Andrea Constand was the first woman to press charges against Cosby in 2005.
Before the conviction was overturned, Harvey was outspoken in support of his friend and mentor.
“‘Bill Cosby helped my sons at Morehouse, and he taught me how to do this business.
He didn’t even know me and taught me how to do this business.”
Over time, they grew to be close friends who even spent time with each others’ families.
“Bill Cosby taught me something when I first got started,” he recalled to The Hollywood Reporter.
“He said, ‘Steve you have the ability to make people laugh.
Many of these crimes he perpetrated by drugging the women with pills and alcohol.
No matter how many accounts were made, Cosby staunchly denied all allegations.
When Harvey attempted to support his friend amid news of the trial, it didn’t go as planned.
You don’t need none of this on you,” the “Family Feud” host said.
That’s an amazing thing for a guy to say."
Despite this, Steve Harvey said that he believed Cosby was completely innocent until proven guilty.
In 2021, Cosby was freed from prison after his lawyers declared his conviction a mistrial.
After serving nearly three years in prison, Cosby was a free man.
Unsurprisingly, there probably aren’t anypeople willing to work with Cosbynow that he has been released from prison.
She showed public support for her former co-star upon news of his release.
“FINALLY!!!!
A terrible wrong is being righted a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”
Rashad tweeted the day Cosby’s conviction was overturned.
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