It will be 30 years next month Nicole Brown Simpson she was found dead outside her home in Brentwood, California.
Brown Simpson's ex-husband and former NFL star OJ Simpson was acquitted of murder in the murders of Brown Simpson and his friend, Ron Goldman, in what was called “trial of the centurySimpson, who died in April, was later found responsible for her death by a jury in a civil trial. No one else has been tried in connection with the killings.
Now her sisters, Denise, Dominique and Tanya, and many of her loved ones are speaking out in a new four-part documentary series, “The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson.”
“I actually started conversations 10 years ago for the 20th anniversary, and then it just didn't feel right,” said Brown Simpson's sister, Denise Brown. “And so we tried the 25th anniversary and it didn't feel right then either. And then I asked my sisters, I said, 'Do you want to do something?' Let's humanize Nicole. Let's let Nicole's voice be heard. tell her story, let's tell it to the world so people know who Nicole really was.”
Denise Brown said in an interview with “CBS Mornings” that during the process of creating the documentary, they learned things about her sister that they did not know.
“There are things that are difficult in this documentary, and there are things that we learned from this documentary that took us like, 'Whoa,' it also surprised us. So it was a learning experience for us. It will be a great learning experience for the world to get to know Nicole.”
According to Lifetime, the documentary features 50 participants, who reveal more about Brown Simpson's life and murder at age 35.
“Watching and listening to this documentary, I walked away very angry because I had no idea what a horrible person he was to her,” Tanya Brown said of OJ Simpson.
The sisters also hope the documentary series will shed new light on the resources needed for victims of domestic violence. Denise Brown encouraged people to get involved by volunteering at domestic violence shelters and to consider the shame of being a survivor of domestic violence.
“I asked Nicole all the wrong questions,” Denise Brown said. “I said, 'Why? Why are you with him?' And these are the questions you don't want to ask a victim of domestic violence.
Through heartbreak and tragedy, Brown Simpson's sisters have tried to remember their sister as carefree.
“She was a beach girl, and then she had kids and she loved her kids, and I think she felt that the last two years of her life,” Dominique Brown said. “I think the freedom came back … to see her in that period of time, running around, being with her kids, going to recitals, doing things with the kids and the family and all that. I think that ease for her came back. and I love that. We'd like to remember Nicole smiling.”
