Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand says she was 'crying out inside' in first interview about attack
Bill Cosby's accuser has spoken out for the first time about the night that he attacked her, telling how she was drugged and left "limp like a noodle" as she silently cried out for the assault to stop.
Andrea Constand, 44, accuses Cosby, 80, of sexually assaulting her at his Philadelphia home in 2004.
She told NBC News, in her first ever interview aired on Friday, that Cosby gave her three blue pills and said they would help her relax.
"'They're your friends. Just put 'em down,’” she recalled him saying.
"I took them because I trusted that they would maybe just help me feel a little more relaxed.”
Miss Constand was working as a basketball coach at Temple University, Cosby's alma mater, and saw Cosby as a mentor and friend.
After being drugged, she said: “My mind is saying: ‘Move your hands. Kick. Can you do anything? I don't want this. Why is this person doing this?’
"And me not being able to react in any specific way. So I was limp. I was a limp noodle.”
Asked whether Cosby said anything at the time, she replied: “No. No. He said nothing that I could recall. I was in and out of consciousness.
“Inside I was crying out inside, in my throat, in my mind, for this to stop. And I couldn't do anything."
Constand went to the police, but the then-district attorney said there was not enough evidence to prosecute. Instead he suggested a civil suit, and Constand was paid $3.4 million by Cosby in 2006.
However, when a new district attorney was elected, he reopened the case, just before the statute of limitations would have kicked in, and Cosby was charged.
In April a court found the comedian guilty of sexually assaulting her - a verdict which was greeted with jubilation by the 60 women who have accused him, but found themselves unable to press charges owing to the statute of limitations.
Cosby will be sentenced in September.
