Story highlights Goldberg talked about the threats on "The View"

She said Cosby is "innocent until proven guilty"

Singer Jill Scott has reversed her support for the comedian

(CNN) Whoopi Goldberg is supporting Bill Cosby even in the face of threats she says she has received.

"The View" co-host has long defended Cosby amid accusations of sexual assault from multiple women. But on Wednesday, she said on the show that she is increasingly taking heat for that stance.

"People have been coming after me and saying they're going to snatch my family," Goldberg said. "It's like being Frankenstein, people coming after you with the fire, and they're going to burn you."

Cosby has never been criminally charged and has consistently denied any wrongdoing, and Goldberg invoked the legal phrase "innocent until proven guilty" in talking about the controversy. She also cited the 2006 case in which members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape.

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