Marcia Clark Moves On
InStyle|September 2018

With a Revamped Career That Includes Books and Television, the Famed Prosecutor Is Proof That Staying Positive Works

Samantha Simon
Marcia Clark Moves On

My life is so different now from what it was in the ’90s. 

As a prosecutor, I got up every morning and went to court. That’s what I did. I thought I was going to do that job forever, but the day the jury returned its verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial, I walked out of the D.A.’s office and never went back. I just couldn’t do it anymore.

In the aftermath of the trial, all I wanted to do was crawl into a hole and never come out again. But I couldn’t afford to do that. I had a family to support. And I still wanted to live a purposeful life and contribute somehow. I said to myself, “You might not feel like standing up right now, but you’ve got to set wheels in motion.” The question was, Which wheels?

I started with the first opportunity that presented itself: to write a book about the trial. I had always loved the idea of writing but never had the guts to go for it until then. Next came speaking engagements, TV commentary, and hosting cable-news talk shows. All of it was so foreign to me. It felt as if I were stepping off a cliff into the unknown every day.

This story is from the September 2018 edition of InStyle.

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