Garcelle Beauvais’s new ebook, Love Me As I Am, is brimming with tales not solely about her childhood and right now, however her earliest years within the leisure trade, when she was a mannequin and first showing in TV exhibits and films, akin to Coming to America, Miami Vice and, in 1984, The Cosby Present. She remembers encountering the latter present’s co-creator and star, Invoice Cosby, who has since repeatedly been accused of sexually assaulting girls, when she was 18.
“I felt like once I obtained to his brownstone that I wasn’t the one one there apart from him. There was one thing eerie about not figuring out if there’s anyone else in the home after which having, you already know, him asking me if I wanna drink and I wasn’t a drinker. So it was all these issues,” Beauvais instructed Bevy Smith this week on SiriusXM’s Bevelations. “After which one thing instructed me, ‘Get out of there.’ And that is precisely what I did.”
Since 2014, dozens of girls have accused Cosby of sexual assault, lots of them after that they had been drugged. The comic was infamously convicted of assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, though his conviction was overturned on a technicality in June.
Cosby has at all times maintained his innocence. His rep declined to remark for this story.
Though Beauvais did not discuss her brush with Cosby when a lot of the victims got here ahead, within the wake of the #MeToo motion, she was compelled to incorporate it in her memoir.
“You realize, my youngsters had been little [back then] and my divorce [from Mike Nilon was going on], I did not wanna drag them into it. And I felt like I did not have something concrete,” Beauvais mentioned of her 14-year-old twin sons with Nilon, Jax and Jaid, and her now grownup son Oliver with ex-husband Daniel Saunders. “It could’ve been me simply piling on and I would not need individuals to suppose that, oh, I simply needed to be a part of that and have my title on the market. I included it within the ebook as a result of it was a component, it was part of listening to your intestine.”
