Kris Jenner
Kris Jenner has by far been the most vocal member of the Kardashian family, as she considered Nicole Brown, OJ’s murdered ex-wife, one of her best friends. While she hasn’t responded to his death publicly, we can get a sense of how she felt about him from various past interviews.
In a 2015 Lifetime Movie Network documentary interview, Kris said that one of her biggest regrets was that she “didn’t pay more attention” to red flags. “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 said. “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.’”
As a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2016, Kris said she felt like she had failed Nicole as a friend. “We felt like we really failed her as a friend,” she said. “You know, you go through this and you discover things about somebody, and it was horrible.”
The timing was unfortunate, too. “She and I were supposed to have lunch the day after she was murdered,” Jenner recalled. “She said she wanted to show me some things and talk about what was in her safe. So now, unfortunately, it all makes sense … That’s probably what she wanted to reveal to me that next day, which broke my heart because I will always feel horrible that I didn’t pay enough attention.”
She’d learned about Nicole’s death when her mom called. “[Nicole’s] mom called me,” Kris recalled. “I had known O.J. since I was 17 years old. When I met Robert I met O.J., so that was a very long time ago. He was like a big brother to me, and that morning I was coming back from taking the kids to school and I was supposed to meet Nicole. I was going to change and go and meet her, and the phone rang. My assistant said, ‘Judy’s on the phone,’ and I said to tell her, ‘I’ll call her right back.’”
