Former supermodel Janice Dickinson has come forward with claims of sexual assault by Bill Cosby.
In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dickinson shared her story which mirrored many of the other claims made by Joan Tarshis, Barbra Bowman, and many others. Dickinson says the incident happened in 1982 during one of her stints in rehab. After she was flown in by the comedian to see one of his shows, they ended up in his hotel room where she was given wine and a pill for her cramps. It was then that she claims the comedian actually drugged took advantage of her.
“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.”
The former “America’s Next Top Model” judge says she tried to tell her side of the story in her 2002 autobiography but publishers and lawyers convinced her to omit the story from the book. She says hiding her alleged rape caused her to inflict self pain. She also says with Cosby at the height of his career at the time, people would have never believed her.
“Stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issues with this incident has drove me into a life of trying to hurt myself because I didn’t have counsel and I was afraid,” she says. “I was afraid of the consequences. I was afraid of being labeled a whore or a slut and trying to sleep my way to the top of a career that never took place.”
Dickinson says she can relate to the many other women who have claimed they were raped by the comedian. She also says if she could talk to the comedian, she would let him have it.
“I want to talk about this now and I want to really support the other women who have gone through this,” she told ET. “Now with people coming out…, it’s being handled differently….How dare you,” she says. “Go f*ck yourself. How dare you take advantage of me. And I hope you rot.”
Cosby has stayed mum on all claims including during a recent interview with NPR.While Dickinson was detailing her story to ET, former publicist Joan Tarshis faced CNN’s Don Lemon and talked about how the comedian forced her to give him oral sex in which the CNN host suggested why she didn’t “bite” him during the act.
Read the full exchange below via Huffington Post:
Lemon: Can I ask you this, because — and please, I don’t mean to be crude, ok?
Tarshis: Yeah.
Lemon: Because I know some of you — and you said this last night, that he — you lied to him and said “I have an infection, and if you rape me, or if you do — if you have intercourse with me, then you will probably get it and give it to your wife.”
Tarshis: Right.
Lemon: And you said he made you perform oral sex.
Tarshis: Right.
Lemon: You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn’t want to do it.
Tarshis: Oh. Um, I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn’t even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have.
Lemon: Right. Meaning the using of the teeth, right?
Tarshis: Yes, that’s what I’m thinking you’re —
Lemon: As a weapon.
Tarshis: Yeah, I didn’t even think of it.
Lemon: Biting.
Tarshis: Ouch.
Lemon: Yes. I had to ask. I mean, it is, yeah.
Tarshis: Yes. No, it didn’t cross my mind.
Lemon does apologize for his question but critics and viewers slammed the host for seemingly placing blame on Tarshis for not using her teeth as a weapon in the act.
CNN nor Lemon have responded to the criticism.
SOURCE: Entertainment Tonight | VIDEO CREDIT: News Inc.
