The day after Bill Cosby refused to answer questions on NPR about multiple sexual assault allegations that have recently become public again, another woman has come forward with an incident from her past involving the actor.
Publicist Joan Tarshis wrote an essay for Hollywood Elsewhere on Sunday, recounting two times that Cosby raped her in 1969 when she was 19 years old.
Tarshis says it took her 20 years to reveal it to anyone.
“But during those years as I grew into adulthood, I watched Cosby be praised by everyone from Presidents to Oprah to the Jello Corporation. It all made me ill, knowing first-hand there was something unbalanced about him. I had heard and/or strongly suspected I was not the only white girl he had drugged and raped but I never had any proof. No one began talking until 2004. And though I knew I should say something, I still felt ashamed. Ashamed that I didn’t earlier.”
Read the complete article at USAToday.com.
