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| July 3, 2001 -- O.J. Simpson now claims his slain wife had been "stalking" him.
Simpson, who called Fox News yesterday to put a new spin on quotes he gave The New Yorker magazine, said that after he broke off his 17-year relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson, she staged a campaign to win back his heart - even following him to Mexico.
"Nicole asked me to take her back - and I said no," he claimed. "She came to the golf course every day.
"When I went to Mexico with five friends, she showed up the next day. Now, I never called that stalking . . . [but] if I were to do that to her, everybody would say that's a clear case of stalking."
It wasn't the first time Simpson claimed Nicole chased him relentlessly after their bust-up, but it was the first time he used the term "stalking."
Simpson also railed over his magazine quotes that he would still "hit" on Nicole "if she had a different head."
He gave this version to Fox: "If I met Nicole today, I would be attracted to her - other than her attitude. If she had a different head, I would feel a little different."
In one of the most explosive quotes in the magazine profile, Simpson referred to his 15-year-old daughter, Sydney, as her "mom all over again. She's got those German genes . . . Those bitches'll wear you out."
On Fox, Simpson backed off, insisting the teen was only "bullheaded" like her mom.
In between badgering the media, Simpson played up his sex appeal, telling Fox he was continually being hit on.
"I think it's sick almost. Now that I have this negative reputation, I've got girls throwing me letters and trying to hit on me. I think that's strange," he said.
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the June 12, 1994, slaying of Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, but was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial in 1996 and ordered to pay their families $33.5 million.
When anchor Shepard Smith asked who in the crowd standing outside the Fox News Channel studio still believes Simpson killed his ex-wife, a sea of hands went up. O.J. refused to take questions from the onlookers.
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