Omarosa Manigault brought up Bill Cosby while explaining her relationship to President Donald Trump to Keshia Knight Pulliam on Celebrity Big Brother.
The 44-year-old former White House aide was telling Shannon Elizabeth, 44, about her experience in the White House during Thursday’s episode of the CBS show.
‘I was so loyal to a person, and I didn’t realize that by being loyal to him was going to make me lose about 100 other friends,’ said Omarosa who previously competed on Trump’s reality show The Apprentice.
Drawing comparisons: Omarosa Manigault brought up Bill Cosby while explaining her relationship to Donald Trump to Keshia Knight Pulliam on Celebrity Big Brother
Keshia, 38, played Rudy Huxtable, the daughter of Cosby’s Dr Cliff Huxtable, on the highly popular NBC sitcom The Cosby Show and publicly supported him last year during his sexual-assault trial.
She walked in as Omarosa was telling Shannon about her tumultuous time in the White House.
‘So I’m there fighting, fighting, fighting — getting my head bashed in — and nobody coming out to say, ”We support her”,’ Omarosa said.
Keshia during a confessional said that she and Omarosa could not be ‘further than polar opposites’ in their political views.
Polar opposites: Keshia asked Omarosa about working for Trump after saying they were ‘polar opposites’ in terms of political views
She didn’t feel sorry for Omarosa after joining the conversation and asked if she was ‘able to understand people from the outside looking in just saw the hate that that campaign incited and that you supported it.’
‘When you’re in the middle of the hurricane, it’s hard to see the destruction on the outer bands,’ Omarosa replied.
She then brought up that Keshia ‘stood strong’ by Cosby and people judged her for it.
Hurricane center: Omarosa when asked about her support of Trump said it was like being in the middle of a hurricane and hard to know the destruction being caused in the outer bands
Showing support: Keshia is shown publicly supporting Bill Cosby in June 2017 at his trial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania
Loyal friend: Omarosa is shown with President Donald Trump in February 2017 in the White House
‘Only you know your inner workings of your relationship with Mr Cosby,’ Omarosa said.
‘Oh, wow,’ Shannon interjected.
‘That’s the same thing with me and Mister Trump,’ Omarosa concluded.
Same thing: Shannon listened as Omarosa claimed her relationship to Trump was the same as Keshia’s to Cosby
Keshia declared it was an ‘apples and oranges’ comparison and pointed out that Trump was running the country.
Omarosa countered that Cosby was a revered figure in the black community.
‘People looked up to the Cosbys. That’s the same thing. I will stand firm by that, 100 percent,’ she said.
Standing firm: Omarosa said the black community looked up to Cosby much in the same way the country views the presidency
Omarosa later in the episode during an interaction with houseguest Ross Mathews tearfully said she worried for the country under Trump.
She was an assistant to the president and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison until she left in December.
Ross asked if the country was going to be OK and she gave an ominous reply.
Getting emotional: The former White House aide got emotional while talking to Ross Mathews about her experience
Good question: Ross asked if we should be worried and Omarosa said we should
‘No. It’s going to not be OK,’ she replied, adding in a whisper, ‘It’s so bad’.
The women on the show including Omarosa, Keshia, Shannon, Brandi Glavnille, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ariadna Gutierrez maintained their all-female alliance during the second part of the three-part premiere.
They recruited openly gay TV personality Ross on their side and set their sights on James Maslow and Chuck Liddell.
Forming alliances: Chuck Liddell and James Maslow talked about trusting Ross
Metta World Peace admitted to Shannon that he misses his wife and children and wished to go home.
Mark McGrath also revealed his willingess to work with Shannon who held Head Of Household after winning an endurance competition.
Show host Julie Chen at the end of Wednesday’s episode introduced a twist involving a Gift Bag each had been given.
Household hold: Shannon Elizabeth held Head Of Household after winning an endurance contest
One of the gift bags included a Recast ability to switch the Head of Household, but required claiming.
Chuck tried for the gift bag prompting all the women and Ross to do the same to increase their odds of winning.
Keshia won the right to open her gift bag and won the Recast ability.
Gift bag: Keshia with her Gift Bag won the ability to Recast
She nominated Chuck and James for eviction.
The third and final part of the Celebrity Big Bother premiere will air on Friday on CBS.
The 11 houseguests were vying for a $250,000 grand prize and the condensed 13-episode season will conclude on February 25.
Eviction notice: Chuck and James were nominated for eviction by Keshia