Bill Cosby is looking forward to returning to tour in 2023. The controversial comedian said as much during a surprise radio interview Dec. 28 on “WGH Talk” with host Scott Spears. Cosby answered “yes” when asked if 2023 might be the year he might finally be able to tour again.
Cosby, now 85 years old, was convicted in Pennsylvania in April 2018 of criminal sexual assault. He was released in 2021 after nearly three years in prison after the state Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
“When I get out of this, I feel like I’m going to be able to perform and be the Bill Cosby that my fans know me to be,” Cosby told Spears.
Asked by Spears if 2023 will be the year of the mobile, Cosby replied, “Yeah. Yeah because there’s a lot of fun in this storytelling that I do. Years ago, maybe 10 years ago, I found it better to say it than to write it.” .
Cosby’s rep, Andrew White, confirmed that diverse that the comedian is “looking forward to spring/summer to start touring.”
Earlier this month, five women filed a new sexual assault lawsuit against NBC and Bill Cosby under a New York state law that temporarily suspends the statute of limitations for older sexual assault claims. Women claim that Cosby either raped them or forced them to have sex. Four of the allegations date back to the late 1980s or 1990s, when the actor was at the height of his fame as the star of NBC’s “The Cosby Show.” The fifth allegation concerns Cyndra Ladd, a former Hollywood executive who has Accused Cosby raped her in 1969.
White called the lawsuit “frivolous” and said the five women were part of a “courtesy of defendants” who came forward between 2014 and 2016.
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