Judith Regan, the originally scheduled publisher of If I Did It, told Fox that a lawyer for O.J. Simpson called her and said he wanted to write his book as a confessional but posited the title as a hypothetical to shield his children from the truth about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
"I received a phone call from an attorney who said that O.J. was ready to confess," Regan told Fox in an outtake from an upcoming television special scheduled to air March 11, according to TMZ. "Actually I thought it was some kind of a scam and didn't believe him, but I took his number and said I'd call him back.