Apparently O.J. Simpson Is Suicidal, On Hunger Strike In Prison

Hall of Fame NFL running back O.J. Simpson is, according to mostly tabloid reports at this point, currently on a hunger strike in prison. He’s “dropping weight fast, and it’s scaring the hell out of his few remaining friends,” that according to the National Enquirer. 

Although the source isn’t particularly reputable, the story has legs because Simpson was recently diagnosed with brain cancer, which is said to be fatal. Making the 33-years he’s serving in a Nevada prison, in essence, a death sentence.

The Enquirer’s source continued, “He just won’t eat, and you can tell by his voice that he just wants to die. That’s exactly what is going to happen to him unless some good news drops out of the sky to cheer him up and give him reason to live. However, that doesn’t seem likely.”

Good new isn’t coming—Simpson’s appeals for a new trial have been turned down and he won’t be eligible for parole until 2017. Given his recent cancer diagnosis and the fact that he turned 66 last July, the fatalistic nature attributed to Simpson by the report is understandable.

That’s not to suggest Simpson is going to get a lot of sympathy from the outside world. Though the sentence he’s serving is widely regarded as excessive for the crime, that “injustice” is generally written off as karmic retribution for a sentence he’ll never serve.

Obviously that’s a reference to Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in Los Angeles courtroom for the murder of his wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman the year prior. His acquittal sparked fears that the 1992 riots following the acquittal of police officers in the Rodney King beating would again erupt.

Since then Simpson has allegedly confessed his alleged guilt in a number of ways to a number of people, but nothing in a way that would allow the public—not to mention the LAPD—officially close the Nicole Brown double murder case.

It should be mentioned that after the news of Simpson’s cancer became public in early January, his lawyer, Osvaldo E. Fomo, categorically denied the story and the reports about him seeking a presidential pardon from the White House that soon followed.

That being said, considering the widespread reach of the reports regarding Simpson’s health, it’s hard to imagine his camp would stop at a single denial if there were absolutely no truth to the claims.

If the situation is indeed as dire as the Enquirer paints it to be, we won’t have to wait long for answers.