It's been 26 years since the last episode of The Cosby Show aired, and now Lisa Bonet is speaking out about her onscreen dad, Bill Cosby 
 
 For years, Bonet has kept quiet about the allegations made against her disgraced co-star, while a few of the other cast members have come out defending Cosby, including Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm Jamal Warner. But in an interview with Net-a-Porter's PORTEREdit, she opens up about how she really felt about him. 
 
 Asked whether she knew about the sexual harassment allegations surrounding Cosby, the actress replies, "There was no knowledge on my part about his specific actions." Instead, she speaks about an energy that she felt from him—"that type of sinister, shadow energy" that can't be concealed. So, while she was not aware of the alleged incidents as they occurred, she always felt something about him was not right. ||||| Lisa Bonet says she enjoys a warm relationship with ex-husband Lenny Kravitz, the father of her actress daughter Zoë but not TV father Bill Cosby. She says he always exuded a "sinister" energy. (Photo: George Pimentel, WireImage) 
 
 In a new interview with the fashion website Net-a-Porter's PORTEREdit, former Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet broke her silence about her feelings towards her TV father, who is alleged to have drugged and sexually assaulted upward of 60 women over the course of 50 years. 
 
 Cosby was tried last fall on sexual assault charges brought by former Temple University athletic department employee Andrea Constand who says he assaulted her at his home in Montgomery County, Pa. It ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Jury selection in his retrial is set to begin March 29. 
 
 "There was no knowledge on my part about (Bill Cosby’s) specific actions, but … There was just energy," said the 50-year-old actress who played Denise Huxtable, his second-oldest child on the long-running NBC comedy. "And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed.” 
 
 She added, "If I had anything more to reveal, then it would have happened a long time ago. That’s my nature. The truth will set you free.” 
 
 Does Bonet feel any schadenfreude towards Cosby, with whom she feuded about appearing nude in the 1987 film Angel Heart and her pregnancy and engagement to Lenny Kravitz? 
 
 “I don’t need to say, ‘I told you so’,” she told interviewer Sanjiv Bhattacharya. “I just leave all that to karma and justice and what will be.” 
 
 Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2p2RHpA ||||| Like a lot of self-described misfits, she found an escape in acting. At 16, she became Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show, and then its spin-off show, A Different World, at the time two of the most popular shows in the world. Have the revelations about Bill Cosby’s alleged sexual misconduct tainted her memory of those years? She looks evenly at me. “No, it’s exactly as I remember it,” she says. But did you have a sense that anything was happening? “There was no knowledge on my part about his specific actions, but… There was just energy. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed.” You sensed a darkness? “Always. And if I had anything more to reveal then it would have happened a long time ago. That’s my nature. The truth will set you free.” 
 
 At the time, Bonet was branded a rebel who tested the patience of the most popular sitcom dad in the country. She showed up late on set and posed topless in Interview magazine, contrary to his wishes. Cosby famously opposed her role in Angel Heart, in which she performed a nude sex scene with Mickey Rourke. “I don’t need to say, ‘I told you so’,” she says about Cosby’s current situation. “I just leave all that to karma and justice and what will be.” 
 
 It was around this time that she fell for Lenny Kravitz, and their marriage was like a firework, bright and intense, but ultimately short-lived. What did you expect, I tell her, you married a rock star! She smiles. “He wasn’t when I met him.” They were almost too perfectly matched – both half-Jewish and half-black; both dreadlocked and gorgeous; talented and young. Lenny was 23 and Lisa just 20. Just over a year after they met, Lenny got a record deal, and Bonet co-wrote some of the songs on his first album. When she became pregnant with Zoë, she says, “people were falling off roofs trying to get pictures.” The divorce, just six years in, was crushing. But with Zoë to think about, there was no room for recriminations. Bonet went through what she calls “a very accelerated time, spiritually and intellectually.” In other words, she grew up really fast. Determined not to burden their daughter with her baggage – “I didn’t want to pass on those heirlooms, and this fresh wound of a divorce” – Bonet reconciled with Kravitz and focused on her daughter. “I think there are probably times when these thresholds can either sink you,” she says, “or you can see who you are and rise and dust yourself off.”
– "I don’t need to say, ‘I told you so,'" Lisa Bonet tells Net-a-Porter. “I just leave all that to karma and justice and what will be.” The interview published Friday marks the first time the one-time Cosby Show star has spoken publicly about the allegations against her TV dad, E! News reports. “There was no knowledge on my part about his specific actions, but … there was just energy," Bonet says. "And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed.” Cosby has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting over 60 women, USA Today reports. Bonet tells interviewer Sanjiv Bhattacharya that if she knew anything about specific incidents she would have already come forward. "The truth will set you free," she says. Bonet was 16 when she started playing Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show, and her relationship with Cosby soon grew strained. Not only would she show up late for filming, but the two butted heads over her personal life. Cosby opposed her doing a nude sex scene in the movie Angel Heart and appearing topless in a magazine. Her pregnancy and engagement to Lenny Kravitz was also an issue. Cosby eventually fired Bonet over "creative differences." The legendary comedian is now facing a retrial on some of the allegations against him. Bonet's Cosby Show costars Malcolm Jamal Warner and Phylicia Rashad have come to Cosby's defense.