Vivica A. Fox, who once worked on Bill Cosby's show, defends the besieged entertainment icon as a "nice, kind" man who never did anything inappropriate to her.
"I worked on the Cosby show and was honored to do the show, and ... the man I met was nothing like the man they are describing," Fox said on The Meredith Vieira Show, airing Thursday.
"He was nice, kind. There was no sexual overtones or anything so I defend him and I stand by him as well, too." Cosby has been accused by more than two dozen women of being a serial rapist who drugged and sexually assaulted them in decades past. He has denied the allegations, and has never been charged with a crime.
As Cosby continues his current tour and the number of accusers grows (three more came forward on Wednesday), some of his friends and former co-workers have come forward to vouch for him.
Defenders include Keshia Knight Pulliam, who played one of his kids on The Cosby Show, and Phylicia Rashad, who played his wife. Both spoke out in recent days on Cosby's behalf and both took flack for doing so.
Not from Fox, 50, who said she agreed with Pulliam. When asked how she thought Pulliam had handled herself, she said, "Like a class act. She did. It's part of it, that they would attach her name to Mr. Cosby because they have history together."
Meanwhile, Rashad was partially vindicated in her defense of Cosby, when she was quoted by an entertainment columnist as saying, "forget those women" accusers. That remark brought a callout from Gloria Allred, a lawyer for some of Cosby's accusers.
But Rashad claimed she was misquoted and the reporter, Roger Friedman of Showbiz411, issued a clarification saying that what Rashad said had been "twisted" to be a condemnation of the accusers, and that he had failed to make it clear she was talking about something else.
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