Kathy McKee, a Metro Detroiter, is one of 35 women on the much-talked-about July 27 cover of New York Magazine, who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault over the decades.
McKee, 66, (top row, last person on the right) alleges that she was assaulted by Cosby in the early 1970s.
New York Magazine writes:
McKee toured with Sammy Davis Jr., whom she dated, and McKee got to know some of Davis’s friends. McKee had known Cosby for eight years when, after a Detroit show, the comedian invited her back to his hotel room. Cosby opened the door, spun her around, and penetrated her. She came forward in 2014. “I managed to get over to the guest bathroom. I tried to figure out what was happening, what had happened. I was really very confused and shocked and mixed up. It happened so fast. Bill had been a friend. I had worked with him. I had known him for many, many years. He never made a pass at me. So when this happened to me, I just couldn't understand what was wrong with him. Had he lost his mind? Was he on drugs? What the heck was going on?
Kathy McKee/Photo from NY Daily News videoI'm thinking maybe I'll just slip out the front door and go. Well, he was standing, completely dressed now, and ready to walk out the door. [He] said to me, ‘Okay, come on, let's go. They're waiting for us.’ I don't even think I spoke. I just walked. He opened the door to the suite, and I walked right on out there, and went to the elevator and pressed the button. He’s not talking to me. He was behaving like a person that I had never met before in my life.”
McKee was one of two Cosby accusers from Metro Detroit featured in a recent Detroit Free Press story by reporter Patricia Montemurri. The other woman was Angela Leslie.
"The lesson here for women ... is step up, don't be afraid," McKee told the Freep. She said she stayed silent for years out of fear of reprisal from the Hollywood power structure and Cosby himself.
