While selections of Bill Cosby’s 2005 deposition were made public earlier this month, more of his comments were revealed late Saturday night in a New York Times report. The paper obtained the complete deposition, in which the comedian explains how he seduced women and that he even managed to keep it a secret from his wife of 50 years.

Cosby was given a deposition in the case of Andrea Constand, a woman who was working at Temple University when she claimed that Cosby drugged and molested her. She had filed a lawsuit against Cosby and, if it had gone to trial, 13 other women were ready to testify with similar stories. However, the case was settled before it went to trial.

The former Cosby Show star and his attorneys had spent a decade keeping the deposition secret and a confidentiality clause was included in the settlement. However, Constand’s lawyer asked the court to lift that on the 62-page memorandum. Amazingly, the Times claims that Cosby’s 1,000-page deposition itself was always publicly available on a court reporting service.

After the confidentiality clause was lifted on the memorandum, the Associated Press published part of it on July 6, including the portion where Cosby does admit to acquiring Quaaludes to give to women for sex. In the rest of the deposition, Cosby goes into detail on his relationship with Constand and brings up other examples of seducing young women.

When it comes to Constand specifically, Cosby explained how the relationship developed over years during the early 2000’s. He recalled being angry that she was not following his advice to the letter, referring to himself in the third person. He also described an incident when they were on his back porch in Philadelphia when they came close to kissing. In another instance, they had a “sexual moment,” but did not have intercourse. However, after it, she had “a glow,” he said.

This lead to him describing his own thoughts on sex. He described the act of sexual intercourse as “something that I feel the woman will succumb to more of a romance and more of a feeling, not love, but it’s deeper than a playful situation.” With Constand, who he said he did not love, they were “playing sex.”

Cosby insisted that the only drug he gave Constand was Benedryl, but Constand’s lawyer said that her client thought it was more powerful.

One of the other incidents that Cosby described involved a 19-year-old model named Beth Ferrier during the 1980s. He admitted that he only asked Ferrier about her late father, who died of cancer, because he wanted to have sexual contact with her.

Despite this, Cosby said he was still a good person who could be trusted. “I am a man, the only way you will hear about who I had sex with is from the person I had it with,” he said.

Cosby also discussed how he hid his behavior from Camille, his wife since 1964. He did admit to having affairs in 1997 and publicly, the couple said that they put their marital struggles behind them. If he had given Constand money, Cosby said that Camille would somehow know that it was for Constand’s education, not in exchange for sex.

“My wife would not know it was because Andrea and I had had sex and that Andrea was now very, very upset and that she decided that she would like to go to school,” Cosby said.

Since last fall, over 40 women have come forward to claim that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them. While Cosby has never been convicted and the statute of limitations has expired in many of the cases, a handful of women are suing Cosby for defamation. The comedian’s attorneys have denied every allegation.

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