Main accuser takes stand in Bill Cosby trial
Main accuser recalls 2004 encounter
NORRISTOWN, PA. Andrea Constand, star witness and main accuser in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial here, took the stand Tuesday and told a jury that her former Temple University mentor drugged her and assaulted her as she lay helpless at his home in suburban Philadelphia in 2004.
The Canadian-born Constand, 44, testified she went to Cosby’s home to talk about her career. He offered her three blue pills to help her “relax,” she said.
“I thought I was having a bad reaction. ... My legs were getting rubbery. ... I don’t really remember passing out.”
Sometime later, she jolted awake, she said, and felt Cosby’s hand “groping my breasts.” She said she felt his hand in her vagina and he placed her hand on his penis. She wanted to stop him, she said, but wasn’t able to do so.
“I was frozen. ... The next thing I recall is putting my two feet on the ground and feeling my ( bra) around my neck,” about 4 a.m. or 5 a.m.
In tears, Constand said she felt humiliated and confused as she drove away from Cosby’s house the morning after.
Under prosecution questioning, Constand said she met Cosby several times at his home and at restaurants.
Once before the night in question, she testified, Cosby touched her inappropriately. So why did she continue to visit Cosby, she was asked. “I wasn’t scared of someone making a pass at me or an advance at me,” she said.
Constand’s cross-examination continues Wednesday.