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 The Cosby Show wrapped, the comedian was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 60 women. He was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018, and he was sentenced to three to

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