Bill Cosby Rape Accusations: Janice Dickinson Fires Back At Comedian's Lawyer As Source Confirms She Isn't Lying [VIDEOS]
After Janice Dickinson came out this week and said Bill Cosby raped her, the comedian’s lawyer released a statement calling her story “a complete lie.” However, the 59-year-old former supermodel quickly returned to Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday to defend her story.
"It is my right as a woman. I have to speak up and you have to be able to go in and just be brave and do it for all the women that can't come forward,” she said. “It is not a lie.”
Cosby’s attorney, Martin Singer, also said there’s a “glaring contradiction” between Dickinson’s allegations now in comparison to past interviews where she said the actor “blew her off” because she refused to sleep with him. Dickinson, who is one of several women claiming Cosby sexually assualted her, explained why she may have said that in the past.
“I was humiliated and I was ashamed, and also back then I wasn’t sober,” she said.
In his letter to the press, Singer bashed claims that Cosby's reps prevented Dickinson from writing about the alleged rape incident in her 2002 autobiography “No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel.” He even encouraged media outlets to contact the book’s publisher. Entertainment Tonight said a source did confirm that “an attorney for the publisher had the Cosby sexual assault allegations taken out of the book.”
During the new interview, Dickinson also explained that she decided not to bring up the assault again after it was removed from her book because she didn’t have the financial means to support herself if she was presented with a lawsuit.
Yet, in 2006, Dickinson did an interview with Howard Stern where she revealed that “Bill Cosby was the only guy I couldn't write about in the book because HarperCollins was afraid of lawsuits.”
Stern asked Dickinson if she slept with Cosby, but she didn’t answer the question. Instead, Dickinson insulted Cosby’s character.
“That’s a bad guy, let me just say that. He’s not a nice guy. He preys on women who just come out of rehab,” she said.
