“I Was Sexually Assaulted By Bill Cosby”- Janice Dickinson Steps Forward
With rape allegations against Bill
Cosby mounting, supermodel Janice Dickinson tells ET in a new interview that
the comedian sexually assaulted her in 1982.
Dickinson, now 59, recalls first
meeting Cosby, now 77, when her agent set up a meeting with him to hire her for
a role on The Cosby Show. After they had dinner, she says their next
conversation was when he called her out of the blue while she was in rehab for
drugs and alcohol.
Following her stay in rehab, Dickinson says Cosby reached
out to her during a trip to Bali and had her travel to Lake Tahoe, because he
was performing there and wanted to offer her the job they had discussed as well
as help her with a singing career.
Dickinson says they had dinner in
Lake Tahoe, and claims that he gave her a glass of red wine and a pill, which
she asked for because she was menstruating and had stomach pains.
And that’s when she tells ET that
things took a disturbing turn.
“The next morning I woke up, and I
wasn’t wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been
sexually assaulted by this man,” she tells ET. “… 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. 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.”
Dickinson also says she tried to
write about the assault in her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty:
The
Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, but claims that when she
submitted a draft with her full story to HarperCollins, Cosby and his lawyers
pressured her and the publisher to remove the details.
“I’m doing this because it’s the
right thing to do, and it happened to me, and this is the true story,” she says
about coming out with her story now. “I believe all the other women.”
Dickinson says that keeping the
alleged sexual assault a secret for 32 years drove her to a life of hurting
herself.
“Stuffing feelings of rape and my
unresolved issued with this incident has drove me into a life of trying to hurt
myself because I didn’t have counsel and I was afraid,” she says. “I was afraid
of the consequences. 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.”
But now Dickinson, who says she
never confronted Cosby after the alleged incident, doesn’t mince words when it
comes to what she would say to him now.
“How dare you,” she says. “Go f*ck
yourself. How dare you take advantage of me. And I hope you rot.”
Via ETonline.
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