Beverly Johnson has found it in her heart to forgive Bill Cosby.
It's unlikely that the supermodel, 62, will ever get the chance to offer this sentiment to the disgraced comic whom she has accused of drugging her in the mid-1980s.
"I forgive you," Johnson said when "Good Morning America" co-host Amy Robach asked her what she'd say to Cosby if given the opportunity.
But as she immediately made clear, that doesn't mean she's ready to completely let the once-beloved entertainer off the hook.
"I'm going to leave that to the Justice Department," she said when Robach asked her what she thought should happen to Cosby. "I just feel that he's a lightning rod for a much bigger conversation, and that conversation would be the rape culture in America."
Johnson is one of dozens of women to come forth and accuse Cosby of having assaulted them over the decades.
She first detailed the incident in a first-person essay for Vanity Fair last December, describing how the comedian had her over to his Manhattan brownstone twice to read for a part on "The Cosby Show." The second time he drugged a cappuccino he made for her, she says, though she was able to escape before he could do worse.
Johnson said she never came forward out of fear of what the very powerful Cosby would do to her in return.
"In the end, just like the other women, I had too much to lose to go after Bill Cosby," she wrote. "I had a career that would no doubt take a huge hit if I went public with my story."
The model talked about the incident more as part of New York magazine's incredibly powerful package about the comedian's many victims in July.
"The part of it I wasn't prepared for was the onslaught of women that have been assaulted and them telling me their story because I told mine," she told the magazine.
Johnson further details the alleged assault in her just-released memoir, "The Face That Changed It All," which was co-written by Allison Samuels.
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