New York Daily News

You are a mother f----r aren’t you

Drugged supermodel’s Cosby hell

- BYLARRY McSHANE

SUPERMODEL Beverly Johnson (inset) said Thursday that Bill Cosby fed her a drug-laced cappuccino in the mid-’80s — and threw her out of his East Side brownstone after she resisted him. “I knew by the second sip of the drink that I’d been drugged,” she said.

THE CHORUS OF Bill Cosby’s accusers grew louder Thursday by one prominent voice: supermodel Beverly Johnson.

The history-making model said America’s Dad fed her a drug-laced cappuccino during a mid-’80s get-together at his East Side brownstone — and angrily threw her out when she resisted his advances.

“I knew by the second sip of the drink that I’d been drugged — and drugged good,” she wrote in a lengthy Vanity Fair piece posted Thursday on the magazine’s website.

“My head became woozy, my speech became slurred and the room began to spin nonstop.”

The real-life alter ego of TV’s beloved Dr. Cliff Huxtable wrapped his hands around her waist as Johnson’s body went completely limp, she wrote.

Before the creepy comedian could take advantage of his defenseles­s prey, she began screaming at Cosby.

“You are a motherf---er, aren’t you?” she shouted repeatedly until a disgusted Cosby roughly dragged her to the street outside his home, she said.

Cosby lawyer Martin Singer did not return a request for comment on this latest devastatin­g account from his client’s highest-profile accuser yet.

Johnson, now 62, was the first black model to make the cover of Vogue in the U.S. during a long career on the catwalk. The 5-foot-9 model eventually did more than 500 magazine covers. She later moved into acting, wrote a book and launched her own lines of designer glasses and costume jewelry.

She was the latest of more than a dozen women to come forward in recent weeks, portraying the 77-year-old actor and comedian as a sexual predator who preferred his targets to be helpless.

The still-stunning Johnson became the third to allege Cosby drugged them inside the Manhattan home that he shared with wife Camille and their kids.

Just days before the alleged attack, Cosby hosted Johnson and her daughter for brunch after the NBC star contacted her agent about a possible small speaking part on his hit show.

“My daughter loved him,” Johnson wrote. Cosby invited the pair to a taping of his show.

Things took a far darker turn when Johnson came back to his home by herself.

According to Johnson’s account, Cosby asked her to pretend to be drunk — a story similar to that told by two other women about their sexual abuse at the hands of the mega-star.

The Emmy-winning “I Spy” star then insisted that Johnson try a cup of cappuccino made fresh from a machine in his living room.

“I told him I didn’t drink coffee that late in the afternoon because it made going to sleep at night more difficult,” Johnson recalled.

“He wouldn’t let it go. He insisted that his espresso machine was the best model on the market, and promised I’d never tasted a cappuccino quite like this one.”

That much was true.

After a few sips to appease her host, the supermodel — who was hoping the small “The Cosby Show” part would boost her career — knew she was in deep trouble.

As her consciousn­ess began to drift, Johnson said she kept screaming the same obscenity at Cosby over and over.

“At one point he just dropped his hands from my waist and just stood there looking at me like I’d lost my mind,” she recount- ed.

“I remember his seething anger at my tirade and then him grabbing me by my left arm hard and yanking all 110 pounds of me down a bunch of stairs as my high heels clicked and clacked on every step,” she continued.

“I feared my neck was going to break with the force he was using to pull me down those stairs.”

Cosby then flagged down a cab and roughly shoved her inside. Whatever Cosby gave her, she wrote, knocked her out until the next morning — when she woke up in her own bed.

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