The list just keeps growing. As the year comes to closure, more women have come forward accusing legendary entertainer and producer Bill Cosby, 77, of misconduct, which includes drugging and sexual assault. Among the list are two supermodels, Janice Dickinson and Beverly Johnson. Both of their accounts are different in terms of the outcome, but the similarities are the accusations of drugging them and maltreatment following those encounters, which left both women feeling insecure and powerless.
In a new interview with “Entertainment Tonight” on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014 Dickinson, 59, alleges Cosby gave her a glass of red wine and a pill after she told him she was menstruating and had stomach pains.
“Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me,” Dickinson recollected after the two had dinner in Lake Tahoe, California, after the entertainer offered her a job on “The Cosby Show” in 1982. “And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was semen in between my legs.”
She adds that she considered going public in her 2002 memoir titled, No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, but was silenced by the comedian’s attorneys.
“I was afraid of being labeled a whore or a slut and trying to sleep my way to the top of a career that never took place,” she added.
Johnson, 62, on the other hand, in an essay for Vanity Fair accuses Cosby of drugging her at his New York City brownstone in the mid-1980s. He invited her to visit his home after she was tapped to audition for a small part on “The Cosby Show,” so she could practice her lines there.
Cosby allegedly insisted, repeatedly, Johnson drink a cup of espresso. “It’s nuts, I know, but it felt oddly inappropriate arguing with Bill Cosby so I took a few sips of the coffee just to appease him,” she says.
“My head became woozy, my speech became slurred, and the room began to spin nonstop.”
When Cosby cupped her waist, Johnson remembers saying to him in her induced state, “You are a motherf—-er aren’t you?” Sharp-tongued, she spat insults at Cosby. Their night reportedly ended with him becoming irate and dragging her down the flight of stairs and sent her home in a cab.
“When I sat down to write my memoir in 2013, I pondered if I should include my Cosby experience. I didn’t want to get involved in a he-said/she-said situation. Now that other women have come forward with their nightmare stories, I join them,” she adds.
