Saying sorry? Phylicia Rashad responded to backlash over her support of Bill Cosby’s release from prison, claiming she is still a champion of sexual assault survivors.“I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward,” the 73-year-old actress wrote via Twitter on Wednesday, June 30. “My post was in no way intended to be insensitive to their truth.”The Cosby Show alum, who played Cosby’s TV wife Clair Huxtable for eight seasons from 1984 to 1992, added: “Personally, I know from friends and family that such abuse has lifelong residual effects.
My heartfelt wish is for healing.”Hours earlier, Rashad cheered over the news that her longtime friend had been released from jail nearly three years after he was convicted of sexual assault.“
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