Bill Cosby's Wife, Camille, Defends Husband in Public Statement

Camille Cosby, the wife of the embattled comedian and TV personality Bill Cosby, has issued her first public statement about the dozens of rape accusations that women have publicly leveled against Cosby.

Numerous media outlets released the statement, including CBS News via Twitter.

The statement recounts how both met and fell in love in the early 1960's and how they married just a year after meeting.

The statement goes on to defend Bill Cosby as, "kind," "generous," and "funny." It argues that Bill Cosby is the man that America grew to know and love on "The Cosby Show," where he played a gentle patriarch named Cliff Huxtable by saying, "He is the man you thought you knew."

Camille Cosby then goes on to attack the media and blame it for the troubles that have befallen the Cosbys by saying, "It is also a portrait painted by individuals and organizations whom many in the media have given a pass. There appears to be no vetting of my husband's accusers before stories are published or aired."

Bill Cosby has had productions with Netflix and NBC cancelled as the revelations captured the nation's attention.

Camille Cosby ends her statement by referencing a recent article in Rolling Stone, which turned out to have been fabricated. The Rolling Stone article involved accusations of rape at the University of Virginia that have been shown to be false.

In reference to that episode, the statement ends with, "None of us will ever want to be in the position of attacking a victim. But the question should be asked - who is the victim?"

In that incident, it was the word of one woman against seven men and their fraternity. In the Cosby incident, the tables are flipped, with more than a dozen women publicly saying that Cosby assaulted them.