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Bill Cosby's accuser testifies he gave her...
Constand told jurors she had only spoken with Cosby a handful of times, all related to her administrative job with the women's basketball program at Temple.
Constand testified that Cosby had given her three blue pills when she visited him at his home in the Philadelphia suburbs, which left her unable to resist when he sexually assaulted her. Cosby, a university trustee, followed the athletics department closely, she said. They are your friends. After briefly losing consciousness, she came round as Cosby was touching her private parts, she testified.
"I wanted it to stop", 44-year-old Andrea Constand told the second day of the trial in Norristown, Pennsylvania about an evening in January 2004 at Cosby's mansion in Cheltenham, just outside Philadelphia. Ms Constand says the calls concerned the basketball team. Moments later, Johnson said she began to lose her senses. Montgomery County detectives? Surely there wasn't enough time left in the day for Constand to be questioned by the prosecution and the defense. He invited her to dine with him at his home.
Cosby reportedly hung his head in hands during Constand's testimony, as well as rolled his eyes and shook his head.
She allegedly told investigators she had known Cosby six months at the time of the assault, but actually knew him for more than a year. "I began to slur my words and I told Mr. Cosby that I had trouble seeing him and I was seeing two of him", she testified.
While Cosby's lawyers have always argued that the sex that took place between Constand and Cosby was consensual, Constand's testimony in court on Tuesday paints a very different picture.
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Under cross-examination by Cosby's co-counsel Angela Agrusa, Constand was being painted as a gold digger after Cosby's fortunes, a profiteer framing Cosby as fiend not friend. Cosby kept still, looking down at the defense table through most of the morning. Constand's case is the only one in which Cosby has been charged. Daughter from "The Cosby Show" stands by comedian at trial " You were sitting by the fire.
"The room was dark, and there was a nice mood in the room, correct?" she said. Constand initially told police about the incident in 2005, but the then-district attorney declined to press charges against Cosby. "You know, the amount. the millions and millions of dollars that he has given back to colleges and education, and just what he did with "The Cosby Show" and how groundbreaking that was".
Not much is known about the accuser, and for a long time she valued (and still does) her privacy during the most hard time in her life.
Speaking to "ABC News" on Monday, Pulliam explained that she did not hesitate to appear by Cosby's side.
Dozens of women have accused Cosby of sexual assaulting them, often after plying them with drugs, in a series of attacks dating to the 1960s.
Agrusa seized on the seeming contradiction: "You were going to confront the man you say assaulted you, and you're bringing him bath salts?" She lost her ability to take risks on friendships, relationships.
Almost 60 other women have made historical allegations against the actor, but Ms Constand's case is the only one that has made it to trial.
While Cosby is on trial for the allegations made by Constand, a total of 58 women have alleged that he has committed similar indecent acts against them, including high-profile supermodels Janice Dickinson and Beverly Johnson. He said they would help her relax.
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