I find this statement by Bill Cosby’s wife Camille to be exceptionally offensive, especially given the huge number (I believe over 30) of victims and the fact that his habit of drugging women for sex was apparently well-known in Hollywood for years. The Constitution/“We the People” intro is just plain bizarre.
She is a well-educated woman and I wonder what is going on in her mind. Why doesn’t she see the futility of trying to rehabilitate his image? Does she really think he is innocent? Or is she surrounded only by people who tell her what she wants to hear? She seems to have lost touch with reality.
I could see one accuser and you could say - that’s not the man I know. But all of these women? Kind of reminds me of - I can’t remember his name - the guy from Penn State who had a history of abusing boys for decades. His wife also stood by his side.
I’m trying to think if I’d stand by my husband and defend him like this. I hate to tell him, but no, I wouldn’t. I may still love him and help him through the court case, etc. but I wouldn’t go out on record like that. I don’t know what it is that causes people to defend an obviously guilty person.
I find it laughable that she wants to pursue criminal charges against the Montgomery County district attorney. For what? The jury rendering a verdict that she didn’t like?
And if you listen to the interviews with the jurors it was Cosby’s own words in his deposition admitting to giving women drugs that resulted in his conviction. The testimony of the victims was secondary according to the jurors who deliberated. So she is pointing her arrow in the wrong direction.
I have a better idea. Why don’t we consider criminal charges against her for what she may have known/abetted about what transpired in her own home. More than one woman alleged that she was around in the early parts of the evening for dinner, then when gatherings moved to the privacy of the Cosby home she would miraculously disappear leaving her husband alone with the victim. When entertaining how many wives simply disappear and leave their husbands alone with a female guest? Unless they are family or a very dear friend my guess is zero.
@HarvestMoon1 wow are you saying the DA should pursue charges against her because she is married to a sexual predator. There is no evidence she aided/abetted him in these crimes. I hope you’re spouse (if you have one) doesn’t commit a crime or I guess we’ll have to throw you in jail too.
It’s just so strange to me that she’s gone on the offensive. It would be really easy for her to say nothing, stay married to him and even then I think the media would leave her alone. Or she could divorce him and still not make any public statement and the media would leave her alone.
But to make such outrageous claims in the face of his admission in his deposition that yes, he did obtain drugs for the purpose of giving to women to have sex with them is mind-boggling.
@CU123 there was more than one victim that alleged his wife may have known. Apparently when some of these women accepted invitations from Cosby or his handlers they had a sense of comfort because his wife was joining them for dinner or whatever other activity was on the agenda. Then afterwards they would go to the Cosby home --often the invitation was to play pool-- and Camille would disappear leaving him alone with the victim.
And yes in many states you can have criminal liability if you are found to have aided or abetted in the activity. While we would have to have more evidence to tie her to the events, given that she was actually present in the house when some of these assaults took place makes my suggestion far less preposterous than her suggestion to prosecute the district attorney.
She’s old. She may truly believe he’s a victim of a miscarriage of justice. And her rage IS misplaced. But in the long run she’s irrelevant and we should just ignore this woman who’s lashing out because own life has been turned upside down too.
I think denial could be in play here but if you look at her history I think it is one of many possibilities. Camille Cosby is a savvy, sophisticated and intelligent woman – she was raised in an upper middle class household where both of her parents were educated and successful professionals. She attended private schools and eventually earned a PhD. So it’s not like she is some shrinking violet. She actually played a very prominent role in managing her H’s career once her children were grown.
The events that resulted in her husbands downfall had been going on for many, many years and were the motivating factor for her moving the family from LA to the Philadelphia suburbs. While we don’t know the depth of her knowledge we do know she knew more than the Montgomery County district attorney knew – and her knowledge goes back many, many years.
The idea that the district attorney should be criminally prosecuted because a jury found her H guilty is preposterous.
Some people find it easier to ignore the signs that are there as long as they they don’t “know” that it is true.
Years ago, I had a relative about whom there was a whispered “I think he might have …” sort of thing among family members. No one knew for sure, so everyone just sort of hoped it wasn’t true. To this day, we don’t know if it was ever true (he passed away some time ago). But I can assure you that if we had been told that it was true, no one would have stood up for our relative. Camille Cosby may have tried hard not to “know.” What I don’t get is why she would be so outspoken about what she must have, on some level, suspected to be true.
Maybe facing this reality – that she has devoted much of her life married to a man capable of all of which he’s been found guilty – has caused her to lose her mind. Her statement is delusional.
Gnocchi, what is going on in her mind is that she has been married to this man for 54 years. The media wouldn’t be interested if she were the wife of anyone who wasn’t famous, so it makes no difference what the rest of us think we would do, God forbid.
I can understand her coming out swinging. And I could understand her extreme retreat, if she did that instead.
It’s not the “what would I do in this situation” part that’s nagging at me.
I think what bothers me so much about it, @TranquilMind and @katliamom , is that it’s gaslighting, which we’ve seen so much of in the political realm over the past couple of years. I’m concerned about how the rule of law is being denigrated - the judiciary is being verbally attacked by the executive branch of the government. Having the wife of someone as high profile as Cosby do the same thing to the prosecutor is troubling because it’s destabilizing to suggest that being held responsible for such predatory behavior is really just a “witch hunt.”
I can’t. Doing so indicates that she truly believes many MANY women who did not know each other colluded in a conspiracy of truly epic proportions. Every single one of them would have to be liars.
One victim? Sure, deny to your heart’s content. But almost 60? Nonsense.
She’s unhinged. Denial on this scale is one thing, but going on the offense in this manner is really beyond the pale. I’m thinking that she loved the lifestyle, prestige, and privilege his fame provided for her (not just the money), and now it has collapsed all around her. And that makes her very, very angry.
Maybe because she is an older woman so knows how people used drugs years ago. Maybe she feels that the prosecutors were skirting legal precedence given what is going on with the Penn State hazing case. Maybe she knew and lived with what she perceived as consenual encounters. Whatever she thinks she is entitled to her thoughts and what she chooses to release. I doubt anyone is pressuring her…and I can understand why she waited until this point to voice her opinions publically.