Actress Phylicia Rashad recently sat down for an interview with Bustle, where she spoke about starring in the new Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour film Black Box, and she also looked back fondly on her time playing Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show. She stated, "I loved those years. I was thinking about it just yesterday morning. It was such a creative time, and a collaborative time. It was a high, high time. It was a great time. And it gave people in the world a lot."
When asked for her thoughts on some people saying they can't watch the show after Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for aggravated indecent assault, Phylicia doesn't understand why people would shun the sitcom. She explained, "I don't know why anybody would feel that way. I just don’t accept what somebody says because they say it, and they say it in a loud voice. The internet has given a lot of anonymous people a very loud voice. And this, too, has happened before."
Rashad then brought up author Zora Neale Hurston dying "penniless" due to false allegations from a "vindictive" neighbor, who claimed Hurston molested her 10-year-old son. She then urged the interviewer, saying, "You should go back and look at some charges that were brought up against her that didn’t make any sense. And look at what happened when the judge had thrown out the case, but it had gone through [Black magazines], through this step and the other, and her books were taken off the shelf."
The actress then seemingly speaks cryptically about Cosby, stating, "And so I know what I know, and I just stay with what I know,. And it will happen in time, that this will come around another way, as it often does. And then people say, 'Oh.'"
Source: Bustle
