Invoice Cosby goes from the massive home to the massive display screen.
The disgraced comic was sprung from State Correctional Institute-Phoenix, in Montgomery County, Penn., on Wednesday after his sexual assault conviction was dismissed due to a prosecutor’s decades-old settlement.
Now, Cosby mentioned he’s working with Michelle Main on a documentary, reportedly to be produced by Lionsgate Leisure, about his case. In accordance with the previous sitcom star, it’s virtually full and Cosby solely wants to sit down for his interview, which ought to happen within the subsequent few weeks.
Main — a former producer of “Good Morning America” and government producer of Vice Media’s “Black Lives Matter: A World Reckoning” — is alleged to have attended Cosby’s trial.
Neither Main nor a spokesperson for Lionsgate returned requires remark.
Cosby, who met up together with his spouse, Camille, at their Higher East Aspect townhouse, additionally revealed that he’s “in all probability” going to take part in a e book about his story, although it’s undecided if he’ll write it himself, and that he has already spoken together with his tour supervisor and plans to return to the stage.
The comic — who mentioned he feasted on pizza, collard greens and hen post-release — claimed he’s on a mission to get “the reality out and get folks to grasp that that is severe it should be revealed what occurred.”
He mentioned he’ll work to help individuals who have been falsely accused in court docket and wrongly tried and convicted. “We will’t let up. We’ve bought to mobilize,” Cosby mentioned. “We’ve bought to get the NAACP and it’s Disaster Journal concerned and black journalists, black males writers, black girls writers, everybody should put their pen to paper and get the reality out.”
The editor of Disaster journal referred The Put up to a spokesperson for the NAACP who didn’t return a request for remark.
Cosby, who served greater than two years of a three-to-10-year sentence for felony aggravated indecent assault in opposition to Andrea Constand, was not launched as a result of the court docket discovered him to have been falsely accused.
His launch stems from a 2005 settlement made with Montgomery County District Lawyer Bruce Castor Jr. that promised to defend Cosby from prison fees on the matter in alternate for the comic giving a deposition in Constand’s civil case in opposition to him. In 2017, days earlier than the statute of limitations was set to run out, Castor’s successor Kevin Steele filed fees in opposition to Cosby.
As for Cosby’s return plans, one well-known superstar disaster communications specialist advised The Put up that there’s a slim likelihood for achievement.
“For somebody whose repute is so broken, that is probably the perfect technique amongst restricted choices. If he follows via by highlighting and probably financing profitable appeals of others claiming egregious prosecutorial misconduct, this method might probably salvage one thing constructive for his legacy,” mentioned the disaster specialist, who requested to not be named as Cosby shouldn’t be a consumer. “However, with so many accusations and such damning testimony in opposition to him, it won’t rehabilitate his picture.”
Cosby was interviewed by Stacy Brown for The Put up
