Another TMZ report claimed that O.J. Simpson was "incredibly frail and virtually unrecognizable" in his final days and was unable to get out of his bed by himself. The prostate cancer — which was not in remission at all — allegedly took its toll on his health in the 11 months before his death. Sources reportedly told the outlet Simpson was frequently at the hospital in the six months before his death and at one point caught pneumonia before entering hospice care two weeks before his death. He reportedly slept a lot and "was in and out of consciousness."
In a May 2023 video on X (known as Twitter at the time), Simpson said he had caught cancer in recent years and completed chemotherapy. "It looks like I beat it. I'm happy about that," he said. Two months before his death, in February 2024, he posted another video to X in which he denied the rumors he was in hospice care — though he did not address the report from the same day that claimed he was diagnosed with cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.
