Sins Of The Father!

Bill Cosby’s TV Dad Took Comic’s Sick Secrets To The Grave

Sitcom patriarch cashed checks and looked the other way!

By National ENQUIRER Staff

Dec 6, 2017 @ 11:57AM

Bill Cosby saw to it that his TV dad died a tortured soul — taking the disgraced comic’s sex secrets with him to the grave! Earle Hyman was a fixture on “The Cosby Show,” beloved by millions as Russell Huxtable. The respected actor also had a bird’s-eye view of Bill’s sleazy serial sex abuse before dying Nov. 17 at age 91. “He was aware of what was going on,” a source close to Earle exclusively told The National ENQUIRER, “but did nothing about it.” That was after nearly 60 women accused sex-crazed Cosby of assault. Some of the iconic show’s cast members spoke out to either criticize or defend him — but Earle remained silent! And the respected stage actor wouldn’t have been alone had he stepped forward to blast Cosby’s creepy behavior on the sitcom set…

Bill Cosby’s TV Dad Took Comic’s Sick Secrets To The Grave

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"At first, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing," the insider told The ENQUIRER, "but then it started happening right before his eyes. He wanted to protect his career. Being on ‘The Cosby Show’ gave him more notoriety and money than he had ever seen in his entire career. So he said nothing!”

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Joseph C. Phillips, however,, called out the comic in a blog post titled “Of Course Bill Cosby is Guilty.” The actor, who spent two seasons as Cosby’s TV son-in-law Martin, wrote: “You didn’t have to see it or hear it to know that it existed.”

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And Cosby's TV daughter Lisa Bonet, whose character Denise (far left) was married to Martin, has also since blasted the disgraced comic, saying that Cosby had a “type of sinister, shadow energy [that] cannot be concealed!” She added: “I don’t need to say, ‘I told you so.’ I just leave all that to karma and justice and what will be!”