Model Beverly Johnson was the first African American woman to be featured on the cover of Vogue in 1975. She had a successful career as a model throughout the 70s, and became an aspiring actress in the 1980s. Now 62, Johnson has said that in the 1980s, she too was drugged by Bill Cosby. She reveals her story this month in Vanity Fair. She writes: “As I wrestled with the idea of telling my story of the day Bill Cosby drugged me with the intention of doing God knows what, the faces of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and countless other brown and black men took residence in my mind.”
Johnson writes that the “current plight of the black male was behind my silence when Barbara Bowman came out to tell the horrific details of being drugged and raped by Cosby.” She added, “I couldn’t sit back and watch the other women be vilified and shamed for something I knew was true.”
