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Q: Transcript for Phylicia Rashad Addresses Bill Cosby Allegations 
  
 Tonight, we have an ABC news exclusive. She played bill Cosby's wife on TV for eight years, and now as her former co-star is swarmed with allegations of sex abuse, Phylicia Rashad is airing her views, many of them controversial, to ABC's linsey Davis. What has happened is a legacy has been attacked. A legacy is being erased. Reporter: For eight years, Phylicia Rashad played bill Cosby's wife and tonight, she's standing by him once again, this time amidst a wave of allegations. People have been waiting to hear from you. Have they? Reporter: Coming to his defense as more than a dozen women make accusations against the famed comedian, claims in some cases that he drugged them, even sexually abused them. What do you say to the women who have painstakingly told these stories of abuse, that they were raped, sexually assaulted, drugged? What can I say to these women whom I don't know? What can I say to things that you are hearing when I'm telling you what I've seen. I'm telling you what I've experienced. What can I say? Reporter: What about them when you first heard women were saying they had been drugged or raped. I had never heard that before. So this was the first time I was hearing anything like that. And I can't speak to those things and don't want to. Reporter: And now Rashad has found herself in the center of her own controversy, because of this online report. You were quoted online as saying, forget those women. And that was a misquote. That is not what I said. What I said is, this is not about the women. This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of a legacy. That's what I said. Reporter: Some people might think it was dismissive. I am a woman. I am a woman. I would never say such a thing. I would never think such a thing. I did not say that. Reporter: Our calls to roger Freeman at showbiz online were not returned. After a portion of our interview aired earlier tonight, the reporter posted, I did not misquote Phylicia Rashad, but she didn't mean for it to be taken the way it was and I should have punctuated. Today, three new accusers came forward, and their attorney, Gloria Allred, lashing out at Rashad. Phylicia, I vow to you that I will not forget these women. I remember waking up in a bed with Mr. Cosby naked his open robe. Reporter: Adding that they've escalating far past the point of absurdity. Even tonight, as bill Cosby performed in front of a packed audience in Ontario, with a handful of protesters outside, Rashad believes that the allegations are all an orchestrated attack. I do want to get your initial reaction to the allegations. Well, my initial reaction to the allegations was, hmm, someone has a vested interest in preventing Mr. Cosby to return to network television. Reporter: Was there any dialogue ever that you would come out in support of him or something he asked you to do? Oh, no, no, no. I did talk to him towards the beginning of all of this, and his common thing was, the internet has given some anonymous people a very loud voice. Reporter: It's all about tarnishing Cosby's legacy, she says, the showy debuted in the '80s was one of the first media images that portrayed african-american families as educated, ambitious, and driven. And this is my office. What do you do? I'm a doctor for women. We're talking about a legacy that inspired a generation of young people to consider and pursue higher education. We're talking about a legacy that introduced and portrayed American culture in its diversity. It's difficult for me to watch this legacy be erased, as if it never happened. There is the constitution of the United States, which ensures innocence until the proof of guilt, and that has not happened. Reporter: The Tony award winning actress played a loving yet firm attorney and wife to Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable. At no time on the set did you ever see anything appropriate? What I saw was fun. Never anything inappropriate. What I saw was work. Mrs. Cosby was a frequent visitor to the studio. That's what I saw. Reporter: Insisting that the man she knew -- Is a genius. He's generous. He's kind. He's inclusive. Reporter: The man that America fell in love with night after night right here on your television screen. You saw the shows. And that is what it was. Reporter: To critics who might say, of course, Phylicia Rashad is going to come out in support of bill Cosby. She has a lot to gain and benefit if the show continues to air. Clet Oh, really? The longer the show runs, the smaller the residuals. Reporter: Have you spoken to him recently? No, I haven't. Speaking to the character of the man that I know, this has not been easy at all. But he's not a coward. You know, he' Reporter: Kesha knight also spoke out in defense of Cosby. I don't know what happened. The man I know and love, you know, is who I just described. Reporter: Supermodel Beverly Johnson says it was his legacy that made it so difficult for her to come forward. This is one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made. I am calling out a black man, a revered black man, but this is the right thing to do. Reporter: But for years, she said, she held a dark secret, damning accusations that Cosby drugged her. From the first sip and then the second sip, I knew I had been drugged. Reporter: Rashad wouldn't comment on Johnson's case or any specific allegations. That's your conversation with her. I don't know anything about that. Reporter: But she does say she knows bill Cosby. Is there any way for him to rebound from this? I don't have all the answers. I don't know. But I think in the hearts and minds of many people, he is held in high regard. Reporter: And you still hold him in very high regard? Absolutely I do. Yes, I do. Reporter: For "Nightline," I'm linsey Davis in New York. 
  
 This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. ||||| Folks, I have been out of pocket all day on a personal matter. Let me clear something up. I did not misquote Phylicia Rashad. But she didn’t mean for it to be taken the way it was, and I should have punctuated better. There was NEVER the meaning in ‘Forget those women’ that she was saying to actually forget or dismiss them. She meant, ‘those women aside’– as in, she’s not talking about that, she’s talking about Cosby’s legacy being destroyed. It was conversational. Somehow this got twisted. I am really sorry if the way I presented it made it seem like either one of us was forgetting anyone. I’ve been at a hospice on and off for 10 days with a family friend of 40 years. So really, let’s all calm down. What Phylicia was doing was defending her friend and his legacy. That’s what she said, that’s what I wrote, I’m sorry if it caused her grief. And no one asked me to write this. I’m just saying it because I like and respect her. 
  
 PS I am also taking out the “Forget those women” because it was misunderstood, and not for any other reason. ||||| I am very dismayed by the attacks I’m seeing on Phylicia Rashad. She spoke to me reluctantly, and did not want to become part of the media grinder. She was defending her friend, and I encouraged her. Frankly, no matter what Gloria Allred, Janice Dickinson or Beverly Johnson says, everything leveled at Bill Cosby is just an allegation. There are no police records, no arrests, convictions, trials, etc. 
  
 This doesn’t mean I think he’s innocent or not guilty. (Just watch the vultures turn this way now.) But Bill Cosby deserves a defense from his friends if they choose to give one. Not only that, but Phylicia Rashad is no dummy. Some accused her of trying to save her residuals from The Cosby Show. That’s insane. There is no financial motivation. Rashad is a smart woman. She is allowed her opinion. Give her credit for defending someone she knew for a dozen years at the height of his fame. 
  
 Something I didn’t tell you– Phylicia has been asked to play Michael B. Jordan’s grandmother in “Creed,” Ryan Coogler’s updated “Rocky” movie. This means she’s Apollo Creed’s widow. What coup for Coogler and producer Irwin Winkler. Rashad has a Tony Award for Best Actress in “A Raisin in the Sun”– the 2004 production that featured Sean Combs. She is a highly regarded dramatic actress, up there with Rosemary Harris and Angela Lansbury (not as old, certainly) and Janet McTeer– in the top tier. 
  
 I do think if Meryl Streep or Glenn Close had said the same things about Bill Cosby, no would have dared criticize them. 
  
 And for those celebrities that have: just think what would happen if allegations started pouring out of the wood work about you. Regardless of truth. To be tried in public, and ruined, is something so easily done to anyone. I looked at stories about Steve Kroft today and winced. ||||| EXCLUSIVE It was just happenstance: I ran into Tony winner Phylicia Rashad today at Paramount’s super elegant lunch for the movie “Selma” at the Metropolitan Club. Rashad co-starred with Bill Cosby for 12 years as his TV wife– first on “The Cosby Show” and then on its sequel “Cosby” featuring Madeline Kahn. She will always be Claire Huxtable, wife of Dr. Cliff, and mother of the Huxtable family. 
  
 No one knows Cosby better than the soft spoken, smart, articulate Rashad, for whom I have a lot of respect. So far she has not said a word about the scandal that has engulfed Cosby and is systematically destroying his 50 year career and reputation. 
  
 So far. 
  
 Now, as the extraordinary “Selma” lunch– which featured a brilliant performance by Common and John Legend of their theme song, “Glory”– Rashad and I had a talk about Cosby. No less than Harry Belafonte and Ruben Santiago Hudson were hovering above us as we chatted. Let’s make something clear. Rashad, who is one of our greatest stage actresses, has kept quiet, didn’t seek me out, and even said “I don’t want to become part of the public debate.” 
  
 But knowing this she did say to me “I love him” about Bill Cosby. She stands defiantly behind him. She told me that in the years she’s known him, she has never seen the behavior alleged by the women who say they were drugged and raped, or sexually harassed. 
  
 Rashad said: “What you’re seeing is the destruction of a legacy. And I think it’s orchestrated. I don’t know why or who’s doing it, but it’s the legacy. And it’s a legacy that is so important to the culture.” 
  
 Rashad dismisses claims from both Beverly Johnson and Janice Dickinson. “Oh, please,” she said when their names came up. She also is quick to defend Camille Cosby. “This is a tough woman, a smart woman,” she told me. “She’s no pushover.” There is no question, Rashad said, that Camille Cosby has not been complicit or looked the other way as her husband terrorized women for the last 50 years. 
  
 She said, “Someone is determined to keep Bill Cosby off TV,” alluding to people other than the women. “And it’s worked. All his contracts have been cancelled.” 
  
 We talked more about the legacy of The Cosby Show. “This show represented America to the outside world. This was the American family. And now you’re seeing it being destroyed. Why?” 
  
 She said Cosby himself is probably too proud to raise a defense. I countered that his silence reminded me of how Jerry Lewis reacted whe, after 50 years. the Muscular Dystrophy Association treated him like dirt. He refused to fight back. To quote a popular song from the 70s: “If you don’t know me by now, you will never never know me.” 
  
 So what to do about Cosby’s accusers? Rashad feels strongly that some other force is at play– for some reason, Cosby’s great strides in education, as well as show business, are being ruined so that new generations will only remember him by this scandal. And what about a defense from the man himself? “If he spoke now, what do you think the media would do with it?” Rashad asked. And let’s face it, she’s right about that. |||||
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Phylicia Rashad was quoted as saying "forget these women" accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault yesterday as she defended her former TV husband, but last night she told ABC's Nightline those controversial words never came out of her mouth. "That was a misquote. That is not what I said. What I said is, this is not about the women. This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of legacy. That's what I said." She added, "I am a woman. I would never say such a thing. I would never think such a thing. I did not say that." She did not, however, back down from her defense of Cosby and her skepticism about the scandal. "My initial reaction to the allegations was, 'Hmm. Someone has a vested interest in preventing Mr. Cosby's return to network television,'" she said, adding that when she spoke to Cosby about the accusations, he told her, "The Internet has given some anonymous people a very loud voice." As for Roger Friedman, who initially quoted Rashad on Showbiz 411, he responds to her latest comments: "I did not misquote Phylicia Rashad. But she didn't mean for it to be taken the way it was, and I should have punctuated. There was NEVER the meaning in 'Forget those women' that she was saying to actually forget or dismiss then. She meant, 'those women aside'—as in, she's not talking about that, she's talking about Cosby's legacy being destroyed. It was conversational. Somehow this got twisted." He apologized and removed the line in question from his original article, explaining he did so "because it was misunderstood, and not for any other reason." And in a third column, he says he was "dismayed" by the attacks on Rashad that followed his first column. "She is a highly regarded dramatic actress, up there with Rosemary Harris and Angela Lansbury (not as old, certainly) and Janet McTeer—in the top tier," he wrote. "I do think if Meryl Streep or Glenn Close had said the same things about Bill Cosby, no [one] would have dared criticize them."