Posted on 11/18/2014 6:38:53 PM PST by SkyPilot
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.
VIDEO: Alleged Bill Cosby Rape Victim Joan Tarshis Speaks to ET
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at etonline.com ...
It’s a big mistake to judge everything through political or racial prisms.
Evil exists. People grow up twisted, and hurt other people.
White or black, right or left.
Words to live by.
Pulled from 73, just above.
As shocking as the findings are, even more shocking is the fact that Savile got away with it for so long. That realization has “shaken our country to the core,” U.K. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Thursday. For decades, while Savile hosted show after show and glad-handed, the abuse went on. Numerous columns have asked: How? How did no one know? Why wasn’t he stopped?
The answer, according to the National Health Service, psychologists, and academics, lies in the pervasive and intimidating power of celebrity. He was so well-known that even when his behavior struck some as strange or lewd, he was allowed to carry on because he was Jimmy Savile and was raising millions. “I don’t know if he were a law unto himself, but because of his celebrity status, he sort of basically had the run of the place,” one hospital worker told investigators.
One woman recalled Savile sexually assaulting her when she was 16. Even decades later, she told investigators, she remembered it vividly. After he was done, he turned an imperial eye to her. “You won’t talk about this,” he told her. “Nobody will believe you. I’m Jimmy Savile. I can get you.” The girl said she told her mother, but she didn’t believe her. The girl never talked about it again.
He says Republicans liked it better when his people were slaves, so probably not.
God has the trump card against evil.
We might not end up with a celebrity showy life when we play it, but we do end up satisfied and heaven-bound.
God has that power. Men’s miseries are caused by looking elsewhere to try to get it.
It illustrates not just wickedness, but that celebrity is the American equivalent of untouchable royalty.
Well how DO you think people are going to act, if they have been convinced to idolize you? You can get away with murder.
I knew this Cosby was no good right away. He already settled with ten or so rape victims in 2004 or so. Paid them to go way. Some Freepers are oblivious to this earlier settlement.
Sure some of these women are hopping on the lawsuit $$ gravy train but they are the minority (my opinion)
Most of them are, but not all of them.
Kids don’t get cancer or die in accidents because of their own fault, and that still causes a lot of misery to many folks.
If a woman had accused you of this behavior and you were guilty, you would have immediately denied it and protested angrily. That’s exactly how liars operate.
Silence in no way suggests guilt.
I guess I don’t think they are related. I could be wrong, but I think this type of dynamic happens a lot...years later, one, then another.
As for keeping it suppressed, I would think it is the usual celebrity thing, not a liberal machine being set loose on someone who steps out of line.
But as we have seen what the liberal machine did to people who went against the Clintons, or even further back, McCarthy...well, nothing is impossible.
Regardless, the Cos is toast.
“You better put some ice on that [lip I bit while raping you.]
Bubba
I think the Savile case explained at #73 may be a close fit to Cosby.
Not as prolific, more selective (models etc), but a close fit.
Here’s where it matters if the biblical account of the mutual fall of mankind (”we sinned in Adam”) is true or not.
If it’s true, this world really is a second chance to everybody in it, and nobody has room to complain about ailments that still fall short of being in a genuine, deserved hell.
This is a place where the bible is tantalizingly scanty on details. If I’d written the book I would have spelled it out better, but nobody asked me if I wanted to be God so that isn’t an option. Whatever the details of how this played out, God created us all upright then we all managed to enter into birth as sinners.
Well said. It is easy to fall into it, but sometimes, evil is just evil.
I have always felt that recognition is a key cleavage point between conservatism and liberalism.
Liberals just don’t generally believe real evil exists (until it bites them in the buttocks) and that all humans are basically good, but are corrupted by (INSERT SOME FACTOR HERE).
Conservatives believe that evil exists, and it has to be taken into account in our everyday considerations and dealt with for what it is.
Possibly, but I can’t comment or relate to that, because I am not a liar.
I can only tell you what I would do as an honest man who particapted in no such activity, and never would.
As an honest man, my response to such allegations would not take into consideration what a liar would do at all. It’s really up tp the liar as to what he does or does not do.
I do not see Cosby behaving as I would.
His silence is highly suspect.
He seemed to be so demon ridden, it’s impossible to get into his head. If, hypothetically, he didn’t commit any of these shenanigans, he might still be so uptight with rage that he doesn’t know what to do.
I am satisfied to let God bring out the details without overly speculating.
I can agree with that.
I’d be mad too, no doubt, and I am not necessarily good with words when I’m mad.
Still though, I do believe that, were it me, I would say something in my defense. I wouldn’t let accusations such as these go unaddressed.
It is kinda of the same way I fell if I was accussed of murder. If I was innocent, I would get on that stand and say it, even if my attorney advised me not to, and even if I had to face the prosecutor as a result of my saying I’m innocent.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.