Raven-Symone Says Bill Cosby's Legacy Can 'Be Separate From' His Sitcom

Raven-Symoné is opening up about the complicated legacy of her former The Cosby Show costar Bill Cosby. “Separate the creator from the creation, and that’s just where I live,” Symoné, 39, said on the Monday, November 3, episode of the “Hate to Break It to Ya” podcast. “The creation changed America [and] changed television.” Cosby, 88, conceived his eponymous The Cosby Show in the 1980s, which ran for eight seasons about a fictional Black family in Philadelphia. Symoné got her big break on The Cosby Show, joining in the final years as Cosby’s onscreen step-granddaughter, Olivia. Decades after T