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How I Did It: Judith Regan Remembers the Day O.J. Simpson (Almost) Confessed

In an exclusive for The Hollywood Reporter, the A-list book editor writes about her harrowing five-hour, on-camera conversation with Simpson in 2006, so controversial it didn’t make it onto the airwaves until 2018 (and in the meantime, nearly destroyed her career).

Enter Rupert Murdoch, known throughout the land — or at least to a professor I know who described him to me just yesterday as “the perpetrator of evil on a galactic scale, wreaking havoc on the world, destroying the lives of an unaccountable number of people.” (My response: “I am not sure how that happened since he mumbles in a very thick Aussie accent and is hard to understand.”) Anyway, Fox stepped in, desperately needing something big for sweeps, and days later, instead of Babs, I found myself sitting in this warehouse in Florida with very lovely hair and makeup done, my stiletto heels pointed toward Him, that top-notch five-camera crew encircling us. In life, we learn repeatedly what Mr. Anderson and Shakespeare taught me in the middle of my saddest high school days: that the stories of our vainglorious pursuits of fame, fortune, beauty and winning at any cost are tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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