Add supermodel Beverly Johnson to the long list of women who say Bill Cosby drugged their drinks and tried to take advantage of them.
The history-making model said Cosby tried to attack her nearly 30 years ago when she met him at his Manhattan brownstone to read for a part on “The Cosby Show.”
Johnson, in a first-person article for Vanity Fair, said Cosby insisted she have a cappuccino from a large espresso machine on his bar.
“I knew by the second sip of the drink Cosby had given me that I’d been drugged — and drugged good,” wrote Johnson, who, in 1974, became the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Vogue.
“My head became woozy, my speech became slurred, and the room began to spin nonstop.”
“Cosby motioned for me to come over to him as though we were really about to act out the scene. He put his hands around my waist, and I managed to put my hand on his shoulder in order to steady myself.
“As I felt my body go completely limp, my brain switched into automatic-survival mode.”
To keep Cosby in check, Johnson said she dug down deep and found just the right words to confront him.
“You are a motherf–ker, aren’t you?” Johnson spewed at him, according to the article. “That’s the exact question I yelled at him as he stood there holding me, expecting me to bend to his will. I rapidly called him several more “motherf–kers.”
Cosby allegedly grabbed her arm and “yanked” the drugged model down the stairs and out to the street, where he put her in a cab.
Johnson said she called Cosby’s home several days after the drug wore off to confront him, but the comedian’s wife, Camille, answered the phone and said he was not available.
Johnson dropped it.
“In the end, just like the other women, I had too much to lose to go after Bill Cosby,” Johnson wrote. “I had a career that would no doubt take a huge hit if I went public with my story.”
Cosby’s attorneys did not respond to requests for comment, the magazine said.
Johnson, 62, said the parade of women — including her friend and fellow supermodel Janice Dickinson — accusing Cosby compelled her to come forward, even as she struggled with “ruining the image of one of the most revered men in the African-American community.”
“Finally, I reached the conclusion that the current attack on African-American men has absolutely nothing to do at all with Bill Cosby,” Johnson wrote.