--- title: Bill Cosby Rape Allegations: 5 Accusers Speak Out description: Five of the women who have publicly accused Bill Cosby of drugging and raping them appeared on CNN on Monday to condemn the actor canonical: https://time.com/3624774/bill-cosby-accusers-joint-interview/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-09T15:18:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T09:03:20.823Z og:title: 5 Accusers Speak Out Against Bill Cosby og:description: In a joint interview that aired Monday evening og:url: https://time.com/3624774/bill-cosby-accusers-joint-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 5 Accusers Speak Out Against Bill Cosby twitter:description: In a joint interview that aired Monday evening twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 5 Accusers Speak Out Against Bill Cosby > Sponsored content. 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Cosby Accusers Speak Out in Joint Interview_  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 9, 2014 3:18 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 9, 2014 3:18 PM UTC Five of the dozen or so women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault appeared during a joint interview that aired Monday evening to condemn the famed actor and comedian in primetime. “It’s unbelievable to be in the presence of these great women. It’s a sisterhood,” Barbara Bowman, whose Washington _Post_ [op-ed](http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/13/bill-cosby-raped-me-why-did-it-take-30-years-for-people-to-believe-my-story/) last month helped reignite discussion about the allegations, said on CNN. “The glue that bonds us might be morbid and sad and awful, but … I feel very protective of these people.” ### Bill Cosby’s Public Life in Photos  Bill Cosby performs on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. CBS/Getty Images  A portrait of Bill Cosby taken in 1965. Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Bill Cosby poses with his Emmy for his role in I Spy at the Primetime Emmy Awards in New York City in 1966. AP  A portrait of Bill Cosby taken in 1969. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Bill Cosby performs on The Second Bill Cosby Special in 1969. Fred Sabine—NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby attends the "Concert at Town Hall" at Town Hall in New York City in 1971. Ron Galella—WireImage/Getty Images  Bill Cosby as Chet Kincaid on The Bill Cosby Show. NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Frank Carroll—NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby is interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in 1992. Wendy Perl—NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby speaks to an audience on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia in 2006, in Washington D.C. LAWRENCE JACKSON—AP  Host Bill Cosby speaks onstage at the 2011 Jackie Robinson Foundation awards gala atThe Waldorf Astoria in 2011 in New York City. Stephen Lovekin—Getty Images  Bill Cosby attends the 2011 Temple University Commencement at the Liacouras Center in 2011 in Philadelphia, Pa. Gilbert Carrasquillo—Getty Images  Bill Cosby attends the 2014 American Comedy Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on April 26, 2014 in New York City. Andrew Toth—FilmMagic/Getty Images From their accounts of how Cosby allegedly raped them to the details of their traumatic experiences trying to recover, the women shared remarkably similar stories. They all said the actor had drugged and raped them; four of the five said they told someone in the immediate aftermath of the alleged crime, but were discouraged from going further. All five women said they have never sought financial compensation from Cosby and agreed they never would accept it. “I want him to suffer like we’ve all suffered,” said P.J. Masten_,_ who said she was assaulted by Cosby in 1979\. Masten said she knows other women who have not yet come forward. ## Transcript How many of you were drugged? Mm. Allegedly. All of you. All of you. Yes. And that seems to have been, from the women that we've spoken to, his M. O. Mm. Yes. There are allegations that he would drug women. Yeah. Right. Do you, who, who, who of you remembers being drugged? Tell me. Well, I remember both times. I remember both times. I remember having one. Bloody Mary topped with beer. As I've said he called it a red eye. And I woke up I don't know how long later with him taking off my clothes. And you don't pass out from one small drink. Do you think about him everyday? No. No. I'll tell you what it is though, Don. It's like this subliminal soundtrack. I don't think about my son dying 44 years ago every day, but it's always there just under the surface. How many of, show of hand, hands, have tried to get money out of Bill Cosby. None of you? How many of you would ever take money from Bill Cosby? Interesting. People claim that they're in it, in it for money. They've never tried to get money from Bill Cosby. He gave me $ 20. To take a, K called to cab, for, for me and gave me 20 bucks for the cab. Right. To me it would be a form of contempt from him. Mm- hm. And this, this isn't about, it's not about sex. It's about power. Yes. He's a predator. He, he goes after women. And he's not even a man. If you have to drug a woman to have sex with her, that's not a man, he's a coward. He's a despicable coward. He has the same MO with all of us. He identifies a vulnerable victim. He then gets them alone or lures them into. Place that sometimes where other people are in proximity. He drugs them. He does his thing with him, them. And then sometimes he waits for them to wake up, so he can hurt, he, yet more contempt. And what do you all want to see happen now to him? I want his Emmys taken away from him. You want his awards taken away. Absolutely. Take those awards away from him. He's a predator. The sad thing for me is that he's also victimized his four daughters. Yep. Cuz now they have to hear all about their. Yep. Daddy. And those poor girls. And poor Camille. This has to be a revolution. This has to. Change the, the, the fabric of this culture. Re, regarding this sit, this situation. It's, it's him. But we have lessons to teach our children. And we have, we, we have a responsibility to, for public awareness and to educate through action and, and through support and to reach out to. All the other women that are closely- Mm- hm. 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