The allegations surrounding comedian Bill Cosby have created quite a stir in the media, as nearly 50 women have come forward with accusation of drug-assisted rape and sexual assault. Zoë Kravitz, daughter of actress and former The Cosby Show kid Lisa Bonet and musician Lenny Kravitz, recently opened up to the U.K.'s Guardian about how her mother feels about the criminal accusations and why she decided to stay silent all this time.
"She hasn't, she really hasn't. She'd plead the fifth, even to me," said 26-year-old Kravitz when asked if she ever spoke with her mother about the allegations. "I think she's just staying out of it. She's just as disgusted and concerned as everyone else is, but I don't think she has any insight."
Bonet played the second oldest sister, Denise Huxtable, on the hit television series The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1991, followed by the spinoff show A Different World, also created by Cosby. She was reportedly fired from The Cosby Show at the age of 23 for unresolved "creative differences" and written off A Different World after getting pregnant.
Kravitz went on to discuss how people questioned if her mother was involved in the scandal, because she worked with Cosby so long and her fountain of youth looks. The young actress and lead singer of Lolawolf believes her mother would openly speak out about any injustice that took place, especially if it meant she could help other people.
"She was on the show for a long time. She's also a beautiful woman. It makes people wonder. She's a very straightforward person. If there was something she felt the world needed to know that would help this case or help any women who had been abused, she would say something."
Cosby has repeatedly denied the sexual accusations brought against him and has given extremely confusing answers when asked about it in interviews. However, he did admit to giving Quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with in documents that newly surfaced last month. The 78-year-old was caught in a similar investigation in 2005, when a Temple University employee accused him of drugging and sexually assaulting her.
"When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with," asked the woman's attorney. Cosby replied, "Yes." In the deposition, the comedian also recalled an incident in Las Vegas in 1970 where he was quoted as saying, "She meets me back stage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex."
Thirty-five of the 50 women accusing Cosby of sexual assault were featured on the cover of the July issue of New York Magazine, detailing their alleged encounters with the entertainer for the world to know. Days before the issue was released, Cosby's attorney Monica Pressley said just because a large amount of people repeat a particular statement doesn't necessarily make it true.
Bonet's on-screen husband Joseph P. Phillips, also had some choice words about his former boss and idol. On July 13, Phillips published a post on his website with the title, "Of Course Bill Cosby is Guilty!" Although Phillips professed how much he loved the comedian and how much of an inspiration he's been in his life, he still believed Cosby's transgressions weren't a secret.
"When I joined the cast of the Cosby Show in 1989, it seemed to be common knowledge that Bill played around," wrote Phillips. "When I say common knowledge, I mean that it was just something that people seemed to know without anyone saying anything. Bill sleeping around was a 'fact' that, like, the air, seemed to just be. You didn't have to see it or hear it to know that it existed."
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