Simpson: Media Made America Feel Bad He Is Also Angry At Victims’ Families For Not Being ‘True To Memory Of Nicole’

O.J. Simpson blamed the media Wednesday night for turning many Americans against him, and expressed anger at relatives of the people he was acquitted of killing.

“I have a side of me that is very angry at Fred Goldman and the Browns,” Simpson said in his first in-depth interview since the murders of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.

Simpson also said in the live interview with Black Entertainment Television that Nicole Brown Simpson’s sisters “haven’t been true to the memory of Nicole.”

“What they’ve done … has been very self-serving,” said Simpson, who accused the women of selling “unflattering pictures” of Nicole to “the rags.”

Simpson also lashed out at the media.

“I think the media is the main reason why America is feeling the way they’re feeling,” he said. “… They were lied to.”

“I’m as innocent as anyone else out there,” Simpson said.

Asked point-blank whether he killed Nicole Simpson and Goldman, Simpson said, “No, I did not commit those murders. I couldn’t kill anyone, and I don’t know of anyone who was involved.”

The channel promised it would be a no-holds-barred session, with no topic off limits. But Simpson refused to discuss specifics, citing his contract with a video producer and a pending civil lawsuit against him.

“I can’t really talk about the evidence in the case,” he said.

He also wouldn’t talk about a celebration at his house the evening after his acquittal. He said that information was contained on the videotape he was selling by mail-order.

“I hope that I get a chance to sit down with you after the video is out, and then we’ll talk about that party - that alleged party,” he said.

Simpson said he was “a little surprised” by protests when he initially agreed to be interviewed by NBC News after his Oct. 3 acquittal. He blamed the protest on a “certain special interest.”