Roseanne Barr once tried to joke about the sexual assault allegations Bill Cosby is facing, but she spoke seriously about the issue in a new interview this week. The outspoken comedian said that she wasn’t even surprised when women began coming forward.
Barr sat down with Access Hollywood and was asked if the allegations surprised her.
“No, because like everybody else - now I'm really [going to get] in trouble – but, you know, like every woman in Hollywood - there's hardly any hairdressers or waitresses or working women who don't know somebody,” Barr told the show. “We've all heard it for a long time, and it surprises nobody.”
Barr, like Jay Leno, cited Hannibal Buress’ October comments as the event that convinced women to finally speak publicly.
Barr said that she hopes Cosby finds a way to make it right.
“Maybe it's not the end of it. ... I have hopes for this great comic. I do. I have hopes that he would just make it clean, and make it, you know, make it right, and I do think he could do that,” she said.
The former Roseanne star does think that Cosby’s reputation is damaged, but again, he should be able to find some way to fix the situation.
“I think it's damaged, but, I mean, there's none of us alive who can't go, 'I made a mistake. I had a really bad problem and I'm fessing up to it. And here's a scholarship,’” Barr said. “You know, there's a million ways around it to go. But there's nothing more powerful than, 'I am sorry.'"
Barr has been vocal about Cosby on her Twitter account, even joking that she “got in a tussle” with Cosby.
As for Cosby, his attorney has denied these claims. Just last week, the wife of Oscar-winning producer Alan Ladd Jr. claimed that she was raped by Cosby in 1969.
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