Bill Cosby (Photo : Reuters)
Phylicia Rashad has finally broken her silence about the series of drugging and sexual assault allegations thrown at Bill Cosby. As Cosby's TV wife for 12 years, Rashad has nothing but good words about the 77-year-old comedian.
"I love him," Rashad told Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411 about Cosby, who was his TV husband on "The Cosby Show" and on its sequel "Cosby."
According to Rashad, she has never seen Cosby with the behavior alleged by the women who accuse him of drugging and rape, or sexually harassment in the years she has known him. She said, "Forget these women. What you're seeing is the destruction of a legacy."
Rashad believes the allegations are orchestrated and she does not know why or who is doing it.
"But it's the legacy," Rashad added. "It's a legacy that is so important to the culture."
When the names of former supermodels Janice Dickinson and Beverly Johnson came up, Rashad simply said, "Oh, please."
In addition, Rashad was also quick to defend Cosby's wife Camille, who she described as a "tough woman, a smart woman" who is "no pushover." She added that there is no way Cosby's wife looked the other way while the legendary comedian abused women for the last five decades.
For Rashad, there is somebody out there "determined to keep Bill Cosby off TV, and it's worked. All his contracts have been cancelled." She added that "The Cosby Show" represented America and the American family to the outside world and she wonders why it is being destroyed.
