Bill Cosby gestures as he leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Friday, June 16, 2017, in Norristown, Pa.
In a statement issued jointly with her lawyers on Saturday, Constand thanked prosecutors and police who worked on her case. It says the trial has "given a voice to the many victims who felt powerless and silenced". He pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Constand at his home near Philadelphia in January 2004.
On Thursday, after more than 30 hours of deliberations, the members of the jury told the judge they were deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous consensus.
Steadfast Cosby supporters can point to juror division as evidence of a prosecution case that was far from open-and-shut.
He will remain free on one million dollar (£782,000) bail.
While prosecutors fought to call 13 other accusers to testify against Cosby, only one, Kelly Johnson, was permitted to do so.
Cosby's wife of 53 years, Camille, slammed prosecutors for bringing the case to court, calling District Attorney Kevin Steele "heinously and exploitively ambitious" in a statement released after court adjourned.
Steele said he's disappointed the jury was unable to agree on the charges, but vowed to put Cosby on trial again.
He was eventually charged in December 2015, just days before the statute of limitations was set to expire.
More than a dozen excerpts from Cosby's deposition, including the "friends" comment and his acknowledgment that he'd gone "somewhere between permission and rejection" during a previous encounter with Constand.
A jury deliberated for more than 52 hours over six days before declaring itself hopelessly deadlocked.
Constand did not appear at the news conference.
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Cosby's team declared victory and went on the attack.
"I just want to wish all of the fathers a happy Father's Day", Cosby said.
But if the man once adored by millions as "America's Dad" escaped conviction today, prosecutor Kevin Steele said that he meant to seek a re-trial as authorised in such cases under the law.
She also thanked her husband's attorneys "for their hard work" along with her staff "for their continuous commitment to our family and me".
"It's too early to celebrate Mr. Cosby", she said.
Cosby has continued, through his representatives, to deny that he committed any sexual assaults - admitting to infidelity but maintaining that all the sexual contact was consensual.
Bill Cosby's trial on sexual assault charges has ended without a verdict after jurors failed to break a deadlock.
A New York-based poet and former model, Allison sat in the courtroom day after day as Cosby was tried for allegedly drugging and molesting Andrea Constand in 2004 and as the jury struggled to reach a verdict.
In Cosby's case, that could have involved the more than 60 other women who have accused him of assaults dating to the 1960s.
O'Neill praised the jury for its "selfless" and "courageous" effort to reach a verdict, and called the Cosby case likely the largest undertaking in the history of the county's criminal justice system.
Jurors also asked for, and received, a definition of reasonable doubt, the threshold that prosecutors must cross to win a conviction, and reviewed testimony from Constand and her mother about phone conversations they had with Cosby after the encounter.
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