During a November 2019 episode of ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians,’ Kris Jenner refuted rumors of an affair with O.J. Simpson, who died at age 76 on April 10

Nearly five years before O.J. Simpson’s death, Kris Jenner teared up over tabloid rumors of an affair with the controversial former athlete.

During a November 2019 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Jenner, 68, reacted to articles circulating about a romance between her and Simpson, who was married to Jenner’s late best friend Nicole Brown Simpson at the time. She expressed particular irritation that the rumors surfaced on the anniversary of Brown Simpson’s death.

“They printed a story that I was sleeping with O.J.,” she told daughter Khloé Kardashian. “That f—ing piece of s—. It’s really kind of pathetic that when rumors get started, the media gives it life and breath and on the anniversary of Nicole’s death. It’s so tasteless and disgusting.”