Kris Jenner: I Will Always Feel Guilty About Nicole Brown Simpson's Death.

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More than 20 years after Nicole Brown Simpson's brutal slaying, Kris Jenner says she regrets not being able to save her friend amid signs of what she calls an increasingly abusive relationship with her ex-husband, football player O.J. Simpson.

The 1995 O.J. Simpson criminal trial remains one of the most controversial cases in the United States. The retired football star and actor was found not guilty of killing Nicole, 35, his ex-wife, and her friend Ronald L. Goldman, in her Los Angeles home.

Kris, 59, was friends with both of them and was pregnant with daughter Kendall Jenner, now 19, during the trial. Her ex-husband, Robert Kardashian, father of Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashians, Khloé Kardashian and Rob Kardashian, was a member of O.J.'s "dream team" defense.

In her 2011 memoir, Kris Jenner...and All Things Kardashian, Kris says she spoke to Nicole hours before she was stabbed to death.

"I will always feel guilty that I didn't pay more attention and didn't speak up when I thought anything was wrong or asked her more, 'Do you want to talk about it?'" ABC News quotes Kris as saying in the LMN documentary The Secret Tapes of the O.J. Case: The Untold Story, which premieres on Sept. 30


"At the end of Nicole's life, I think she finally was at a place where she knew she had to be more vocal with what was going on and she was in trouble," Kris says. "The one thing she would tell all of us by the time, you know, it got to that level was, 'He's going to kill me and he's going to get away with it.'"

Kris says on the program that she and Robert never spoke about the trial. She also says O.J. talked to her over the phone from jail while the proceedings were going on and that he told her, "I didn't do it."

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