‘He tried to Cosby me’: Chelsea Handler’s encounter with alleged rapist Bill Cosby a decade ago
COMEDIAN Chelsea Handler has opened up about her own odd encounter with Bill Cosby, saying she nearly became one of his alleged sex assault victims.
COMEDIAN Chelsea Handler has opened up about her odd encounter with Bill Cosby a decade ago, saying she believes she might’ve become one of his alleged sex assault victims.
Almost 30 women have now come forward to accuse the embattled 77-year-old comic of raping them, with some saying they were drugged. Cosby has denied all of the allegations.
In an interview with Esquire magazine, Handler revealed she was “freaked out” during an odd meeting with The Cosby Show star in an Atlantic City hotel about 10 years ago.
“He tried to Cosby me,” Handler bluntly alleges.
“I was ... doing stand-up and he was doing stand-up in the same hotel, and at like three o’clock in the afternoon someone from the hotel came down and said, ‘Mr Cosby would really like to meet you up in his suite’.
“And I said, ‘That’s really weird. I don’t want to go alone’. So the three guys I was with ... I brought them up with me to his room and thank God I did.”
Handler said she had forgotten about the encounter, which even at the time made her uneasy, until one of the men who escorted her that day brought it up again recently.
“My friend texted me the other day saying, ‘Do you remember ... we went up to Bill Cosby’s and you were so freaked out you made us come with you?’ And I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘Hello! You could’ve been one of his victims if we weren’t there’ And I went, ‘Oh my gosh’.”
The former talk show host said she believes the accusations levelled against Cosby are true. He has not been charged with any offences.
Despite several months of controversy, Cosby continues to tour North America doing stand-up performances.
Originally published as ‘He tried to Cosby me’: Chelsea Handler’s encounter with alleged rapist Bill Cosby a decade ago