In a court deposition obtained by New York Times, Bill Cosby admitted to using drugs on women with the intent of having sex with them.
According to the report, the court deposition took place within a four-day period between 2005 and 2006. Cosby was questioned by Dolores M. Troiani, the lawyer of an alleged sexual assault victim named Andrea Constand.
During the questioning, Cosby told Troiani that he believed that the incident that happened between him and the Temple University employee was consensual, since she did not look angry when he walked her out and she never told him not to do it again.
He denied the sexual assault allegations, but admitted that he used several highly potent sedatives to attract women for sex. According to the excerpts, he managed to get seven prescriptions for the drug called called Quaaludes over a period of two to three years back in the 1970s. The prescriptions came from a Los Angeles-based doctor who knew that he would not be using it to treat back pain. While he confessed that he did not use Quaaludes himself because it made him sleepy, he mentioned that he used the drugs to have sex with women.
Cosby also discussed his encounter with one of the women, Beth Ferrier, who claimed that he drugged her back in the mid-1980s after they had a short consensual affair. According to Ferrier, she woke up feeling dizzy and discovered that her bra was already undone and her clothes a mess after drinking the coffee that he gave her.
The comedian also used several strategies to keep his wife, Camille, in the dark. He said that he normally tried to pay the women whom he had an affair with in order to keep his extramarital affairs from Mrs. Cosby, who he married back in 1964.
In line with Constand's complain, 13 other women came forward to share their own sexual abuse experiences with Cosby.
