On “Good Morning America” Wednesday, supermodel Beverly Johnson decided she was moving on from her alleged victimization at the hands of Bill Cosby.
Asked what she would say to the comedian if she saw him, her response was: “I forgive you.”
Johnson, who was on the show to plug her new memoir “The Face That Changed It All,” called Cosby a “lightening rod for a much bigger conversation” about the “rape culture in America.”
Johnson is one of dozens of women to come forth and accuse Cosby of having assaulted them over the decades.
She first detailed the incident in a first-person essay for Vanity Fair last December, describing how the comedian had her over to his Manhattan brownstone twice to read for a part on “The Cosby Show.” The second time he drugged a cappuccino he made for her, she says, though she was able to escape before he could do worse.
Johnson said she never came forward out of fear of what the very powerful Cosby would do to her in return.
“In the end, just like the other women, I had too much to lose to go after Bill Cosby,” she wrote. “I had a career that would no doubt take a huge hit if I went public with my story.”
The model talked about the incident more as part of New York magazine’s article about the comedian’s many alleged victims in July.
“The part of it I wasn’t prepared for was the onslaught of women that have been assaulted and them telling me their story because I told mine,” she told the magazine.
