Model Janice Dickinson Says Bill Cosby Drugged, Raped Her When She Tried to Negotiate a Role on 'The Cosby Show'
Iconic supermodel and TV personality Janice Dickinson is the latest alleged rape victim to speak out against Bill Cosby.
During a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dickinson claimed Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982. She recalled that at the time of the alleged sexual assault, Cosby had flown her out to Lake Tahoe, where he was performing, to discuss her music career as well as negotiate a possible role for her on "The Cosby Show."
Dickinson then recalled Cosby offering her a glass of wine and a pill. Soon after consuming the pill, Dickinson blacked out and only remembers waking up naked on Cosby's bed.
"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 explained. "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."
Since her alleged assault, Dickinson has attempted to speak out against Cosby. ET reports that in 2002, Dickinson addressed the assault in her autobiography, "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel."
However, Cosby and his lawyers got hold of Dickinson's first draft and "pressured her and the publisher to remove the details," says ET.
The amount of pressure put on Dickinson following the assault prompted her to turn to various forms of self destruction and keep quiet about Cosby because of the fear she harbored of being judged by her peers.
"Stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issues with this incident has drove me into a life of trying to hurt myself because I didn't have counsel and I was afraid," Dickson said. "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."
Check out more from Dickinson's candid ET interview below.
Dickinson's shocking allegation against Cosby follows another recent confession by artist Barbara Bowen, who claims Cosby raped her when she was 17-years-old. Bowen recalls the disturbing story in a Washington Post op-ed piece. Similar to Dickinson's story, Bowen reveals that Cosby allegedly offered her a glass of wine after which she immediately blacked out and later woke up to Cosby "looming" over her in her panties and his t-shirt.
Cosby has yet to formally respond to the sexual allegations.
NPR reports that Cosby responded with silence when asked to address the sexual assault allegations during a recent NPR interview.
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