Janice Dickinson is putting a well-known face to the dozens of allegations from women who claim Bill Cosby has sexually assaulted them. After first coming forward on Entertainment Tonight in mid-November, the noted “first supermodel”, 59, spoke out for a second time in an emotional interview with CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday, Dec. 1.
Dickinson recalled the incident
from 1982 when she was fresh out of rehab. Her first warning sign was
when Cosby, now 77, offered her a glass of red wine at dinner. She
turned that down, but when she complained about menstrual cramps, the
beloved sitcom actor then offered her a pill, which she accepted.
The former America’s Next Top Model judge claims she trusted Cosby at the time “because of his demeanor and the promise of a career.”
A while later, she started to
black out, and he allegedly took her back to a room where she had a
Polaroid camera on her, and snapped some photos (which were displayed
during her interview) of the I Spy actor in a patchwork robe
“I remember being humiliated,
disgusted, I had revulsion towards Cosby,” she said. “I stuffed it, I
compartmentalized it because I was embarrassed.”
Though there’s no legal action
she or any of the other victim can take against the actor so many years
later, Dickinson did have some thoughts on what she wanted from her
alleged attacker.
“I would like Cosby to come out
and at least acknowledge that he is a pig, he is a monster, and he raped
me,” she said before the interview ended.
Before the cameras turned off, Dickinson broke down crying.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know how to
process these emotions,” she said. “I’m going to meditate. I’m going to
go to church. This is affecting me in my house, this is affecting me
here, and it’s really affecting these women