Beverly Johnson’s Former Manager Claims Johnson And Janice Dickinson Lied About Cosby Accusations

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler came out swinging against Bill Cosby at the Golden Globes on Sunday, but Cosby has at least two people on his side. Don Gibble, a talent manager, has joined Phylicia Rashad on Team Cosby. In an interview with the Daily Caller, he explains his thoughts on former model Beverly Johnson’s story. Johnson, as you may recall, says Cosby drugged her in his house.

But Gibble said that Johnson told him her Cosby story many times, and that it only involved one personal meeting: at a pleasant, non-eventful brunch with Cosby and his wife Camille.

“She said she had brunch with him and his wife, and it was a great experience. And then on ‘The View’ it flip-flopped,” Gibble said, referring to Johnson’s recent appearance on the daytime television program.

“It was odd to me that she changed her story. She said [she was] drugged and raped. I just remember that was not the conversation we had. And we had it repeatedly.”

“It was brunch. It was just one time. It was a typical nice pleasant experience,” Gibble said, echoing Johnson’s oft-repeated accounts. ”It can be easily proven that Camille Cosby was at that brunch, so it was kind of dumb for her to lie.”

Johnson “had brunch with him once and then they would run into each other at NAACP awards and premieres,” Gibble said.

He then went on to accuse Janice Dickinson of lying as well.

But according to Gibble, Dickinson said at Hollywood parties “many times” that Cosby made a pass at her in a hotel, which she rejected. Cosby then went to bed without assaulting her, according to Dickinson’s original version of events.

Records demonstrate that Dickinson changed her story.

For the sake of information, this excerpt from a study by Lynn Hecht Schafran, director of Legal Momentum’s National Judicial Education Program, discusses post-rape denial and suppression:

The phenomenon of denial coupled with a severe state of shock can also cause victims to make inconsistent statements about crucial facts surrounding the assault. For example, the victim may acknowledge that she knew the rapist yet not be able to tell the police his name.

Dickinson previously stated that she had no intentions of suing Cosby, as she just wants him to admit his alleged actions.

Source: The Daily Caller

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