Sydney Brooke Simpson was just eight years old on that fateful day twenty years ago when her mother, Nicole Brown Simpson was found dead, and her father, O.J. Simpson was named the primary suspect. Through all the ups and downs of the trials and her father's ongoing legal issues, she's managed to build a life for herself outside of the spotlight and now, on the anniversary of the murder, her ex-boyfriend is speaking out exclusively to Breaking Celebrity News about the "strong" woman she's become — and whether she thinks her dad is guilty of killing her mother.

"Sydney is a real good girl and she has a good head on her shoulders," Stuart Alexander Lee, who dated Sydney from roughly 2007 to 2012 tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively. "She's not lazy. She works very hard."

After graduating from Boston University, where she met Lee, the couple moved to Atlanta, where she began working as an events coordinator at luxurious Atlanta restaurant The Canoe. And Lee says that during their relationship, she told him she had no intention of endangering her normal life by speaking out about her dad and the murders.

"She doesn't understand that her story could help someone else," Lee says. "When I was with her, I got friends in the industry I tried to set her up with and she said fame is a scary thing. It's so real to tell your side of the story."

"Everybody contacts her to speak out," he claims. "She could be an inspiration to so many people, but she's scared. She doesn't understand. Hopefully one day she will."

But in private, he says, "She talked about the murders, of course. Of course