Bill Cosby outside the Montgomery County Courthouse after mistrial declared.
Tensions reached a fever pitch at one point when a male juror punched the concrete wall of the jury room, according to the juror who spoke to ABC News.
There were only two holdouts against finding Cosby guilty of having digitally penetrated Andrea Constand without her consent and of a second count that he'd assaulted Constand after giving her drugs without her knowledge, which impaired her ability to resist the attack.
Minutes after a Pennsylvania judge released their names, the jurors who deadlocked in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial were hunted by local and national media.
Andrea Constand testified that Cosby drugged and molested her at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
Constand, 44, of Toronto, met Cosby through his alma mater, Temple University.
When the judge did not make the names of the jurors public at the end of the trial, several news organizations, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press, The Washington Post and The New York Times, filed a motion requesting access to the names, citing their First Amendment right.
The Associated Press tried contacting jurors for comment on Wednesday but was not immediately able to reach any of them. "Further, future jurors will be reluctant to speak up to say what they think when deliberating if they fear that what they say during deliberations will not be kept secret", O'Neill wrote in his court order.
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"There was no budging" after the first deadlock, the juror said. "They had five sheriff's deputies at the door and they could hear us and they kept coming in because they thought we were already fighting".
The jury was selected from the Pittsburgh area and spent two weeks sequestered 300 miles (482 kilometers) from home.
The juror declined to identify the holdouts or detail how any jury member voted, but said that jurors initially voted overwhelmingly in a non-binding poll to find Cosby not guilty on all counts. On the count that she was unconscious or unaware during the incident, the juror said only one person found the comedian guilty, while the other 11 voted to acquit.
The juror who spoke to ABC News also described a tense deliberation room that saw people break down in tears and lash out.
Prosecutors wanted the names to remain a secret, claiming the release would result in a "publicity onslaught" and make picking a jury for the second trial more hard.
Jurors were selected in Allegheny County because Cosby's attorneys argued that pretrial publicity would make it hard to find impartial jury candidates in Montgomery County, where Cosby lives.
DiLucente says he has no concerns that jurors being interviewed could affect Cosby getting a fair trial in the future.
The names of the jurors who deadlocked in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case have been released.
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