OJ SIMPSON is glad his controversial book IF I DID IT has been scrapped, because he felt it was “too much like an admission of guilt.”

The former American football star was paid an alleged $1.1 million for the book, which hypothetically places him at the scene of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife NICOLE SIMPSON and Goldman.

The book was due for release on November 30, but his contract was terminated by News Corp head RUPERT MURDOCH ten days prior to publication – and publisher JUDITH REGAN was sacked.

But Simpson insists he never wanted the ghost-written account to hit stores because it was not a true representation of how he would have acted, had he been involved in the killings.

He says, “I wasn’t happy with the hypothetical paragraphs. A ghostwriter wrote the whole thing, and I OK’d it. But there were a lot of inaccuracies about the case and about how I would have done things. But I figure I’d let it go since I didn’t kill anyone.”

But the 59-year-old insists he has no regrets about the public outcry and the failed lawsuit filed by Ron Goldman’s father, which attempted to seize Simpson’s profits from If I Did It.

He adds, “I don’t care. I got paid just the same.”

Simpson was famously acquitted of criminal murder charges in 1995, but a civil jury found Simpson responsible for their deaths and he was subsequently ordered to pay $33.5 million to their heirs – which he has yet to hand over.

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