Posted on 11/21/2014 8:13:33 AM PST by Red Badger
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A local woman is the latest of more than a dozen women to accuse comedian Bill Cosby of being a sexual predator.
Renita Chaney Hill, 47, tells KDKA reporter Ralph Iannotti she was a 15-year-old model and aspiring actress when she first met Cosby back in the 1980s.
He was in Pittsburgh looking for performers to appear in his educational television segments “Picture Pages,” which filmed in the city. Hill’s modeling agency recommended her and she got the job.
She says she was star struck.
“Promises of bright lights and fame. That’s where I thought I was headed, that’s what everyone who knew me thought I was headed,” Hill told Iannotti.
Her appearance in Cosby’s videos was the start of a four-year, on-again, off-again relationship with the actor.
“He would fly me to a number of cities,” including New York and Atlanta she remembers. “He would be busy during the day, then I’d come to his hotel room at night,” she said.
Hill says when she was alone with Cosby the scenario was always the same. Cosby would insist she have a drink even though she was underage. She says she now believes she was drugged.
“One time, I remember just before I passed out, I remember him kissing and touching me and I remember the taste of his cigar on his breath, and I didn’t like it,” Hill said. “I remember another time when I woke up in my bed the next day and he was leaving, he mentioned you should probably lose a little weight. I thought that odd, how would he know that?”
Hill says after a while she began to put two and two together.
“I always thought it was odd that after I had this drink I would end up in my bed the next morning and I wouldn’t remember anything,” Hill said.
She says she doesn’t know if she was raped because she was unconscious.
“It just felt weird to me, and I remember being in high school saying to him, ‘I’ll come see you, but I don’t want to drink because it makes me feel funny,’” Hill said. “And he would tell me that if I didn’t drink, I couldn’t come see him.”
When she was 19, Hill says she decided to have no further contact with Cosby, even though she says he was paying her college tuition and her family had accepted what appeared to them to be a father-like mentoring relationship. She says she also gave up her dream of becoming an actress.
“It was just a horrifying feeling thinking that as a part of your dream you felt like this was something you had to endure,” Hill said. “And that’s why I couldn’t do it anymore, and I just walked away.”
Hill says her family, including her husband and three daughters, were aware of her experience. She never told her story publicly, but after hearing Cosby’s attorney criticize the other women who have recently accused Cosby of sexual assault or misconduct, she decided to come forward.
She makes no apologies for waiting more than three decades to tell her story.
“No one wants to be associated with something like this,” said Hill. “But the bottom line for me is that no one has the right to violate someone else, no matter who they are. I don’t care how big they are or how the community sees them, it’s not right.”
When asked what she would say to Cosby if given the chance.
“You know, I thought about that over the years. Why would you do that to a young girl? Being Bill Cosby, you could have had anyone. You didn’t have to do that to a young girl,” Hill said.
Cosby was discredited a long time ago. Preaching to the black community about family values & personal responsibility while he cheats on his wife & pays off his love-child to keep quiet.
Just democrats being racist.
‘...because Cosby is one of the few blacks to carry a message to the black community and black culture that they need to get off their butts, get rid of the self-pity and “the-world-owes-me-a-living” attitude, take responsibility for yourself and thrive. That message had been hurt because the messenger is now being discredited.’
Not to be too conspiratorial, but is this possibly part of the reason that this is coming out?
One of the women’s allegations was from 1970.....................
“Hill says after a while she began to put two and two together. “
‘a while’ = 43 years
At this point, it is getting hard to tell if each new claimant is legit or just looking for a payday.
Yes, we all say, but in our own way, we all fail.
But generally, Cosby had been a good example of his message. But we all fail to perfectly live up to that message. I think he spoke that message because he believed in it. He might have even been preaching to himself.
It’s easy to condemn others, but when we do, we are like the Pharisees who Jesus said let the one without sin throw the first stone.
I pray that if he doesn’t know Jesus, he’ll come to Him and find the forgiveness and healing. He, like all of us, has to deal with the consequences of his actions. But the real answer for Cosby, like the rest of us, isn’t guilt and condemnation but the forgiveness and healing found only in Jesus Christ.
My wife’s sister works in the industry and she’s been telling us for years that Cosby was a nasty POS in real life, and that his public persona was just an act.
Amen Papa, Amen.
Dang, man, there’s like sixteen of these women who have come forward, all telling stories that involve the same pattern of Cosby’s behavior and mode of operation.
I didn’t want to believe it at first, but this is difficult to ignore. Feels like the Cain thing only worse.
One is the left’s idol while the other leans slightly right?
Didn’t know about that. The message is the right message and more people, especially blacks, need to bring that message to the black community and culture.
I’m sorry to hear this.
Agreed, this problem is a LOT bigger than just Cosby.
This was thirty years ago. But even a young girl looking for a mentor/father, financial support and a show business career has got to know something’s going on if she keeps finding herself in bed without knowing how she got there.
I do understand a young girl being afraid to object or tell anyone or react. But she should be able to avoid future encounters if the first one disturbed her.
But isn’t the media being racist?
That was my first thought. One who is publicly broadcasting and anti-Leftist message usually get reamed by the Left and the MSM sooner or later. I wouldn't be surprised. The problem here is, it's looking like this stuff may be true.
Hill says after a while she began to put two and two together.I bet a thousand years ago you couldn't believe a person was this dumb.
Those were my first thoughts and I agree, it’s hard to tell what’s legit and what isn’t.
Doesn’t look good though. Feels like the Cain thing only worse.
Have there been any black women who have come forward to say that Cosby whether statutory rape, or by drugging, or by force?
There’s starting to be too many accusers to ignore. Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.
And Cosby has been very silent on this...no denials.
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