as she paid an emotional tribute to the late star.
Next month will mark the 30th anniversary of the murder of Brown Simpson, of which her husband OJ was acquitted.
At this point, Tanya became visibly upset and began to choke.
“She would literally take her shirt off her back to make sure you had somewhere to go for a holiday, a birthday, a Christmas,” he continued, before having to take a breath to compose himself.
“I’m the one who cries in the family, I’m sorry.”
Explaining her emotions, Tanya added: “You see, my sadness comes from the fact that I’m much younger and I was just getting to know her and then her candle went out, but she was actually a simple girl.”
‘She was, you know, denim and diamonds. Like you could take her to the beach and the White House in one day.
Brown Simpson was 35 years old when she was brutally stabbed outside her Los Angeles home on June 15, 1995. She was murdered along with her boyfriend Ronald Goldman, who was 25 years old at the time.
Her young children, Sydney, 38, and Justin, 35, were just eight and five years old, respectively, when she was murdered.
Panelist Ana Navarro (pictured) asked Tanya how she would like to remember her late brother.
Tanya, Denise and Nicole during their youth, when she worked as a waitress, planned to study photography and met her future husband.
Tanya praised her late sister for being a devoted mother to her children Sydney and Justin, who were just eight and five years old, respectively, when their mother was murdered.
Brown Simpson’s late husband, Simpson, He was acquitted of all criminal charges, although in 1997 a civil jury found the soccer star liable for wrongful death.
Following Brown Simpson’s death, her sister Dominique said she found his handwritten personal journals that detailed many of the times Simpson had physically hit her and the injuries he had inflicted.
Simpson himself died on April 10 at the age of 76 after a battle with prostate cancer.
Earlier this week, Brown Simpson’s sisters revealed their “happiness” upon learning that her ex-spouse and alleged killer Simpson was dead, and her sister Denise spoke about the relief she felt after learning of the NFL star’s passing. .
“That day I was happy. When I heard the news, I thought, ‘Oh my God, finally,'” she described his reaction to his passing.
From the last photo of the Brown family, taken on Mother’s Day 1994. Showing from left to right, Denise, Nicole, Dominique, mother Juditha and youngest Tanya.
Simpson shows the jury a new pair of oversized Aris gloves, similar to gloves found at a Los Angeles crime scene during his double murder trial, which has inspired controversy.
“But then I realized, ‘Wait a minute, there’s Sydney and Justin,'” Denise continued.
“I thought, ‘Wow, okay. “I’m happy for me, I don’t have to look over my shoulder anymore,” Denise clarified. She wasn’t afraid of him.
‘He was always there, his presence, they always talked about him in the media, things always happened, but then it was that sadness for the children because now they don’t have a mother or a father.
‘So yeah, it was difficult. “It was hard,” Denise added.
“It was very overwhelming,” Dominique admitted.
