Nicole Brown Simpson told former lover she'd 'rather die' than return to O.J. Simpson before her murder

Years before Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, Joseph Perrulli said she made a devastating prediction about her future — one he wishes had never come true.The couple was having dinner when Simpson confided that her estranged husband, football star and actor O.J.Simpson, had beaten her "really badly," causing her to black out.Simpson tearfully told Perrulli, "I just prayed something like that would never happen again.
But it did.I'd rather die than go back to that man."RON GOLDMAN’S SISTER, KIM GOLDMAN, SHUTS DOWN ‘MISTRUTHS’ ABOUT HORRIFYING MURDERS: ‘I SEE ALL THE COMMENTS’Joseph Perrulli dated Nicole Brown Simpson in the spring of 1992 when she was separated from O.J.
Simpson.He wrote a book about their brief romance titled "The Forgotten Briefcase." (Courtesy of Joseph Perrulli)On June 12, 1994, Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were found murdered outside her home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Thirty-two years later, Perrulli wrote a memoir, "The Forgotten Briefcase," about their romance."To hear those words — how do you even process it?" Perrulli told Fox News Digital."It disturbed me that night.
I'll never forget waking up and remembering everything she said to me.But I felt confident she would never go back to him.
I saw such strength in her eyes.I figured she wouldn't go back to him."Joseph Perrulli said he fell in love with Nicole Brown Simpson but was unprepared to understand the lasting effects of domestic abuse at a time when it was rarely discussed.
(Courtesy of Joseph Perrulli)Perrulli first met Simpson in 1989 through their mutual friend, Kris Jenner.But it wasn't until 1992, after Simpson filed for divorce from O.J., that they reconnected — and Perrulli said the woman he met then was almost unrecognizable from the one he'd first encountered years earlier."The Forgotten Briefcase" by Joseph Perrulli is available now.
(4 Pillars Publishing)"When I first met her, I suspected something was going on in her life," Perru...