Cosby Got Accuser Story Spiked in ’05, According to His Own Testimony

Multiple news outlets this morning are reporting on a big new piece of news in the Bill Cosby saga: during court testimony years ago, he admitted to giving an interview to The National Enquirer just so they would squash an article about another women with sexual assault allegations against him.

Andrea Constand filed a lawsuit against Cosby in 2005, and roughly a dozen other women had been set to testify (the case was eventually settled out of court). But during his testimony, Cosby admitted to stopping another woman from coming forward with allegations against him. According to the court documents released this week, Cosby said he gave an interview with The National Enquirer and they would “not print the story of––print Beth’s story.” Cosby’s referring here to Beth Ferrier, who said back in 2006 that Cosby had drugged her and she woke up with her bra unhooked.

Cosby was asked, “Did you ever think that if Beth Ferrier’s story was printed in The National Enquirer, that that would make the public believe that maybe Andrea was also telling the truth?”

Cosby replied, “Yes.”

In that 2005 interview, Cosby had responded to sexual molestation allegations by saying, “Looking back on it, I realize that words and actions can be misinterpreted by another person, and unless you’re a supreme being, you can’t predict what another individual will do.”

[h/t NYT, CBS News]
[image via Randy Miramontez/Shutterstock]

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