After the photo of former Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens went viral. He was met with support from his peers within the entertainment industry, as well as many fans.
Now the woman who took the photo is speaking out, and she says that when she took the photo, it wasn’t to shame the actor, and she’s now apologetic for her actions.
NJ.com sat down with Karma Lawrence, the woman who snuck the photo of the actor inside of the grocery store. In the interview, she revealed that she has been getting so much hate since the photos have spread.
She said, “I don’t know why I snuck a picture. I figured everybody does it. I don’t know what possessed me. I just did it. I didn’t even think about it. I just kind of did it on impulse and it was a bad impulse.”
She says she didn’t know that the photos would stir up the act of job shaming. In fact, she said that she loves Trader Joe’s and sees no shame in Owens working there. She actually thought because he was working there his residuals may have been cut because of everything surrounding Bill Cosby.
“It wasn’t malicious. That’s on my kids, my grandkids, my parents. I’m not that type of a person. I’m not the monster they’re making me out to be,” said Lawrence.
She also revealed that since the incident, she has turned off all of her social media accounts, and it has been hard for her to sleep knowing that she unintentionally hurt one of her favorite characters from the Cosby Show.
If given the chance to speak with Owens, Lawrence said, “I would tell him, ‘I am extremely, extremely apologetic about what has happened, and if I could take it back, I would.”
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