OJ Simpson reportedly diagnosed with prostate cancer as he denies hospice rumors
OJ Simpson has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, Las Vegas Local 10 News reported Friday.
The report comes amid rumors he is in Dharamshala, which the disgraced football star shut down x through friday morning,
“Hospice! Are you talking about Dharamshala?” Simpson, 76, asked while laughing in a video taken inside his car.
“No, I am not even in the hospital. I don’t know who put it there.”
He then said he was getting ready to host “a ton of friends” for a Super Bowl LVIII watching party on Sunday.
“Everything’s okay, you know?” He kept smiling. “Take care of yourself. Have a great Super Bowl weekend!”
The report about Simpson’s health came more than 8 months after his X was diagnosed with cancer And COVID-19 at the same time.
He also said that he underwent chemotherapy treatments and that smoking marijuana “really helped” him with the process.
“In any case, I’m really healthy now. “Feels like I beat it,” he happily confirmed in his social media video at the time.
It’s unclear whether Friday’s report is referring to a new cancer diagnosis or the cancer he talked about in May.
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Simpson is living in a gated community in Las Vegas after being granted early parole in December 2022 after pleading guilty to an armed robbery in the city.
He was paroled in 2017 after serving nine years at Nevada’s Lovelock Correctional Center.
The nine years he spent behind bars were part of a much larger 33-year sentence for the armed robbery of sports memorabilia from dealers in 2007.
Of course, the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee is best known for his acquittal of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 2019, he spoke to The Associated Press calling her murder “the worst day” of his life, and said he lived every day focusing “on the positivity.”
He also praised how welcoming the Las Vegas community has been to him.
“This city has been good to me,” he said.
“Everyone I meet seems to be apologizing for what happened to me here.”
