Someone else has stepped for to make claims the Bill Cosby allegations are true— and it's a former male co-star.
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Joseph C. Phillips, who played Cosby's son-in-law Martin Kendall on "The Cosby Show," took to his blog to share his feelings about the comedian in a post titled, "Of Course Bill Cosby Is Guilty."
Line after line, Phillips describes how much he looks up to the actor
and idolized him, even before they worked together on the show.
"He was my boyhood idol. His influence on my life has been profound. I
owe much of who I am to Bill Cosby, so the idea of love seems to fall
short of exactly how I feel," he wrote. "The Cos was a ladies man, but
also good father and husband - devoted to his wife and children. Bill
was educated; he collected art and was fluent in jazz. After my father,
Bill Cosby was the man I aspired to be. Few get an opportunity to meet
their idol, much less work with them. I was blessed in that regard, and
even more blessed that I found my idol as clever, kind and brilliant as I
had imagined."
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He went on to explain that the moment he joined the cast of the show he
realized that everyone knew that the comedian was messing around with
women other than his wife.
"Bill sleeping around was a fact that, like, the air, seemed to just
be," he explained. "You didn't have to see it or hear it to know that it
existed. ... There was also the seeming unending parade of pretty young
women that streamed through the studio."
Phillips recalls a moment that "shook" him after running to a female
friend during the height of the Cosby allegations and deciding to ask
her if anything weird ever happened. She too had spent time around the
comedian and saw him as a mentor.
"Back in the day," I started. "I remember that you knew Bill - that he
was like your mentor or something. Did he ever…" Before I finished the
sentence, she began to cry," he wrote. "We spent the next two hours
sitting on a bench talking. Through tears, she told me her story. She
cursed him for violating both her trust and her body. She cursed herself
for not being smarter, and for degrading herself in pursuit of success.
I listened patiently. As she began to run out of steam, she turned to
me. "Do you believe me?"
Phillip goes on to explain that in that moment the way he thought of the legendary actor changed forever.
At the end of the post he gives one last plea to Cosby.
"The good Bill has done over the years is real and enduring," he
writes. "I am not prepared to simply dismiss his brilliance, his wisdom,
or his legacy. ... It is with all of the love I still have for him and
the reverence of one who has idolized him for a lifetime that I offer
this plea. Bill, you have a family who loves you, a wife who is devoted
to you; you have more money than you can spend. Please, go live a quiet
country life. Allow those of us who truly love you to preserve just a
bit of our enchantment."
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