Yet another alleged victim is stepping forward to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault.
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Cindra Ladd, a former entertainment executive, claims that the comedian allegedly drugged and raped her.
In a recently published essay, Cindra accused Bill of allegedly sexually assaulting her in New York City back in 1969:
“I met Bill Cosby while working in New York for the late film producer Ray Stark,. I was a 21-year-old single woman in the world’s most exciting city. He was a 32-year-old internationally known comedian and television star, one of the most likable and popular entertainers in the business. He asked for my number and I gave it to him… He was married to his current wife [Camille Cosby] and he acted like a perfect gentleman.”
However, one night Bill allegedly offered to give her a pill that he promised would help with a headache:
“I asked a couple of times what it was. Each time he reassured me, asking, ‘Don’t you trust me?’ Of course I did. This was Bill Cosby.”
While her memory of that night is gone, she does remember waking up the next morning:
“What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friend’s apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual. It was obvious to me that he had had sex with me. I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed.”
Cindra claims that she hastily left the apartment, and wept on the way home. In the end, she decided to not come forward to report the crime until now:
“It never occurred to me to go to the police. It was a different time and ‘date rape’ was a concept that didn’t exist…. So why speak out at all and why now? The simple answer is that it’s the right thing to do… The truth deserves to be known. As I write this, more than 20 women have come forward, many with stories that are remarkably similar to mine.”
No word yet from Bill’s legal team about this recent accusation.