Ex-model Janice Dickinson sobs as she tells of Bill Cosby 'rape ordeal'

 
“Drugged”: Janice Dickinson
John Dunne @jhdunne2 December 2014

A former supermodel broke down on television as she gave explicit details of her alleged rape ordeal at the hands of comedian Bill Cosby.

Janice Dickinson, 59, burst into tears during a CNN interview broadcast last night in which she claimed she was drugged and raped in a Lake Tahoe hotel room more than 30 years ago.

She accused Cosby, 77, of using the offer of career advancement to lure her to the hotel room where he drugged her and raped her while she was unconscious. In the interview she said she fled after waking up in extreme pain with Cosby’s semen on her clothes.

Dickinson, who first made her rape allegation last month, said she had been given wine and pills before blacking out at a meeting about a part on The Cosby Show she had been promised.

She claimed Cosby’s musical director, Stu Gardner, gave her red wine despite knowing she had just been in rehab for alcoholism, and then left.

Dickinson told CNN: “I was alone with him, I had menstrual cramp — he said ‘I have something for that’ and he gave me a pill.

“I remember waking up and that he — there was a lot of pain downstairs. There was semen all over me and my pyjama bottoms were off. I just packed up and I got the hell out of there.”

Cosby has resigned as a trustee of Temple University Philadelphia after more than a dozen women accused him of drugging and molesting them.

He denies the allegations, insisting that Dickinson’s rape claim is “a lie”.

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