It has been reported that OJ Simpson, who recently passed away battling prostate cancer, would wake up in his Nevada prison cell and wouldn’t know where he was. This a possible sign of brain damage as a retired guard recalled via NY Post.
“He’d wake up in the morning wondering what [his] tee time was for golf, and he’s in a prison,” Jeffrey Felix, who worked at Lovelock Correctional Facility during Simpson’s nine-year stint there, told the outlet.
It has been noted that his theory is that the former running back great suffered from CTE – chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a concussion-related brain disease that plagues many retired NFL players.
Simpson was “very forgetful,” Felix said, adding that Juice often spaced on taking his medication and dinner time in the clink, and regularly suffered from headaches.
“I think he had that CTE thing from…the tackles and the helmet collisions.”
During his nine seasons with the Buffalo Bills, Simpson claimed his team’s linebackers, who were “jealous” of the star, pummeled him during drills.
“In practice, they’d light him up,” Felix recalled.
“He took a lot of hits . . . he took more hits in practice than on the football field.”
It’s worth noting that Simpson’s confusion extended to his confessions about the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman.
While in his cell, the Juice shared with Felix “Only two people know who killed Nicole Brown Simpson: [me] and Al Cowlings.”
Cowlings was the longtime friend who infamously drove the white Ford Bronco with Simpson in a low-speed police chase across Los Angeles before he was charged with the killings.But later, Simpson insisted to Felix that when free, he planned on looking for the “actual murderer.”
