“The story is triggering”: Late NFL WAG Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Tanya is shaken as the Brentwood couple case resurfaces painful memories

In the last episode of Netflix’s American Manhunt: O. J. Simpson series, Simpson’s manager Mike Gilbert explicitly asked him what had happened on the night of the murders (Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman).The 1973 NFL MVP replied, “If Nicole wouldn’t have opened the door with a knife, she would still be alive.” This line sent a chill down the spines of millions who saw the series. For someone who lived through it in real life, like Nicole’s sister Tanya Brown, it is a different story, something we just can’t imagine.TMZ recently reported that American film director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, had their throats slit by a family member, possibly after an argument inside their Los Angeles home. ABC News reported that the couple’s son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested for murder, according to police. This story triggered Tanya, and she opened up to TMZ to share her ordeal.“This story is very triggering…beyond triggering. I’ve shed a lot of tears…it’s very personal to me. When I heard it was stabbing, it brought me back to that time of O. J. killing my sister and Ron.”On June 12, 1994, 35-year-old Nicole had dinner with her family at a Los Angeles restaurant. Ron Goldman, 25, was a waiter there. That night, he went to Brown Simpson’s house to return glasses her mother had left. Around midnight, both Nicole and Ron were found brutally stabbed to death at Brown Simpson’s home.The late former San Francisco 49ers running back O. J. Simpson was considered the prime suspect in the murders of both. Karen Grigsby Bates of Code Switch on NPR, reported in June 2014 that as soon as the “not guilty” verdict was pronounced, calls to reform the jury system began. The reasoning went that Simpson was “let go” because there were nine black jurors and Simpson himself was black.While no one was ever criminally convicted in Nicole and Ron’s murders, Tanya hopes the Reiner family gets justice and that the person responsible does not get away with it. She also hopes the person is rehabilitated. It makes her feel sad for the family. “I hope the person also gets rehabilitated while incarcerated,” Tanya told TMZ. “It makes me feel sad for the family. I feel for them. This didn’t need to happen.”Also Read: Nobody’s talking about Nicole Brown Simpson: O. J. Simpson’s domestic violence victim