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this is "nightline." >> tonight, my story. yet another allegation of abuse from a bill cosby accuser. this time, super model beverly john sohn who says he drugged her. she describes what she says happened that night in a television exclusive. >> the second sip, i knew i had been drugged. plus, race and justice dominating the national dialogue right now. but tonight, we're bringing it home in a tale of two fathers. discoveries we make in candid conversations behind closed d r doors with our own children. and taylor's trust. it doesn't take much to push taylor swift over the edge in "blank space." but in real life, she has a secret weapon to stay grounded. and if anyone can get it out of
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women coming forward with allegations against the comedian. the man once beloved as america's dad for his role on "the cosby show" now reviled by many as the accusations just keep coming. johnson describes what she says happened that night, to abc's linsey davis in a television exclusive. >> reporter: tonight, a fashion icon adds her voice to the chorus of women accusing bill cosby of drugging them. beverly johnson. >> the drug was very powerful. >> reporter: much like cosby, johnson has long been viewed as a transformative figure in the black community. the first black model to grace the cover of american "vogue" and tonight, she's coming forward with damning allegations about what she says happened to her back in 1986. >> i get a call from my agency, modeling agency, stating that bill cosby wants me to come in for a part on the show. i was invited down to the studio
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and then bill cosby asked me to meet at his brownstone to go over the role. >> reporter: she says there was nothing out of the ordinary on the first visit. she says she was invited back a second time and cosby said he wanted to rehearse the role of a pregnant woman she'd be playing on an upcoming episode of "the cosby show." >> part of the exercise he wanted me to do was to act like you were drunk. the role of a pregnant woman on the show, but i said, well, okay. and i went with that. >> reporter: she says while at his house, he insisted on making what he said would be the best cup of cappuccino. >> i took a couple of sips or the cappuccino and from the first sip and then the second sip, i knew i had been drugged. i mean, i was woozy, my speech was slurred. it kent getting stronger as time went on. i knew that i was in changer.
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>> reporter: then, johnson claims, cosby started to touch her. >> he called me over as if to begin the scene, he placed his hands on my waist. >> reporter: the super model says she went into survival mode. >> i just called him every name i could possibly think of. some pretty strong names. he was getting angry. he was pissed. and he, you know, grabbed me by my arm and dragged me down the brownstone stairs and a taxi stopped and he threw me in the taxi. >> reporter: she says she recalls getting away. >> i feel very lucky that i wasn't raped. and i don't think i was raped. but i don't know how i got home. i don't know how i got upstairs. i would imagine it was my doorman that took me out of the taxi and got me upstairs. it was almost like a family member had betrayed me. it was such a huge sense of
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betrayal for me. >> reporter: since last month, more than a dozen women have come forward, claiming they were drugged, sexually assaulted or raped by cosby. in most cases, decades ago. cosby's lawyers didn't respond to our calls today, but in the past have dismissed previous allegations saying that "accusers are coming out of the wo woodwork with fabricated or unsubstantiated stories." another one of cosby's accusers spoke to cecilia vega about what happened to her. she says it was 1969, she was 19, a come bdy writer visiting s angeles. >> he took a liking to me and i liked him, too. he was really funny and friendly. we made jokes with each other. and he said, well, come up to my cabin, my cottage after i'm done working. and i'd loike to work on this with you. >> and you thought? >> i thought, cool.
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>> reporter: she believes she was drugged. >> the next thing i remember, i was on the couch and he was removing my underwear. >> that's what you remember about that? >> that's when i came to. and i was just horrified. and still kind of out of it. but just disgusted and disappointed and shocked. >> do you call the police? do you tell a girlfriend? do you tell your mother? do you tell anyone? >> i tell no one. i tell no one. because i had the victim's guilt of, i should have known better. >> reporter: like joan and many of cosby's other alleged victims, beverly johnson didn't report what she says happened to police. >> it's the norm to be silent. when i called a few girlfriends because i knew i was going to come forward with this today and i told them what happened to me, they began to tell me about the sexual assault that happened to them by someone else and i'm,
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like, horrified, why didn't you tell me? she said, i didn't want to tell you and the reason i told you was because you told me about yours. and at that moment, i said, oh, yeah. i -- i'm going to tell. >> reporter: now that all the other allegations are coming to light, johnson says she felt compelled to speak out. >> these women gave me the courage to come forward. >> reporter: johnson says she was initially hesitant about coming forward as a black woman. does it make it different for a black woman to come out accusing a black man? >> this was the most difficult decision that i've ever made. particularly now, with the michael brown and the eric garners. this attack on black men is real. and now i am, you know, calling out a black man, a revered black man and sometimes it's really
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hard to do the right thing. but this is the right thing to do. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm linsey davis in new york. >> for more of their interview, be sure to watch "gma" in the morning. next, conversations about race are getting a national platform tonight. but what do we say in the privacy of our own home? and later on "nightline," or barbara walters cuts right to the chase with good girl gone bad taylor swift. (vo) nourished.
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about justice front and center in a heated nationwide debate about race, we're bringing you behind closed doors for an intimate look at what that means for families. what do we say to our children? what are they learning on the streets, in school, from us? two dads invited me into these personal discussion as part of our week-long look at race and justice in america. two families living only miles apart. >> hello. >> reporter: both with dedicated fathers. >> i have a math test. >> how do you think you did? >> i think i did pretty good. >> reporter: each with a 10-year-old boy. >> you're a nerd. >> yeah, i'm a nerd. >> just like me. >> yeah. >> reporter: both middle class, married, college educated. >> remember this? >> yeah. >> reporter: but when it comes to the issue of race, these fathers and sons live in different worlds. >> you have felt people treated
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you differently because you were black? >> kind of in a way. >> i heard kids being racist. >> sure. and they get in trouble right away. it's definitely big in school because kids are just messing around. >> reporter: it's a chilly wednesday in suburban philadelphia. daniel and his son aiden are planning the final touching of their favorite winter tradition -- christmas lights. lots of them. >> we've got -- >> christmas trees. >> trees, mini trees, a big one in my bedroom. but there's a twist. >> what is that? >> we're jewish. every snowman here is my mom. >> aiden is bright, old soul. >> this is hand crafted. >> reporter: 10 going on 30. but what's happening now across america -- the protests, the anger after the deaths of michael brown and eric garner, has this little boy asking big questions. questions his father struggles to answer. >> he's african-american and people just, for some strange
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reason, don't think that they're equal. >> there's a part of me that looks at him and seeps him as this innocent little boy. and i hate we have to have conversations like this, but there are people who are living this. >> they live in abington. predominantly white suburb. daniel told aiden he doesn't have to fear police. but he wants to teach him, for many cases, that's not always the case. >> what's going on in ferguson? >> a teacher brought it up once, but every once in awhile, a kid will bring it up and everyone will start saying their opinion and the teacher kind of has to calm it down. >> you can't say, you know, all police are this or all police are that, you know, they're our friends and they work really hard to protect our community. but you know -- you have to be honest that there are problems. >> you know who eric garner is, right? >> uh-huh. >> who is eric garner? >> a person who was choked to
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death by a police officer. >> uh-huh. >> good morning. this is solomon jones on the 900 a.m. >> reporter: for solomon jones, a popular radio host, the race talk is a running dialogue with his son. >> when i look at my son, i see him as this a-b student, he's soft spoken, he wants to be a scientist. and i just don't want my son to have to go through some of the things that i've been through and some of the things i've seen other people go through. >> reporter: young solomon is quiet, studious. not a troublemaker. but his father worries in the heat of the moment, that won't matter. >> if you get stopped by the police, even if you feel like they stopped you for no reason -- >> like harassing you. >> just be polite. just get out of the situation so you can come home. and then we can file charges against them later. >> reporter: solomon wants to make sure his son is safe.
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that his face doesn't end up on a poster like this. nearly two-thirds of blacks say race was a big part in not dieting the officers in eric garner and michael brown. when i was a boy, my parents, we had, like, the sex talk, right? but in my house, we also had the race talk. do you guys have that conversation? >> no, we don't. except when something happens. >> i completely understand it with the thing in ferguson, i think african-american people would be scared that a policeman would do that again. but i think that after the ferguson thing, i think we should trust the police, still. they shouldn't be, like, i'm never going to call a policeman if i have an emergency. >> right. >> i think they should at least try calling them. >> reporter: statistically speaking, young black males are
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21 times more likely to be shot dead by police than their white counterparts. >> but you saw what happened with eric garner. when that happened, how did it make you feel? >> made me feel sad because they had it on tape and the people who were seeing the body counted it as a homicide and the policeman didn't get in trouble. >> why do you think that happened to eric garner? >> because the policeman hated, like, african-americans. >> do you really think that's why he did that? >> yeah. >> i know that there are a lot of good police officers. the problem is that when we have bad police officers, we can't get them out. they have to be rooted out because they're a danger to me as a black man, they're a danger to my son as a black boy. >> reporter: these men are close to their sons. want them to become the best of men. but even for them, the issue of race leads to challenging
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discoveries about each other. like when young solomon told his father about the moment a teacher told a classmate's word over his. >> was the girl black, too? >> no. >> was she white? do you think that's why they believed her and didn't believe you? >> yeah. >> how did that make you feel? >> ah, angry. >> that makes me feel angry, too. >> reporter: your eyes are watering. >> it makes me sad. because you don't want -- you don't want your kids to go through the things that you've gone through. you know, i don't want to see my son go through any pain. >> reporter: with the story from his own childhood, daniel surprises aiden, a bitter memory, prejudice runs generations deep. >> when i was little, i was at a friend's house and i overheard the father telling him to get that dirty jew out of my house. and i hadn't been exposed to much of that, but that moment was -- i felt, in danger.
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i felt -- um -- i was afraid. >> reporter: has he heard that story before? >> no, actually. you probably told it to men, but no, i don't remember it. >> reporter: in your life, have you ever been made to feel less than because you're jewish? >> not really. usually i'm, like, the only jew in the class. >> reporter: what's your takeaway, having to have those conversations with your son? think it's part of being a father. it's an uncomfortable conversation, it's a necessary conversation. >> reporter: two fours, two sons, for whom race in america is shaded by the color of their skin. yet there is a clear solution, they all agree. it starts with a conversation. >> i think that my role for them is to prepare them for real life and real life for african-americans, somebody said, it ain't no crystal stair. if you can't accept that racism still exists, if you can't accept that it is affecting what
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happens in the lives of black and brown men and women, then you can't solve it. >> we have to be honest. you can't keep pretending, just because, you know, i'm white, that racism doesn't happen. so, we do things differently. i think more people should. >> there are few bonds like father and child. next, does the music video for "blank space" reveal the truly psycho taylor swift? barbara walters is not afraid to ask. >> are you sane? ask. >> are you sane? >> yes. but thented using k-y yours & mine. yeah, we were nervous to try it. there's an amazing sensation for her. amazing. this one feels fantastic for me. and combined... ohh, it's a completely new sensation for us both. it's opened a whole new door for us. i've come to clean your pool. but we don't have a pool. i'll come in anyway. next week i'm going to be a maid. [ female announcer ] k-y yours & mine.
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♪ and you love the game >> reporter: barbara walters chose swift as one of the most fascinating people of the year and wasted in time beating around the bush. >> you seem very sane. >> thank you. >> are you sane? >> yeah, definitely. >> not that fashionable all the time? you seem very centered. where does it come from? >> i -- i think all the time about big concepts in my life. all the things you've asked me, they're incredible questions and they're the issues that i think about all the time. and i don't have answers for everything and that doesn't scare me. i think the reason i'm sane is because i have a really good family who are all very sane in the midst of all this kind of insanity surrounding my life, that really helped. it really helped. because i can talk to them about it and they're going to be very honest with me about it. but always really supportive.
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