Andrea Constand Came Forward About Bill Cosby's Sex Assault After She 'Woke up Crying' a Year Later

Mar. 16, 2025

“It was Dr. Huxtable,” she said, in an interview excerpt that aired Thursday onNBC Nightly News. “I thought I was the only person that he did this to. Who’s gonna believe me?”

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Constand’s mother, Gianna Constand, recalled the conversation forDateline.

He and his attorneys declined to speak toDateline.

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“He held out his hand and I said, ‘What are those?’,” she recalled. “He said, ‘They’ll help you relax.’ And I said like, ‘Are they natural? Are they like a herbal remedy?’ He said, ‘No, they’re your friends, just put ’em down.’”

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“I was crying out inside in my throat, in my mind, for this to stop, and I couldn’t do anything,” she said.

Constand’s full interview with Snow onDatelineairs Friday on NBC (10 p.m. ET).

source: people.com