>>>Where are the Cosby defenders on FR now? Defend this.<<<
I am not a Cosby “defender”, as I have no idea if the charges are true or not. The number of them and the fact that he did settle one case out of court seem damning, while the age of the accusations and the fact that not a single police report was ever filed make me doubt them. I honestly have no idea what to think.
That said, there are a few things I found a bit strange in Johnson’s story:
a) It seems odd that a mother would not have primary custody of her daughter during a divorce proceeding. Even unfit mothers usually get extremely favorable treatment over upstanding men. It makes me wonder why.
b) After appearing in a TV movie in 1980, she did not have a single acting appearance in TV or movies until 1990. Makes me wonder how she’d even be on Cosby’s radar during the mid 1980’s. The fact that she didn’t land another role until 1990 suggests she wasn’t really actively pursuing at acting career during that decade.
c) The 2 visits to his home, one with her daughter and attending a taping of the show, seem like an awful lot to go through to fill a one time role for a pregnant woman sitting in a doctor’s office. I’d think a casting assistant would call in a handful of unknown actresses for quick auditions and then pick one.
Of course, that could have been part of Cosby’s plan to drug and rape but I would think she would have found it odd at the time and questioned why he was going to so much trouble to fill the role the was barely above an extra.
d) I’ve never been drugged (as far as I know) but her immediately realizing the cappuccino was drugged seems questionable, as does her claiming she went “totally limp” yet was able to make it to a cab, but had no recollection of how she got home and that the drug didn’t fully wear off for days.
e) The fact that he would give a woman he tried to rape, his private phone number that his wife was in the habit of answering seems odd as well, as does the fact that she has stayed with a serial rapist for the past 50 years, rather than divorcing him and getting a lucrative settlement.
Again, it could all be true, but she offers no corroborating evidence for her claim, and it allegedly happened over 30 years ago.
f) He felt terrible about being married and all, and still hanging out at the Playboy Mansion. But his devotion to the music, and his love of helping the young women work on their Girl Scout merit badges, overcame all his doubts.
The wife knows about some of this stuff because he’s admitted to cheating on her and possibly fathering one of these women’s children.
It’s a money thing. She’s not going to cause a scandal that would jeopardize her or her children’s financial future. He’s making millions of dollars and she’s perfectly happy to stay with him as long as the money is coming in.
She has a lot in common with Hillary Clinton. Both of them are married to men named Bill C. that are monsters.