Constand: I’ve forgiven Cosby

BILL COSBY molested her and tried to drag her name through the mud, but Andrea Constand forgives him.

“He needs help, and he needs to repent for what he did, not only to me but for a lot of women,” Constand told “Dateline” in an interview broadcast Friday night.

“I forgave Bill Cosby for what he did to me . ... If I did not forgive him, I wouldn’t have peace,” Constand said in her first interview since Cosby was convicted of assaulting her.

Constand, 45, detailed how Cosby knocked her out in 2004 with three blue pills he called “your friends,” and her reaction to the attack that followed.

A Montgomery County, Pa., jury in April convicted Cosby, 80, of aggravated indecent assault.