BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Bill Cosby launched into a tirade aimed at Howard University after the institution admonished a comment made by his TV wife Phylicia Rashad in the wake of Cosby’s overturned sexual assault conviction and subsequent release from prison last week.
The historically Black university in Washington, D.C. said Rashad’s controversial Twitter comment, which read, “’FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”’ was a stance that “lacked sensitivity towards survivors of sexual assault” and maintained that her views on the matter are not aligned with the university’s.
The tweet has since been deleted.
Rashad has been appointed as Howard University’s dean of the College of Fine Arts. The “Cosby Show” actress’s position became effective on July 1.
Critics included several Howard University alumni and current students, many on social media who called for her to be fired from the school or for her to “step down.”
Now, in the wake of an apology and backtracking from Rashad, who later said she “fully supports survivors of sexual assault coming forward” and that her social media post ’was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.”
Cosby, 83, is now coming to the defense of Rashad and told the university it “must support ones Freedom of Speech,” making reference to Rashad, according to a statement obtained by Deadline. “The only Freedom of Speech I feel should be suppressed, are women I hung out with that woke up disoriented laying next to me, speculating on what I did to them, when I have no doubt that they couldn’t know for sure what I did, after the drug I slipped to them took full effect.”