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BILL COSBY: Beverly Johnson Comes Forward

In perhaps the most damaging accusation against Bill Cosby yet, '70s supermodel Beverly Johnson has come forward and claimed that the TV star drugged her in his home in the 1980s.

 

In a first-person essay in Vanity Fair, Johnson, the first African-American model to grace the cover of American Vouge, recalls how Cosby invited her to his New York brownstone to rehearse lines for an episode of The Cosby Show she was set to appear in.

 

Johnson says she brought her young daughter on her first visit and Cosby acted like a gentleman. But when she returned by herself a week later, it was a different story. She says that after serving her dinner, Cosby took her upstairs to a living room, where he insisted she try out his home espresso machine -- a rarity in the '80s. Johnson writes that she knew "by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I’d been drugged -- and drugged good."

 

Johnson says that even though she was woozy and the room was beginning to spin, she confronted Cosby as he put his hands around her waist, saying, "You're a [MF], aren't you?" She continued to curse at him, at which point he grabbed her "by my left arm hard and yanking all 110 pounds of me down a bunch of stairs as my high heels clicked and clacked on every step. I feared my neck was going to break with the force he was using to pull me down those stairs." Johnson says that an "engaged" Cosby then put her in a cab, which took her home -- where she slept for an entire day.

 

The model claims she called Cosby several days later to confront him, but was shocked when his wife Camille picked up the phone and demanded to know why she was calling her husband late at night. "I didn’t call back the next day or any other day after that. At a certain moment it became clear that I would be fighting a losing battle with a powerful man so callous he not only drugged me, but he also gave me the number to the bedroom he shared with his wife... In the end, just like the other women, I had too much to lose to go after Bill Cosby."

 

Johnson says she ultimately decided to come forward after seeing how her friend Janice Dickinson "was raked over the coals for telling her account of rape at Cosby’s hands. Over the years I’ve met other women who also claim to have been violated by Cosby. Many are still afraid to speak up. I couldn’t sit back and watch the other women be vilified and shamed for something I knew was true."

 

Vanity Fair says Cosby and his attorneys did not respond to its requests for him to comment on the story.

 

The Quickies:

It kind of seems like this is going to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

Does Beverly's story carry more weight for you? Especially as she's a famous and successful African-American?

Cosby's lawyers and PR people surely have him on lockdown, but he's doing himself no favors by keeping quiet.

photo via stiletto-nation

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