Erika Alexander on Bill Cosby: "He Wasn't Who We All Thought He Was"

Actress Erika Alexander is best known for her roles on "The Cosby Show" as Pam Tucker and "Living Single" as Maxine Shaw made her debut on The Breakfast Club This morning. In the interview, she spoke about a number of things ranging from racism in Hollywood to not even watching "Living Single" until the show had ended its run. But the most shocking thing she spoke about was her time working on "The Cosby Show"  with Bill Cosby himself.

On "The Cosby Show" Erika played the recurring main role of Pam Tucker appearing in 20 episode from Seasons 7 to 8 of the shows run. The character moved in with The Huxtable family after her mother moved away. 

During her interview with The Breakfast Club, she spoke on how she got booked to play Pam saying that she had auditioned for the snow numerous times for varying rolls but didn't get anything concrete for awhile till they made the role of "Cousin Pam" for her.  

In the Interview, Charlamagne Tha God asks Erika "Did you see this sinister energy that Lisa Bonet saw" referring to a recent interview Bonet had done where she commented on Cosby saying “But…There was just energy. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed,”.

Her response was "Unfortunately you know he wasn't who we all thought he was and it was disappointing and it's painful. I think I saw things that I thought were cruel at the time but I had also been raised in a cruel world."

Erika goes on to talk about how Cosby never made an advance on her and how going into the show she didn't expect him to be the way he was. When asked to give an example of Cosby's "cruelty" she  said:  

"Well you know I think when you're the biggest star in the world after a while it goes to your head and you forget yourself, you forget that you're representing not only the show but your representing who people think you are. So when you go in I don't expect the person to be goody-goody, but you do expect them to have class about things and sometimes it's just violating and you go "I just didn't expect that" 

You can check out the full clip of her speaking on Bill Cosby below. 

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