Garcelle Beauvais’s new guide, Love Me As I Am, is brimming with tales not solely about her childhood and immediately, however her earliest years within the leisure business, when she was a mannequin and first showing in TV reveals and flicks, reminiscent of 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 after I bought to his brownstone that I wasn’t the one one there in addition to him. There was one thing eerie about not figuring out if there’s anyone else in the home after which having, you realize, him asking me if I wanna drink and I wasn’t a drinker. So it was all these issues,” Beauvais advised Bevy Smith this week on SiriusXM’s Bevelations. “After which one thing advised me, ‘Get out of there.’ And that is precisely what I did.”
Since 2014, dozens of ladies have accused Cosby of sexual assault, a lot of them after they’d 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 all the time 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 children have 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 might’ve been me simply piling on and I would not need folks to suppose that, oh, I simply wished to be a part of that and have my title on the market. I included it within the guide as a result of it was an element, it was part of listening to your intestine.”
