Bill Cosby Plans 2023 Comedy Tour Amid New Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Bill Cosby said he may be able to tour again in 2023.

“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,” Cosby told WGH Talk.

Cosby’s publicist, Andrew Wyatt, stated to the Hollywood Reporter, “We’re looking at getting back out here around spring/summer of 2023.”

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This comes weeks after five women – actresses Lili Bernard and Eden Tirl who appeared on The Cosby Show, as well as Jewel Gittens, Jennifer Thompson and Cindra Ladd – filed a new sexual assault lawsuit against NBC and the comedian under a New York state law that suspends the statute of limitations for older sexual assault claims for a year. They accuse Cosby of assault, battery, and infliction of emotional distress in meetings spanning the late 60s to 80s.

Cosby has denied these allegations. Wyatt stated that the new case is about money, not justice for victims of sexual assault.

In 2014, more than 50 women came out with sexual assault allegations against Cosby. The next year, he was charged with assaulting Andrea Constand during the time she was working for Temple University’s women’s basketball team.

He was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to 3-10 years in prison but was released last year after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the conviction, ruling the prosecution violated his due process rights.