The Sister of Nicole Brown Simpson Speaks Out

Ed Mylett (0:00)

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Denise Brown (1:06)

This is The Ed Mylett Show.

Ed Mylett (1:09)

Welcome back to the show, everybody. So this interview is, I don't know, 30 some odd years in the making. And 32 years in the making. And I really wanted to talk to this woman for a really, really long time. I was just telling her off camera, ironically, I know her other sister, Tanya, and I've met her parents several times because I was in business with somebody connected to their family. And I've just admired her from a distance, the way that she's carried herself all these years in the public eye and through some really, really difficult times. So let me tell you about her. You probably know first her sister, who is Nicole Brown Simpson. And you know that she lost her life in a very tragic event. And since that time, I've watched Denise become this just tremendous advocate for women, violence against women.

The Violence Against Women Act was a big thing that she was involved in.

And she's just a stalwart for people that are taken advantage of, and particularly women that are being abused. And so we're going to talk about her sister today. We're going to talk about a little bit of what happened there. And also just overall, this just epidemic it seems to be of violence is happening towards women in our world today. And she's written a book that is out today, if you're watching this interview, called For My Sister Nicole, Love Shouldn't Hurt.

Denise Brown, welcome to the show.

Denise Brown (2:27)

Thank you so much for having me.

Ed Mylett (2:29)

I'm so glad you're here. Why now are you writing this book about your sister and the events that took place? Why is this the time to do it?

Denise Brown (2:37)

Well, I think everything runs its course, right? I was not educated about domestic violence. I didn't know anything about it. I was reading her notes and diaries after my sister Dominique found them, when my dad and her were up in Los Angeles cleaning out her condo.

So when I read these, because I was the first one to come out and say, no, Nicole's not a battered woman.

I did an interview with the New York Times saying no, because I did not know what a battered woman was. And I think that it's taken me this long to actually realize that, hey, you know what? You do know what you're talking about now. You do understand domestic violence now. I mean, I learned something new every single day. And the one horrific thing that I did learn just recently was on a podcast that Oprah Winfrey did with Rachel Louie Snyder, that because back in the day, 32 years ago, it was always one in four women who would fall victim to domestic violence. Then it was maybe one in three. Well, just this year, one in two women.

Ed Mylett (3:55)

My gosh.

Denise Brown (3:56)

So that for me was like, oh my gosh, are we going backwards? What is happening in our country? And so anyhow, so I just felt like even one in three was too many, one in four is too many. One woman is too many. So I just felt like after 32 years, I felt like finally, Denise, you know, you did a lot of wrong things. There's a lot of ways that you could have handled this differently with Nicole, you know? So I feel like, okay, finally, I've matured enough.