O.J. Simpson reportedly diagnosed with prostate cancer as he denies hospice rumors
O.J. Simpson has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, Las Vegas Local 10 News reported Friday.
The report came amid rumors that he was in hospice, which the disgraced football star shut down via X Friday morning.
“Hospice! You talking about hospice?” Simpson, 76, questioned with a laugh in a video taken inside his car.
“No, I’m not even in the hospital. I don’t know who put that out there.”
He then went on to say that he was getting ready to host “a ton of friends” for a Super Bowl LVIII viewing party on Sunday.
“All is well, you know?” he continued with a smile. “Take care. Have a good Super Bowl weekend!”
The report about Simpson’s health came more than 8 months after he revealed on X he had cancer and COVID-19 at the same time.
He also said he underwent chemotherapy treatments and smoking marijuana “really helped” him through the process.
“In any event, I’m really healthy now. It looks like I beat it,” he cheerfully confirmed in his social media video at the time.
It’s unclear if Friday’s report is referring to a new cancer diagnosis or the cancer he spoke about in May.
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Simpson has been residing in a gated community in Las Vegas following an early parole discharge in December 2022 after he was convicted of an armed robbery in the city.
He was placed on parole in 2017 after serving nine years at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center.
The nine years he spent behind bars was part of a much larger 33-year sentence for an armed robbing of sports memorabilia from dealers in 2007.
Of course, the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee is most known for being acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2019, he called her murder the “worst day” of his life while chatting with the Associated Press, and said he lives each day focusing “on the positives.”
He also raved about how welcoming the Las Vegas community had been to him.
“The town has been good to me,” he said.
“Everybody I meet seems to be apologizing for what happened to me here.”
