no idea how she got home. shawndra fox says the same thing. i don t know how i got home. i m at the playboy mansion after a jazz set. i come back from the bathroom. the next thing i know i wake up in a bed. i don t know how i got home. charlotte, if so many people saw things or were handling you, taking you around, why would none of them have said anything for the past 40 years? money trumps everything. people have jobs. they have families. they see it. they know it, and they don t say anything. a former model says she experienced that silence firsthand when she scored a small part on the cosby show in 1989. eden says kozs by s assistant plucked her out of rehearsal to take her to cosby s dressing room. the star didn t show up, but eden says she told production staff she didn t like being singled out. they all told me not to worry about it, that this happens all the time.
say this isn t okay. this is about women taking power in their hands. why this torrent of accusations now? we will start with barbara bowman, one of the first to go public. i said i won t stop talking and i will keep talking until somebody listens. bash bra s story began in denver, colorado. she was a theater arts major in college, dreaming the hollywood dream. one day she says her agent surprised her. she said i have somebody i want you to meet who i think would help you move to the next level of your career. that somebody was one of america s biggest stars. he made his name on i spy in the 60s, created fat albert, became the face of jell-o. by the time barbara got that call he was playing cliff huxtable on the cosby show, the hottest show on tv. he was beloved and trusted, bill
was wrong with me. i was just holding my head because i didn t know what was happening. that was what was so terrifying. in this room of all of you that say you were drugged or took a drug, do you know what you took? no. not any idea. these women say if cosby wasn t offering drinks or dinner, he d offer something else, career advice. how many of you thought bill cosby was going to be your mentor? that s a lot of hands. can i go to you, lily? you thought bill cosby was mentoring you initially. oh, yeah. i didn t think that. i knew that. lily bernard appeared on the cosby show. lily says cosby earned her trust. one night in 1990, she says, he offered her a drink. he said drink it, bernard, drink it. very quickly the room started spinning. lily says she became incapacitated and cosby raped her.
i said, well, this does not happen all the time with me, and i m not comfort with it. but eden says it happened two more times and the last time cosby did show up. she says he locked the dressing room door behind him and asked her to do an acting exercise with him. he pulled me into his body and wrapped his arms tightly and nuzzled himself into my neck and said see, this is making love. this is all we were going to do is making love. who did you tell about that experience? i went back to the person i talked to earlier in the week on the set. i am incensed that there is nobody coming forward. i can assure you that people knew. lily bernard agrees. she says in full view of the crew on the cosby show sound stage, she confronted bill cosby, accusing her of drugging and raping her. he was yelling. he was rageful.
with the cosby show. super model beverly johnson said she got a call from her agent in the mid 1980s. cosby wanted her to audition for a role on the show. beverly was overjoyed. who was he at that time? he was the biggest entertainer in the world. and not just an entertainer, over the years, bill cosby became a philanthropist, a role model. in 2002, he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. the nation s highest civilian honor. cosby also began speaking out to the african-american community criticizing lifestyle choices. the day is now for you to realize how important parenting is, how important love is, how how important staying with your child is. talk of the cosby legend elicits raw anger here.