Katherine claimed the 77-year-old comedian molested her in a hotel room in Michigan when she was on tour with Sammy in the 1970s.
- Dec 23, 2014
AceShowbiz - Another Bill Cosby accuser has gone public. Sammy Davis Jr.'s ex-girlfriend Katherine "Kathy" McKee opened up about her story in an interview with New York Daily News, published on Monday, December 22.
Kathy, who is an actress, casting director and former Las Vegas showgirl, claimed Bill molested her in a hotel room in Michigan when she was on tour with Sammy in the 1970s. She said she had known the comedian for eight years when the incident happened.
"Back then, I was Sammy's road wife," Kathy shared, "He had an open marriage, and we were lovers. That's how it went." She said she was once invited by Bill to a party on a boat. "He was a buddy. He knew I was Sammy's girl," she said of Bill, explaining why she accepted the invitation.
Kathy said Bill asked her to pick up some ribs from local hotspot Checker Bar-B-Q and pick him up from his hotel. "I remember I walked in the door, and he had a robe and cap on. He took the ribs from my hands and just grabbed me," she recalled.
"He spun me around, pulled my panties down, and just took it. We were still standing at the door when he attacked me. It was so fast and so shocking and so unbelievable," she told the site, "To me, there was a different personality involved. He was a different man. It felt like a different person performing that act."
After the incident happened, Kathy and Bill shared an icy silence on their way to the boat party. "I never said a word. I was too uncomfortable about it. Bill was so rude and cold toward me the rest of the night. I thought, 'When this boat docks, I'm out of here.' I just left," she shared.
Kathy, who appeared on "The Bill Cosby Show" in 1971 before the incident happened, said she never told Sammy about the incident. "I didn't want to put that in Sammy's head. I was mad at my own self for not saying, 'What the f**k?' Why didn't I stop it and get him away from me? But it happened too fast. I was absolutely flabbergasted."
Kathy said she didn't come forward with her story for years because she was afraid of her career. She told the site that she just buried the freaky incident. "I figured, 'If I don't think about it, it won't bother me.' Of course, with all these women surfacing now, it flushed it out."
"It was a rape, but it seemed so strange to call it that. We think of rape as a stranger who attacks you in a parking lot," she added, "I chalked it up to another powerful person in Hollywood who just felt he could take what he wanted from women."
Kathy commented on Bill's wife Camille Cosby who defended him amid his scandal. "I knew [Camille]. We'd been to dinner, all of us, many times," she said, "This is not a stupid woman. She has her head buried in the sand."
