NEW YORK, Sept. 10 (UPI) — Supermodel Beverly Johnson opened up to Good Morning America Wednesday about how she’s been able to forgive Bill Cosby after he allegedly drugged her in 1986.
“I forgive you,” Johnson said during the morning show when asked what she would say to the controversial comedian if they met again face-to-face.
Last year, Johnson wrote of her close-call experience with Cosby in Vanity Fair, recalling the realization she had been allegedly drugged after drinking a cappuccino offered by the actor. The Vogue cover model said she and Cosby had been meeting regularly to discuss a potential role on The Cosby Show.
“For a long time I thought it was something that only happened to me, and that I was somehow responsible. So I kept my secret to myself, believing this truth needed to remain in the darkness,” Johnson wrote at the time in the 2014 article “Now that other women have come forward with their nightmare stories, I can join them.”
While celebrating the release of memoir, The Face That Changed It All, in which she recounts the alleged Cosby incident, Johnson spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about why she has been able to forgive the troubled TV icon.
“I’m never angry. I don’t carry anger and bitterness,” the model said. “It’s a part of who I am and how I was taught and so forgiving is a part of that process.”
When asked what it would take for Cosby to admit the sexual assault allegations, Johnson responded, “I don’t know and — not that I don’t care — I leave that to his higher power and our higher power [and law enforcement]…. I have no say.”
Cosby has now been accused by roughly 50 women who claim he allegedly drugged and/or sexually assaulted them. In 2005, Cosby admitted in a deposition that he did indeed administer Quaaludes to women he intended to have sex with but said the relations were consensual.
Cosby will report for another deposition in early October.
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