Bill Cosby accuser says he hid 'mental illness' behind TV dad facade
Cosby was released from prison in June after
Valentino said the father of five used his character, Dr. Cliff Huxtable on NBC’s “The Cosby Show,” as a paragon of virtue that shielded his true nature. “Maybe that was who he wished he could be if he weren’t so mentally ill,” Valentino continued. “Maybe that was what he aspired to, but his psychological disorders couldn’t possibly allow that to happen for him because of his obsessions, his compulsions, his sexual fetishes, his need to have a woman unconscious in order to be able to have sex with her.
“I believe that it was very difficult for Kamau, who like so many other young black men looked to Cosby as a father figure — America’s dad,” she added.
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