Helen Gumpel said Cosby behaved inappropriately toward her when she had a role on The Cosby Show in 1987. Two Cosby events scheduled for Sunday in Boston were cancelled.
A Boston theater cancelled two shows featuring Bill Cosby as protesters planned to gather, while another woman came forward to accuse the 77-year-old comedian of unwanted sexual advances.
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Gumpel, known as Helen Selby before her marriage, told reporters in Boston that she was called to the set shortly after filming her episode. She believed she was going to do another audition, but instead, she was taken to Cosby's dressing room, the Associated Press reported.
Cosby handed her a drink and stood with his crotch in her face, she said.
"I never thought of myself as a victim because I refused his advances," Gumpel said. "But my career was a victim."
Gumpel added that she was speaking out now because of Cosby's arrogance toward the more than a dozen women who have accused him of sexual assault, the Boston Globe reported.
Gumpel was most widely known in the '80s as the model for L'Eggs pantyhose.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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