Andrea Constand Says She Became 'Limp Noodle' After Bill Cosby Drugged Her and Couldn't Stop Assault

Constand, 45, said she doesn’t remember if she was able to speak.

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

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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.'”

“He handed me some water, I get some water somehow, and I swallow the three pills down,” she said. “I took them because that they would maybe just help me feel a little relaxed.”

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Constand told Snow that her shame — and fear that no one would believe her — led her to stay silent about the incident for a year before she told her mother what happened.

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

source: people.com