Legal documents from the court unsealed Monday revealed comedian Bill Cosby, 77, confessed under oath that he acquired a sedative drug called Quaaludes, a muscle relaxant, with the intention of giving it to unsuspecting young women in order to have sexual intercourse with them, reports The Irish Times.
According to The Economic Times, the admission came from the actor in a 2005 civil case hearing filed by Andrea Constand, past employee of Temple University in Philadelphia, where Cosby is an alumnus and was also a member of the board of trustees. He stepped down last December when sexual abuse charges against him increased.
Constand accused Cosby of tricking her into taking the drug before sexually assaulting her. She also brought to court her rape case, but it was dropped. Cosby's lawyer had constantly sought to prevent the publication of the court documents, but the transcipts were released Monday on the website of the public court, which keeps the records.
CNN reported that during the trial, Constand's lawyer, Attorney Dolores Troiani, quizzed Cosby: "When you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?"
Cosby responded with a "yes."
"Did you ever give any of those young women the quaaludes without their knowledge?" the attorney's succeeding question read. Cosby was stopped from answering at that point when his lawyer objected.
Cosby then cleared up an earlier statement saying that he had misinterpreted the question. He had stated that he gave quaaludes to other people, saying a little later, "I misunderstood. Woman ... not women."
Cosby's recollection of a Las Vegas incident in the 1970s was included in the documents.
"She meets me backstage. I give her quaaludes. We then have sex," he pronounced.
Around 30 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault in the past decades, but he has somehow escaped conviction.
This turn out of events surely is an ironic scenario since Cosby was famous for his role as family man in the popular sitcom, "The Cosby Show."
Quaaludes is the trademark name for a muscle relaxant weich has a sedating effect when taken in. It's the drug widely abused for recreational use in the 1970s.
