My adult recollections do not go back as far as 1965 but my parents’ recollections do. i have gathered a very general and hazy impression that sexual matters were not often talked about face to face. you raise a good point but there are still plausible explanations such as that she was ashamed and worried that her boyfriend would get dragged into a situation resulting in the end of her career. they were not married at the time so this would potentially leave her without a job and without a home as well if her boyfriend subsequently decided to end the relationship for any reason. she could have covered it up by saying that she stayed over at a girl friend’s place for a while and got sick.
here is the video of the interview. while you have a right to believe what you want about the woman, you might as well check the demeanor in which she delivers the contemporaneous answers. you can, incidentally, hear her husband occasionally making a supportive comment from behind the camera.
the woman seems totally calm and collected, and not on an agenda other than to tell the truth. if this is some kind of conspiracy to bring down cosby, then why would this woman tell about not telling her future husband until later? —i suspect it is because to some degree it fits in with the time period. remember my warning about presentism. if you contend she is not telling the truth, are you saying that she permitted cosby to seduce her? because she is giving specific details about cosby’s residence. oh, and she does not even bother to mesh her story with reports that cosby bought his wife a home back east and that cosby’s LA place was in fact a bachelor pad without the regular presence of his wife there. you would expect that the woman would indicate awareness of this if she had an agenda. i suppose one could argue that the woman deliberately left a couple of loose ends but then you are left with all the other potentially checkable information, and the lack of personal gain as an agenda, plus that the woman can reasonably be expected to have her name and reputation dragged into the mud by cosby’s legal/publicity pitbull team. at this point, perhaps, she could still be an attention whore, but she does not seem to have that need either. she seems like an upper middle class retired solid citizen type.
Yeah, at the point that this woman spoke out Cosby had shown such willingness to attack the credibility of the women who accused him so of course she would be scared of that. Not.
I’d have to read that article again, which is a difficult thing given my computer mess, but seems like she said she woke up around 5 and Cosby was there but then she got really sick. Then she recovered enough to drive herself home, drove herself home, but then she wasn’t sick enough to miss work, and she never said boo to her live-in about why she was sick, why she was dead on her feet, why there were pantyhose in shreds, and why she hadn’t come home that night.
She says she isn’t telling her story for the sake of money, since she’s already rich. But how many of her friends are Hollywood leftists? Money isn’t the only motivation. It sure didn’t seem to be the motivation of the “comedian” who broke off into his rant about Cosby to start this subject up again... His concern was to make sure that people think of Cosby as a hypocrite if he says that Blacks should pull up their pants...