Female staffers at “The Late Show With David Letterman” are breathing a
collective sigh of relief they don’t have to deal with an upcoming Bill Cosby appearance. A source close to the show tells Confidenti@l that the disgraced comic had some truly bizarre backstage requests.
“He’d include as a request, before he arrived, that the young girls,
interns and assistants, all had to gather around in the green room
backstage and sit down and watch him eat curry,” our stunned source
explains. “No one would say anything, and he would sit silently eating
and make us watch and want us to watch.”
In the wake of multiple women accusing Cosby of raping them, his latest
visit to the CBS show has been canceled. But when the 77- year-old
comic appeared multiple times over the years, he’d act alarmingly gross
to the women employees.
While our source adds that everyone hated the odd preshow ritual, they
were asked by producers to do it because “that’s what he (Cosby)
wanted.”
Over the past few weeks, Cosby has been bombarded with allegations that
he sexually assaulted women and promised them showbiz success under his
tutelage. Accusers Andrea Constand and Tamara Green were named in a 2005 lawsuit, along with a dozen Jane Does. It was settled outside of court in 2006.
A year later, aspiring actress Barbara Bowman said Cosby raped her in New York City in the 1980s. Supermodel Janice Dickinson, nurse Therese Serignese, writer Joan Tarshis and actress Angela Leslie all claimed Cosby sexually assaulted them at some point. Carla Ferrigno, the wife of “Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno, said she fought off Cosby in 1967 after he roughly tried to kiss her.
The scandal has short-circuited Cosby’s attempted comeback. Netflix has
postponed an upcoming comedy special featuring the 77-year-old, NBC
axed a planned 2015 sitcom, and TV Land yanked “The Cosby Show” reruns
from the network. The Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas canceled a
Cosby comedy show for this Friday.
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