Former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner has defended her tweet celebrating the death of the Kardashian family's friend O.J. Simpson.
After receiving backlash for snarkily tweeting 'good riddance' in the immediate wake of the former NFL star's passing from prostate cancer on Wednesday at age 76, the reality star, 74, slammed social media users that pointed out she was involved in a four-car pile-up, that left one person dead, back in 2015.
Jenner's tweet on Thursday sparked renewed attention to her 2015 car crash , which resulted in the tragic death of a woman named Kim Howe 'YOU still were the CAUSE of the accident and YOU were the CAUSE of someone's DEATH AND paid your way out of it. No THAT isn't cute at all. Hypocrite. Never did like you as Caitlyn,' a third claimed.At the time, Jenner's attorney wrote in court documents, obtained by ET, that Jenner was being chased and harassed 'throughout the day' and 'up through the time of the incident.
'Rest in peace to Kim Howe, the woman killed in a multi-car crash caused by Caitlyn Jenner,' one X user wrote Kris's ex-husband, Robert Kardashian, went on to represent OJ at his murder trial - a decision that haunted the family for decades. His two other children from a previous marriage remained close with him until his death. He had a third child, Aaren, with his first wife, Marguerite, but Aaren died shortly before her second birthday in a pool drowning.
He concluded: 'I have nothing to say about him. My response will not be about OJ's death but about he loss of my son's life by him.Robert Kardashian served as one of OJ's defense attorneys during Simpson's murder trial for the 1994 stabbing deaths of Brown and her friend Ron Goldman.'It was an extraordinarily difficult time,' Jenner said. 'Nicole was Kris' best friend. Had been for a long time.
The infamous White Bronco chase as police were trying to arrest OJ Simpson in connection to the deaths of Brown and Goldman'We have both come out of the same world of the male athlete with all its stereotypes and behavioral expectations, a type of identity that I come to call the male athlete gender,' wrote the former Olympian.
'I wonder if this contributed to my feelings of awkwardness around him, that even if he embodied an archetype that people expected from me. She told E! News at the time: 'I have not watched it. Unfortunately, I lived it. There's no need to bring up painful memories.'
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