It has been a little while since another new alleged victim of Bill Cosby has come forward to make allegations against him, but as it turns out, Chelsea Handler had an interesting experience with him years ago. As she puts it, the legendary comic tried to "Cosby" her, and it is probably her built-in distrust and street smarts that saved her from being another victim with another real story to tell. She reveals her sketchy encounter in a new magazine interview.
Handler recently sat for a full interview with Esquire, and in it she details her experience with the famed comedian.
"I was in Atlantic City playing, doing stand-up, and he was doing stand-up in Atlantic City in the same hotel, and at like 3 o'clock in the afternoon, someone from the hotel came down and said, 'Oh, you know, Mr. Cosby would really like to meet you up in his hotel suite,'" she told the magazine.
"And I thought, 'That's really weird.' This was like 10 years ago. And I said, 'That's really weird. I don't want to go alone. I go, 'I don't know him.' So the three guys I was with -- thank God these guys were with me. One was filming and one was like a producer; we were filming something -- I brought them up with me to his room and thank God I did, because now I know what would've happened if I went up there alone," explains Handler.
This encounter with Cosby supposedly happened about 10 years ago, which would have been right before Handler really broke through and was offered her long-running E! gig. For the most part, those are exactly the type of women whom he has allegedly victimized, ones who have yet to gain a real name in Hollywood for themselves.
Now, years later, Handler says she absolutely believes the allegations of rape and drugging that have been made against Cosby. She also feels pretty confident that if she hadn't brought people to his room with her, then she would have suffered an all-too-familiar fate.
Do you think that when a straight-shooter like Handler comes forward with a story to tell, it somehow bolsters everything else Cosby has been accused of? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.
