The latest woman to share her experience with 77year old ace comedian, Bill Cosby is Kathie Lee Gifford.
Gifford shared her private experience with the comedian on TodayShow.
The TodayShow co-anchor claimed had tried to kiss her before.
“I will admit, towards the very last times I saw him, he did try to kiss me. I said, ‘Bill, no, we’re friends,’ and he said, ‘OK, goodnight,’ and I said, ‘Goodnight.’ And I went to my room, and he went into his room.”
“A lot of married men come onto single women… but once I said, ‘No, absolutely not,’ he respected it,” she later added.
She made this statement while discussing Cosby’s wife’s Camille’s recent statement calling her husband “a kind man, a generous man, a funny man, and a wonderful husband, father and friend,” despite the numerous sexual assault allegations against him.
Gifford explained her personal history with Cosby, serving as the opening act for the comedian for several years and traveling on the road with him. She said that he was capable of “great kindness,” and recalled how he would give her and her two backup dancers money to gamble.
Though she is now looking back at her experience in a different light, specifically after reading supermodel Beverly Johnson’s recent Vanity Fair story alleging the comedian drugged her.
Gifford remembered how Cosby would make cappuccino for her when Johnson claimed that Cosby drugged her with a cappuccino.
“I do know that I got a chill [reading Johnson's story], because every night when we’d come off stage and Bill would be going on-stage, he would have made cappuccinos for all three of us,” she said. “And I always thought it was such a kindness and it was so sweet, and now you see Beverly Johnson saying that he made her a cappuccino, and I just don’t want it to be true, but I’m not saying that the women are liars.”
She stressed, “I’m just saying I never personally saw it with my own two eyes.”
Camille Cosby broke her silence on Monday on the allegations against her husband of 50 years, calling him a victim.
“There appears to be no vetting of my husband’s accusers before stories are published or aired,” she said. “An accusation is published, and immediately goes viral … None of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a victim. But the question should be asked — who is the victim?”
Allegations against the comedian date back to the 1960s, and several alleged victims — including model Janice Dickinson have told their stories
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