O.J. Simpson makes awkward ‘confession’ joke on podcast

O.J. Simpson won’t be confessing any time soon.

The Pro Football Hall of Famer responded to Shaquille O’Neal’s comments about sharing secrets with women on the “It Is What It Is” podcast and opted to go ahead and make it awkward.

“When you say ‘open up to women,’ I don’t know what he’s talking about,” he said during his weekly spot on the show. “Is he talking about confessing? No man, don’t confess. I think he’s right. Don’t say nothing … leave me out of the confession.

“Y’all gotta leave me out of this one.”

The statement drew laughs out of podcast hosts Cam’Ron and Mase, as the rappers connected the not-so-covert reference to Simpson’s non-football infamy.

The running back was tried over the death of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, in 1995.

The case made national headlines and the not-guilty verdict enflamed racial tensions throughout the country.

He was later found liable in a civil trial over their deaths.

Simpson and others — Cam’Ron among them — have maintained his innocence over the years.

Still, Simpson, who last played in the NFL in 1979, has experienced plenty of other legal problems in recent years.

He was acquitted of battery and burglary charges in a 2001 incident in Miami-Dade County, Fla., and investigated later that year after it was claimed he was part of a drug trafficking ring.

In 2007, he was arrested following a Las Vegas robbery in which he was alleged to have taken sports memorabilia at gunpoint.

Simpson was charged with multiple felony counts, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, robbery and using a deadly weapon.

He was found guilty of those charges and sentenced to 33 years in prison in 2008 and released on parole in 2017.