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Phylicia Rashad Celebrates Bill Cosby's Prison Release, Turns Off Comments on the Tweet

Phylicia Rashad Celebrates Bill Cosby's Prison Release, Turns Off Comments on the Tweet

Phylicia Rashad must have known she was going to get a lot of backlash when tweeting this statement.

The 73-year-old actress, who played Cosby’s sitcom wife, Clair Huxtable, for all eight seasons of The Cosby Show, sent out a tweet after news broke that he would be released from prison following his sexual assault conviction being overturned.

Click inside to read what she wrote…

She posted on her Twitter account, “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!” She limited the responses to only those who she personally follows on Twitter. She only follows two people on Twitter, meaning only two people would be able to respond to this particular tweet.

You can find out all about why Cosby is being released from prison right here.

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