Beverly Johnson: Bill Cosby drugged me in 1980s
One-time supermodel/actress Beverly Johnson emerged as Bill Cosby's most prominent accuser with a tale of getting drugged by the megastar in his New York brownstone.
Johnson wrote a detailed first-person story for Vanity Fair where she recounted how TV's Dr. Huxtable targeted her with a heavily dosed cup of cappuccino.
'I knew by the second sip of the drink that I'd been drugged - and drugged good,' she wrote in the piece posted Thursday on the magazine's website.
'My head became woozy, my speech became slurred and the room began to spin nonstop.'
The international modeling star said Cosby wrapped his hands around her waist as her body went completely limp. Before the Emmy-winning comedian could go any further, she began screaming at him.
'You are a motherf----- aren't you?' she shouted repeatedly until a disgusted Cosby roughly threw her out of his home.
'I recall his seething anger at my tirade and then him grabbing me by my left arm hard and yanking all 110 pounds of me down a bunch of stairs as my high heels clicked and clacked on every step,' she recalled.
'I feared my neck was going to break with the force he was using to pull me down those stairs.'
Cosby then flagged down a cab and shoved her inside after the mid-1980s encounter.
Johnson's story contained elements of the horrific tales told by other women claiming they were Cosby victims: The comedian reportedly asked her to join him in an acting exercise where she would pretend to be drunk.
The model went along because Cosby, as other women also claimed, had offered to help with her career - and possibly with a part on his No. 1-ranked 'The Cosby Show.'
Johnson - the first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue in the U.S. - said she was convinced to share her story by the rash of disturbing Cosby tales in recent weeks.
'For a long time, I thought it was something that only happened to me, and that I was somehow responsible,' she writes. 'So I kept this secret to myself, believing this truth needed to remain in the darkness.
'But the last four weeks have changed everything, as so many women have shared similar stories.'
lmcshane@nydailynews.com
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