Janice Dickinson is alleging that Bill Cosby raped her in 1982. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, broadcast on television, the supermodel described the alleged sexual assault and also revealed why she is joining Cosby’s other alleged victims in speaking out.
The 59-year-old supermodel and reality TV star spoke exclusively with ET in an interview with co-anchor Kevin Hart. She described what happened back in 1982 with the now 77-year-old Bill Cosby, as allegations dating back many decades from 13 women have made headlines after Hannibal Buress’ accusatory standup comedy routine in which he flatly called the comedy legend a “rapist” and the video went viral.
Janice Dickinson described the circumstances of her meeting with Cosby at Lake Tahoe where he was performing. He had summoned her to be there so that they could discuss a job he had offered her, as well as her future career.
She explained what happened when she had dinner with Cosby and, alleged in graphic detail what happened.
As the video below reveals, she said he had given her a glass of red wine as well as a pill which she says caused her to black out. She said, “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. 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.”
She also explained that she had made the attempt to write about the experience in her autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel, published in 2002. She said that Cosby’s lawyers pressured her publisher, HarperCollins, to omit the details.
As for why she decided to speak out now, Dickinson told ET, “I’m doing this because it’s the right thing to do, and it happened to me, and this is the true story. I believe all the other women.”
She also spoke about the emotional impact of decades of silence. For her, it has been more than 30 years since the alleged incident. She said of herself, “Stuffing feelings of rape and my unresolved issued with this incident has drove me into a life of trying to hurt myself because I didn’t have counsel and I was afraid. 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.”
In speaking out and describing the alleged scenario in details, Janice Dickinson joins two other accusers. First there was Barbara Bowman, who gave an interview to The Daily Mail and claimed that Cosby had raped her when she was a 17-year-old aspiring actress. She later penned an op-ed which was published in the Washington Post. A second woman came forward, Joan Tarshis, who gave an interview to CNN and alleged she had been sexually assaulted twice by Bill Cosby in 1969. At the time, she was a writer who had worked with Cosby.
Janice Dickinson’s interview is below.
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