The Associated Press went to court to have a 2005 deposition by Bill Cosby made public. Cosby's lawyers battled to stop the release of the legal documents on grounds it would 'embarrass' Cosby.

A judge unsealed those documents yesterday, now we know why his lawyers didn't want them out there.

During the deposition, Bill admitted that he gave Quaaludes to at least one woman because he wanted to sleep with her.

In the documents, Cosby, 77, testifies under oath in a lawsuit filed by a former Temple University employee. He testified that he gave her three doses of Benadryl.

That sexual abuse case settled for undisclosed terms in 2006. AP says Cosby's lawyers didn't return calls from them today.

Cosby has been accused by more than two dozen women of sexual misconduct, including allegations by many that he drugged and raped them in incidents dating back more than four decades. Cosby, 77, has never been criminally charged, and most of the accusations are barred by statutes of limitations.

Cosby resigned in December from the board of trustees at Temple, where he was the popular face of the Philadelphia school in advertisements, fundraising campaigns and commencement speeches.

 

Janice Baker Kinney (C) Autumn Burns (L) and Marcella Tate three alleged sexual assault victims of comedian Bill Cosby during a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred April 23, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. Cosby has been accused of sexual assault by over 30 women. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Janice Baker Kinney (C) Autumn Burns (L) and Marcella Tate three alleged sexual assault victims of comedian Bill Cosby during a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred April 23, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. Cosby has been accused of sexual assault by over 30 women. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
loading...

Judd Apatow, the Hollywood producer who has been relentless in his pursuit to get to the truth of the Cosby controversy, believing he was guilty issued a statement to Esquire magazine's web site. It read:

''It is only new to people who didn’t believe an enormous amount of women who stated clearly that he drugged them. We shouldn’t need Bill Cosby to admit it to believe forty people who were victimized by him. I am sure there are many victims who have not come forward. Maybe now more people in show business and all around our country will stand up and tell the people he attacked that we support you and believe you. I also hope Camille Cosby and Phylicia Rashad will now stand with the victims and not with their attacker.''

 

The documents unsealed by a federal judge yesterday involve the case of Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who said Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her. The Associated Press reports that in these court transcripts, Cosby admits obtaining seven prescriptions for quaaludes and says he gave them to other people. That was followed up by this questioning by Constand's lawyer:

Question: Who are the people that you gave the quaaludes to?

Cosby's lawyer interrupts and asks to limit the questioning to a certain group of accusers referred to in the documents as the Jane Does.

Q. 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?

Answer: Yes.

Q. Did you ever give any of those young women the quaaludes without their knowledge?

More From 98.7 WFGR