Nicole Brown Simpson told former lover she'd 'rather die' than return to O.J. Simpson before her murder

Years before Nicole Brown Simpson's murder, Joseph Perrulli said she made a devastating prediction about her future — one he wishes had never come true. The couple was having dinner when Simpson confided that her estranged husband, football star and actor O.J. Simpson, had beaten her "really badly," causing her to black out. Simpson tearfully told Perrulli, "I just prayed something like that would never happen again. But it did. I'd rather die than go back to that man." RON GOLDMAN’S SISTER, KIM