and it was my understanding, i was going to do a monologue and i was going to be receiving acting coaching from bill cosby whom we were supposed to refer to as mr. c. you got to reno and what happened? i was picked up at the airport. i was driven, which was, that s what i was expecting. we kept driving out of the city. and i knew that the hotel where i was supposedly getting this coaching and supposedly staying was in the city of reno. and i asked the driver and he said, oh, well, mr. cosby, there s been a change of plans. he was offered a ranch house by a friend of his. this gives him privacy. again, no one thought at the time, this was mr. jello pudding pop. no one thought anything funky about this. he had called our home. spoken with myself, my parents. we had no idea there was anything to be the least bit
cosby s stature and intelligence and life experience. but based on my own experience as a victim and from talking to hundreds of other victim of abuse of all races and ages and education levels, i feel like her situation has all the hallmarks of emotional abuse. in particular, a form of abuse that is known as gas lighting. and gas lighting is a term that was coined based on an alfred hitch hock psychological killer where a charismatic ed you cannive husband. in order to cover up his own very serious problems, blames his beautiful, intelligent wife and in fact, cunningly convinces her that it is all in her head. and then she becomes his staunchest defender. and obviously, there are a lot of parallels to the cosby situation. they were married when she was only 19. necessary so many ways, what she says, the man, the wonderful man that we all knew. but i suspect that there could