Bill Cosby is plotting a attainable return to the stand-up comedy stage in 2023, the comic and former TV star revealed throughout a Dec. 28 radio interview with WGH Talk host Scott Spears.
The announcement comes following the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s determination in June 2021 to overturn Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and his subsequent launch from jail.
“When I come out of this, I feel that I will be able to perform and be the Bill Cosby that my audience knows me to be,” the 85-year-old comic instructed Spears.
After being requested by Spears if he may tour in the brand new 12 months, the onetime Cosby Show star replied, “Yes. Yes, because there’s so much fun to be had in this storytelling that I do. Years ago, maybe 10 years ago, I found it was better to say it after I write it.”
A rep for Cosby confirmed to our sister website Variety that the comic is eyeing a “spring/summer” begin for his tour.
As beforehand reported, in June 2021, Pennsylvania’s highest court docket overturned Cosby’s sexual assault conviction after it discovered that an settlement with a earlier prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case, in accordance with the Associated Press. Cosby was launched from jail later the identical day.
Cosby released a statement following the choice: “I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence. Thank you to all my fans, supporters and friends who stood by me through this ordeal. Special thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for upholding the rule of law.”
The overturned conviction got here greater than three years after Cosby was first convicted in April 2018. Later that 12 months, he was sentenced to a few to 10 years in jail for 3 counts of sexual assault. He was charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault after being accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his Philadelphia dwelling in 2004, and was registered for all times as a sexually violent predator.
Cosby is at the moment going through a brand new sexual assault lawsuit, which was filed earlier this month in opposition to him and NBC by 5 ladies beneath a New York state regulation that quickly suspends the statute of limitations for older sexual assault claims.
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