“Today” co-host Kathy Lee Gifford has defended actor Bill Cosby in recent weeks as woman after woman came forward to accuse him of sexual assault.
But on Tuesday morning, Gifford added a disclaimer of sorts to her defense of the comedian, who she and her back-up singers opened for while he toured in the 1970s.
Gifford and her co-host Hoda Kotb were discussing a statement Cosby’s wife Camille issued Monday. Camille Cosby broke her silence on the mounting sexual assault allegations against her husband by invoking the unraveling of Rolling Stone’s article on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia to accuse the media of repeating women’s claims without vetting them.
“I will admit, towards the very end of the last time I saw him he did try to kiss me,” Gifford said on “Today.” “I said, ‘Bill, no, we’re friends,’ and he said, ‘OK, goodnight,’ and I said, ‘Goodnight.’ And I went into my room, he went into his room. So I’m not saying the women’s allegations are not true, I’m just saying I never personally saw it with my own two eyes.”
Gifford added that model Beverly Johnson’s allegation that Cosby slipped something into her drink at his home in the 1980s had given her pause.
“I do know that I got a chill, because every night when we’d come off stage and Bill would be going onstage, he would have made cappuccinos for all three of us,” she said. “And I always thought it was such a kindness and so sweet. And now you see Beverly Johnson saying that he made a cappuccino or something for her, and I just don’t want it to be true.”
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I don’t think many Americans are defending Cosby anymore, other than Cosby and his wife. A gifted comedian and actor in a TV sit-com can be a real slime ball. We know this now. Let’s move on Hopefully someone will find a way to bring charges, It’s outrageous that there should be a statute of limitations on sexual molestation, but there seems to be, even if there are more than 20 women making allegations. Disappointed, yes, especially that this slime ball can be out free refusing to answer to those who make these (probably true) accusations.
As the late Jimmy Durante used to say: “Everybody wants ta git inta da act!”
CosbY literALLY raPED bY GiffORDs cLAIM that CoSBY triED to RAPE her MOUTH wiTH HIS TONgue. ANother LIBTard nobodY LOOKing for her 15 minUTES OF FAME!111!!!1one!!1!!!
Yes…
who wouldn’t want to admit to being DRUGGED and RAPED?
WHO wouldn’t be THRILLED to expose their innermost shame to a slathering…cynical and heartless public such as you?
How glamorous.
As goes Kathy Lee so goes her doorman.
The dope required to knock out Mrs. Gifford would require several large mugs not merely a loaded cappuccino…