Cosby Show co-star Phylicia Rashad tweets her support for colleague Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby’s Cosby Show co-star Phylicia Rashad tweets her support: FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!
- She tweeted support for her co star shortly after his sexual assault conviction was overturned Wednesday
- Singer Jennifer Hudson was among the more than 2,000 people who liked the tweet by Wednesday afternoon
- The two worked together on all eight seasons of the sitcom from 1984 to 1992
- Rashad has expressed support for her former co-star in the past despite the allegations against him
- She was recently named dean of the Howard University College of Fine Arts
- Reactions from the entertainment world were varied, with many expressing outrage, and some support
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Cosby Show co-star Phylicia Rashad tweeted her support for her longtime colleague Bill Cosby shortly after his sexual assault conviction was overturned Wednesday.
‘FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!’ she wrote in the tweet posted at 1.30pm.
Rashad played Claire Huxtable, the wife of Cosby’s character Cliff Huxtable, on all eight seasons, from 1984 to 1992, of the Emmy Award-winning sitcom.
Rashad, who was recently named dean of the Howard University College of Fine Arts, has supported her former co-star in the past despite the allegations against him.
Phylicia Rashad tweeted her support for her longtime Cosby Show colleague Bill Cosby shortly after his sexual assault conviction was overturned Wednesday
Cosby, shortly after his release from the SCI Phoenix prison today
Cosby, 83, was released from the SCI Phoenix prison in Skippack Township today after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction in a surprise decision.
He has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence after being found guilty of drugging and violating Temple University sports administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
He was arrested in 2015, and was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era.
Rashad, 72, was quick to defend her former colleague after the allegations first surfaced, and has gone so far as to suggest the accusers against Cosby had ulterior motives.
Rashad played Claire Huxtable, the wife of Cosby’s character Cliff Huxtable, on all eight seasons of the Emmy Award-winning sitcom
Rashad has defended her former co-star in the past
In a 2015 interview with ABC she went so far as to suggest the accusers against Cosby had ulterior motives
‘What you’re seeing is the destruction of a legacy. And I think it’s orchestrated. I don’t know why or who’s doing it, but it’s the legacy. And it’s a legacy that is so important to the culture,’ she famously said in a 2015 interview with ABC. ‘This show represented America to the outside world. This was the American family. And now you’re seeing it being destroyed. Why?’
Not everyone in the entertainment world celebrated today’s surprise development.
‘I am furious to hear this news,’ General Hospital star Amber Tamblyn wrote on Twitter. ‘I personally know women who this man drugged and raped while unconscious. Shame on the court and this decision.’
‘To every woman who was sexual assaulted by #BillCosby my heart hurts for you today and I am full fury,’ Will & Grace star Debra Messing tweeted. ‘It’s horrifying.’
Reactions to the news of Cosby’s release was varied, with many expressing outrage, and some support
‘I know many young women and men who are so Afraid to press charges against their rapist and Re traumatize themselves I am heartbroken today to hear of the news of Cosby´s release .this is sickening. My heart is with my sister survivors. We have work to do,’ actress Rosanna Arquette tweeted.
‘WHEN will things get better for women and girls regarding sexual assault, sexism, misogyny and ageism? What will it take? So discourage,’ posted comedian Kathy Griffin.
Others, however, were supportive.
Singer Jennifer Hudson was among the more than 1,000 people who liked the tweet shortly after it was published.
Additionally, comedian Lil Duval tweeted: ‘Bill Cosby about to be free! City boy win summer 2021!’
He also defended Rashad, tweeting, ‘y’ass mad at the great Phylicia Rashad too huh?’
‘Told you so on #BillCosby,’ tweeted Geraldo Rivera. ‘He was convicted by a court so tainted by public opinion and social pressure that it allowed obviously prejudicial evidence and improper witnesses. He may be a bad guy, but in this case he was railroaded by the mob.’
