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13250234, That's not a fair representation of what happened
Posted by PimpTrickGangstaClik, Fri Apr-13-18 07:11 AM
Sad that that's the headline they chose to go with and people are running with it.

The headline (and your post) is technically correct. Just very misleading.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/12/601933551/i-wanted-to-punch-him-cosby-accuser-janice-dickinson-testifies

Yet despite this, she buried the account for years, fearing going public would damage her career. "I felt victimized, and that's why I didn't go to the police," she said. "I had clients who would not appreciate the fact that I had been raped."

When it was Mesereau's turn to cross-examine Dickinson, the intensity of the courtroom ratcheted up.

Wielding a copy of Dickinson's 2002 memoir, No Lifeguard on Duty, Mesereau forcefully asked why her retelling of the 1984 incident in the book's pages did not include rape.

Dickinson chalked it up to poetic license, saying the ghostwriter did not include it. Plus, she said, she "was broke and needed money to pay for my children's education."

In other words, Mesereau asked, she lied in her memior to make some money?

"I don't lie, sir. Don't call me a liar," she shot back.

Mesereau pushed: "You tell a completely different story in your book," he said. "You say in this book you didn't have sex with him at all."

Without missing a beat, Dickinson said, "I wasn't under oath when I wrote that book."