Damon Wayans, the former star of the comedy show In Living Color, has come to the defense of Bill Cosby, who has been accused of drugging and raping numerous women over the years.
Wayans, during an interview with Angela Yee on the radio program “The Breakfast Club,” called the women making the allegations “bitches” and adding that many of them were “unrapeable.”
Wayans began with this fussillade of strangeness:
“If I was him, I would divorce my wife, wink wink, give her all my money, and then I would go to a deposition, I’d light one of them three-hour cigars, I’d have me some wine, and maybe a Quaalude, and I would just go off, because I don’t believe he was raping.”
So 50 different women are lying about being raped by the same man? Doesn’t sound very likely. And when was Damon Wayans hired as a defense attorney for Cosby?
But Wayans was far from finished, adding:
“I think he was in relationships with all of them, and then he’s like, ‘You know what, it’s 78, I can’t get it up for any of y’all, bye bitches. And now they’re like, ‘Oh, really? Rape.’ Forty years — listen, how big is his penis that it gives you amnesia for 40 years?”
Yee reminded Wayans that many of the women had come forward with rape allegations years ago. But Wayans swatted that away and said:
“But if you listen to them talk, they go, ‘Well, the first time.’ The first time?! Bitch, how many times did it happen? Just listen to what they’re saying.”
And then Wayans decided to take personal shots at the women:
“And some of them, really, is un-rape-able. I look at them and go, ‘No, he don’t want that. Get outta here!’ Look, I understand fame. I’ve lived it. Women will throw themselves at you. They just want to be in your presence. There’s some that innocently will come up there, but not 40-something women. They’re not that naïve.”
Later in the interview, Wayans attempted to soften his comments by expressing sympathy for anyone who might have been raped:
“My heart goes out to them. For anybody who was raped by Bill Cosby, I’m sorry, and I hope you get justice.”
But then, just a few seconds later, Wayans said it makes no sense for Cosby to have raped women who were drugged:
“What’s the joy of banging someone that’s asleep?”
Personally, I had already lost all respect for Bill Cosby. And now I can add Damon Wayans to that list.
