no one was hurt and a tour guideposted this on facebook. >> got to watch out for those hippos. that does it for us tonight. see you at 11 p.m. eastern. cosby show a legend under fire starts now. i'm don lemon. this is our cnn special, "bill cosby, a legend under fire." generations of americans xwru up -- grew up with bill cosby. he wasn't just bill cosby, he was huxtable. how do you go from the most respected and loved people of the country to this? today, another woman came forward and filed a police report accusing him of sexual assault. also ahead tonight though, i talk to a group of women who accuse cosby of assaulting them. and we hear from model beverly

johnson who accuses cosby of drugging her at a meeting back her home. let's begin with jeanne casarez. >> reporter: the fall of grace of living american legend 50 years in the making. cosby's alleged questionable behavior largely unheard about for decades. now it follows cosby wherever he goes. >> bill cosby is a rapist! >> reporter: protesters standing strong outside of a theater last week while bill cosby does stand-up act inside during his comedian tour, even amid major controversy. during the performance, a heckler is ejected after yelling. >> no, no, stop. stop it. >> reporter: but the fans continue to cheer cosby. tina fey and amy poehler shocked at the weekend's awards. >> and sleeping beauty thought

she was getting coffee with bill cosby. >> i put the pills in the people. the people did not want the pills in them. >> reporter: these accusations started off, believe it or not, in a theater, too. back in october 16, comedian hanibal said something that goes viral. >> i can talk down on you because i have a successful sitcom. >> reporter: less than a month later, bill cosby's twitter page asks fans to meme cosby. the results overwhelmingly negative and quickly taken down. that begins a flood of allegations from women who say they were sexually assaulted by cosby. many claimed they were drugged. super model beverly johnson said it happened about 30 years ago when she went to the star's home to audition for the cosby show. >> he was very insistent that i try this cappuccino that would be the best coffee that i would ever have.

it was very powerful. it came on very quickly. the room started to spin. at that point, i knew he had drugged me. >> reporter: johnson doesn't believe she was sexually assaulted. while cnn and cosby's lawyer have corresponded, his attorneys have not publicly commented on this allegation but with regard to the other reports, they have called them decade old discredited allegations against mr. cosby. the fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. >> and the privilege. >> reporter: one of the most famous women in bill cosby's life is coming to his aid. >> he is a genius. he's generous. he's kind. he's inclusive. >> reporter: actress felicia rashad said she never saw or heard about elicit behavior by her tv husband. >> it's ridiculous. look at you. >> reporter: rashad sat down

with abc news after an interview with showbiz 411. >> you were quoted online as saying, forget those women. >> that's not what i said. this is about the obliteration of a legacy. >> if mr. cosby's legacy is destroyed, he has no one to blame but himself. >> reporter: three new alleged victims come forward with famed attorney gloria allred. >> he built my trust by pretending to be a friend and drugged and raped me. >> reporter: in the 1980s, lynn neil was in her 20s and a therapist at a health club in las vegas. cosby befriended her there and said, just drink it. so i did. i was having problems walking. i felt disoriented and confused. i didn't understand what was happening to me. i never felt that way before. he told me to calm down, he wasn't going to hurt me and started having sex with me. >> reporter: casey was an employment at the william morris talent agency and worked as

assistant to cosby's personal appearance agent. in 1996, said she took a more personal interest in her career before the camera. something she had never considered. he had her read a scene that ended with a kiss. >> i did not want to participate. he was insistent, with him pressing his body against mine and coming in for the kiss. he told me i needed to relax and offered me a large white pill. next, i remember waking up in a bed with mr. cosby naked beneath his open robe. >> reporter: linda kirkpatrick had won a seat to see cosby's show at the las vegas hilton in 1981. by beats him at tennis that afternoon. >> my next recollection was back in the dressing room alone with cosby. i was lying down, cosby was on top of me kissing me forcefully.

i knew something was terribly, terribly wrong with whatever i had consumed in the drink that he gave me. >> reporter: and speaking out for the first time, barbara beauman and joan tarshas who said in 1969, after accepting drinks at his hotel, woke up in cosby's bed. ironically, cosby released a comedy album that same year entitled "it's true, it's true," joking about doctoring drinks. >> well, there's this girl, crazy mary. you put something in her drink, she go ah. >> reporter: even after former temple university employee went to police saying cosby drugged and molested her in 2004, the local district attorney at the time bruce castor did not bring charges. years later, castor explains his decision, waiting a year to go to authorities, heard her case against cosby. >> because of the delay, i couldn't check her blood to see

if there any metabolites of the drug so it made the case difficult. >> reporter: in 2005, cosby spoke out about the allegations for the first time. telling the national inquirer, i am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status. soon after, she responds, alleging battery, assault, and defamation of her character. they settle out of court for an undisclosed sum the following year and in 2005, tamara green with a similar story. cnn has a sworn deposition part of the civil suit brought by former temple employee andrea constan. in this deposition, cosby says the inquirer suppressed another woman's story at his request. cosby was asked, what is your understanding of the agreement that you had with the national enquirer concerning your exclusive interview? i would give them an exclusive

story, my words. what would they give you in return? they would not print the story, print best story. accuser beth harier said her story was dropped from publication in the magazine after cosby issued his one and only interview on the constant and tamara green accusations. while not commenting on ferrier's story, american media which publishes the national enquirer tells cnn the national enquirer, more than any other publication was unflinching in our aggressive coverage of allegations against mr. cosby beginning in 2000 when everyone else avoided the story. in fall 2014, accusers continue to come forward. some like janice dickinson sharing graphic details. >> i remember more specifically waking up and my pajama bottoms were off and my top was open. >> cosby ease attorneys deny many of the allegations and call

dickinson a liar. and also, the district attorney's office made a decision not to file criminal charges against cosby stemming from an accuser's allegation of childhood sexual abuse in 1974. the alleged victim judith hough filed a civil suit in california set for a hearing in january. in court filings, cosby calls those claims absolutely false. accusing the woman of extortion. tamara green also filed in a massachusetts federal court claiming defamation. and other accusers joined that suit. last month, bill cosby decided to leave the board of trustees of his beloved alma mater temple university. chairman and a long time cosby friend spoke out. >> i think in today's world, there's a demand to make judgments quickly. sometimes without all the facts. >> reporter: from johnson's perspective, the facts are clear. >> i knew that i had been

drugged and i knew i had been drugged by bill cosby. >> reporter: and that has many saying it is past time for cosby himself to fully address this scandal. jean casarez, cnn, new york. >> thank you. we asked bill cosby's attorney for a comment. we did not get a response. bill cosby has open invitation to come on cnn and tell his side of the story. even more women are coming forward. up next, i speak with attorney gloria allred and three clients who accuse the comic legend of sexual assault. ♪you better pledge ♪ your allegiance♪ ♪you're not the only one ♪listen up forefathers ♪let them have some fun ♪some fun ♪some fun.

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local reports say that she filed an official complaint with the los angeles police department claiming she passed out after cosby gave her a drink and we should warn you that this next part is really graphic. the report says that her reporter claims chloe goines woke up and she was naked in bed next to him. cosby was licking her toes while touching himself. and meanwhile, there are more women coming forward alleging they were assaulted by the comic legend. i'm joined now by attorney gloria allred, representing three women claiming abuse. good evening to all of you. >> good evening, don. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> beth, you started out in a consensual relationship with bill cosby while he was married but broke it off. after you split, he invited you to a concert. he gave you a coffee and that's the last memory you had. what happened? >> in 1996, he came to denver,

colorado, to do a show and in fact, had called off the relationship because of his, he had become incredibly aggressive with me and was constantly wanting to know where i was. wanting to know everything about me. and so i finally agreed to meet with him, since i am from denver, colorado, and that's where he would come often to do his shows. i agreed to come to a now defunct show there. actually drove myself there, don. myself. because i wanted to be able to come and go if i needed to. and unfortunately, that's the evening that he offered me a coffee and we were going to be having supper before the show. and never made supper. never made anything. >> you said after i drank it, i felt dizzy and lost consciousness and the next thing

i knew, hours passed and i woke up in the back of my car alone. >> all alone in the back of my bmw, my car. the show was obviously done. it was dark. there was no one around. and my clothes were off. i was sick to my stomach. i was -- i felt like something horrible had happened to me and you have to understand, at that time, no one was talking about being drugged and drugging. i didn't think anything would have happened having a cappuccino which he often prepared for me. so to have that happen, you're caught off guard, and suddenly, you're left alone and you're questioning yourself again. as a woman. what did i do wrong? what was that about? and to me, them having to climb out of the car and try to, because i was too ill to even drive.

so then, to have to crawl upstairs and try to find the security guards or two security guards who were obviously aware of where i was because they actually drove my car with me home in the back of my car and then another gentleman followed. >> and they helped you home. >> they did help me home. >> this is all very emotional to all of you. and shalan, i want to go to you. you were a 17-year-old aspiring model working in a hotel. >> yes, i was 17. i was 17 years old. about ten days before my 18th birthday. >> and he was going to help you with an aspiring modelling career and he ended up giving you cold medicine? and then what happened? >> he said it was an anti-histamine. he gave it to me and i took it with a shot of amaretto. he started rubbing on me.

someone came in and took some pictures of myself and someone else came in and said they had like a stress therapist and he had me go, uh-huh. after they left, he asked me, are you okay, are you okay? i kept saying, yeah, but i was kind of groggy. he gave me something else to drink. and escorted me down the hallway and i believe that's the same room that lisa talks about because it was in the las vegas hilton at the elvis presley suite. >> and that's where you believe -- >> i woke up 13 to 16 hours later. i remember him pinching my breast. pinching my breast, grunting, grunting, there was a grunt like a wild pig.

but i could not move. i couldn't respond. i remember feeling something warm hit the side of my leg and when i woke up, i just had the hilton hotel room with no clothes but before that, i had on clothes. >> he offered you money, gave you $1500 to buy you something nice? >> he had it on the table already. >> so i want to go to helen now. you say that bill cosby followed you and some friends around while you were at celebrity tennis tournament back in 1973 and he tracked you down at a restaurant and i believe you said you tried to avoid him. you changed your reservations to several different restaurants but he caught up with you. >> right. we did. we went into different bars and different restaurants. we saw him all day saturday.

we thought it was more like stalking us and we kind of laughed but we felt very safe because it was daytime. but then at night when we decided to go to dinner, it was three of us. we never left each other's side at all. but we went in and out of restaurants and bars and finally found us in one restaurant and he came up behind me and rubbed his body against my back and then he put his right hand over my shoulder and grabbed a hold of my right breast. i think in those days, it was called groping in 1973. today, it's called sexual battery. it was at the clint eastwood celebrity -- but absolutely. i looked at him and said, what do you think you're doing? why do you think you have the right to do that to me and he just looked at all three of us and said, well, have a nice dinner. and he walked out. >> i have to ask gloria this. gloria, what do you want to see

happen now? you were asking that he, what, waive his rights, the statute of limitations so these women can have their day in court? >> exactly. i asked him to agree not to assert the defense of statute of limitations, in other words, if they sued him, it would be time-barred and unless he agreed, of course, those cases would be dismissed. there would be no point in filing them in the first place. i have been in touch with attorneys. he has not accepted my offer which he could have but he has not. he would apparently like to fight this out in the public of public opinion. except of course, in the lawsuits which have been filed against him, where he will have to be in court. but that's what he wants to do. he's going to perform this in denver. i'm too -- going to be there, inviting denver to come and meet me at the crawford hotel at 2:00.

they have to rsvp in advance but then we'll talk about bill cosby and what the allegations are against him, what his reaction has been and the impact on the alleged victims because women matter and rape is not a joke. we didn't find his last joke in canada to be funny. so we're going to protest, also outside of the booul theater in denver at 5:00 following our teach-in speak-out. >> chelan, why are you crying? >> because it's not a joke. i'm so angry. i'm angry at felicia rashad for saying we're liars. i'm taking a stand for what he did to all of us. it changed my whole life. i got a piece of it back and the only thing i have left is to confront him. and i would love to see him in a court of law. i want to see you in the court

of law and see you eye to eye. i want him to be the man he was when he took away my youth, and the woman i am now and ready to take him on. >> chelan, chelan, beth, kelyn, gloria, thank you. sorry about the delay in the cross talk. but thank you so much. >> god bless you. >> felicia rashad did not say the women were lying but said the legacy is what matters and not the women, essentially. so i just want to say, women do matter, we care about first the victims. >> thank you very much, all of you. thank you. next, beverly johnson and what she said bill cosby allegedly did to her back in the '80s. and five women accuse bill cosby of assault. they meet. >> it was very powerful. it came on quickly. i had been drugged. i was just looking at him and i just asked him the question that you are a mess, aren't you?

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welcome back. i'm don lemon. this is our cnn special the cosby show a legend under fire. again and again women come forward telling the same shocking stories about bill cosby and the best known is beverly johnson. the first african-american model to appear on the cover of american vogue in 1974. she told her story to cnn's kyra

phillips and claimed she was drugged but avoided sexual assault. she joins me now. you got an interview but because of the high profile, there's been so much attention. what did she tell you? >> it was a game changer when she talked. i've known beverly for a number of years for full disclosure. we're involved with the global down syndrome group and when she told me she decided to go with "vanity fair" and tell this story, and i said, do me a favor. do the first live interview on cnn and it was explosive and added a different level of credibility to this story. we decided to go deeper in her background, her life and allegations. this is just a portion of that special that we did. >> beverly! >> reporter: beauty is a fickle business and models have just a short time at the top. >> i didn't know what i was

going to do after modelling, which was supposed to have been a four or five year career. so i just decided to try everything. >> reporter: for beverly johnson, auditioning for the highly rated cosby show could open up possibilities. >> there wasn't a bigger figure in entertainment, in the entertainment industry than bill cosby. >> reporter: but she didn't get a role. the audition ended with a traumatic event. >> i knew that i had been drugged and i knew i had been drugged by bill cosby. >> reporter: it was a secret she kept for decades fearing repercussions. >> there is this powerful man in the industry that i would like to be a part of and i didn't think i had a chance of winning. >> reporter: but that would change as more than a dozen women went public this fall, giving johnson the courage to come forward. tell me about that moment when you said, all right.

i'm going to do it. i am going to let the secret be revealed. >> when all of this happened, look at the women coming forward and how brave they are, i had to speak up. i just had to. but i vacillated. i'm going to do it, i'm not going to do it. i'm going to do it, i'm not going to do it. i realized, what a hypocrite i would be if i didn't say something. >> reporter: so she wrote a first person account for vanity fair. bill cosby drugged me. for a long time, i thought it was something that only happened to me, and that i was somehow responsible. so i kept my secret to myself, believing this truth needed to remain in the darkness. johnson also spoke at length on cnn's new day. >> he needed to know that as women, we weren't just going to

stand by and let him get away with what he thought he was going to get away with. >> reporter: she recounted cosby inviting her to his manhattan brown stone for an audition. the role of a patient of the lovable obstetrician dr. cliff huxtable. >> my office. >> what do you do? >> i'm a doctor for women. >> reporter: she said before they rehearsed, cosby insisted she drink a cappuccino from his fancy espresso machine. >> it was very powerful. it came on very quickly. the room started to spin. my speech was slurred. and he placed his hands on my waist. at that point, i knew he had drugged me. and i was just looking at him and i just asked him the question that you are an mf, aren't you? >> reporter: she said it went no further.

but does say a seething bill cosby dragged her to the street and sent her home in a cab. as i thought of going public, the voice kept whispering, black men have enough enemies already. they certainly don't need me, fanning the flames. >> it was very difficult for me to come to the point where i wanted to speak out. >> reporter: what's the one thing you'll always remember from that moment when you say he drugged you? what's the one thing you'll never forget? >> i think it would be someone taking your power, because you're powerless. i don't want to see anything happen to bill cosby. what i want to see happen is that women come out and speak their truth. >> very powerful. very powerful. we have not gotten a public response from bill cosby's attorneys even though cnn lawyers have been in communication with him.

kyra, powerful story. some of the women i interviewed said the same story, they felt they were free now to be able to come forward and tell their truths. >> yes, speak their truth. isn't that powerful? we mentioned that we haven't heard from bill cosby directly. he has declined numerous requests to come on this show, other shows to speak to these charges. it seems that the strategy with his team is spending time and money trying to discredit the accusers and smearing the media, including cnn and actually when we were, you know, working on this beverly johnson special, we received a letter from cosby's attorney attacking our reporting, demanding we speak to two individuals he said would defend bill cosby against beverly johnson's accusation and of course, i did that. i spoke to them. neither had any specific knowledge about beverly johnson's claims nor knew her at the time of the alleged incident when it occurred and what's more, they both had criminal

pasts, these two men. one spent time in prison in connection with a robbery of former client and one threatened to choke beverly johnson to death, which led us to question their credibility and that's why we didn't feel like they belonged in our special. >> beyond that. let's talk about -- you and i work together and we have the same pop references. beverly johnson and bill cosby were part of our youth. it's unbelievable to see this going on. >> you and i have talked so much about breaking barriers and our heroes in life and how important diversity is. and just thinking back at that quote when beverly said, i was afraid to come out even now because there's a powerful black man and this is -- >> the last thing he needed. >> right. my gosh, it's like we need to come so much further in this. >> we've gone far but --

but we've got a long way to go. >> we've got a long way to go. for women's rights and that's what beverly is hoping to do is really be a game changer where women feel more comfortable to speak their truth. >> great to see you. thank you, kyra. thank you very much. we've got a lot more to come. thank you, next, five women who come face to face to tell their stories. what they allege he did to them and how they say it changed their lives. >> we've suffered hundreds collectively, hundreds of years of horrible, intestinal, emotional strife because of what this man put all of us through and the hundreds that haven't come forward. month. for you data every so why does your carrier take back what you don't use? it's your data. now at t-mobile, all your unused data rolls forward to the next month. and we'll even get you started with 10gb of free 4g lte data.

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and also victoria valentino. we didn't put the monitors on, right, allison? i expected you had the reaction you did when we put the pictures of him up, and that was? >> revulsion. really. >> you never try to see bill cosby's pictures. >> i just shut down my peripheral vision. >> you can't look at him, can you, barbara? >> we were comparing which pictures sparks that scratchy awful feeling. >> which one does? >> for me? that one. >> why? >> because that was the face that i saw and that was the age. >> i saw the young one over there. >> me, too. >> what's going on? >> me? >> i can't look at him. 44 years. when his picture went across the screen, in a magazine or

newspaper or i heard his name mentioned, i had to walk away, change the channel. >> i couldn't watch the cosby show. i never watched it. >> it makes my stomach twist. it makes my sick to my stomach to look at him. he's pretty much probably the world's greatest actor because he fooled a lot of people. fooled a lot of people. >> in the latest round of accusations, barbara, on november 13th, you published a piece in "the washington post." are you surprised at the basic tidal wave that, i mean, more than a dozen women followed you? >> yeah. more. and more to come. >> you think so? >> oh, yes. >> i want to ask, what makes you think there are other women? >> after i came out, i started getting all of these private messages from people on facebook coming out to me, p.j. was one of them. >> because you both shared the

playboy bunny connection? >> yes. >> did you ever tell hugh hefner? >> no. huh-uh. >> i told my boss, my immediate boss. her reply, do you realize this is hefner's best friend? nobody's going to believe you. shut your mouth. that's what i was told by corporate. to keep my mouth closed. >> and so many of you did for quite a long time. allison and i want to ask you guys something. a show of hands. put your hands up if this is a true story. do you mind if i start? >> go ahead. >> how many were lured by the promise of work, that it would help your career? >> three of you said it would help your career. >> well, he didn't promise to help my career but my girlfriend, one of the original chocolate bunnies introduced me because my son had just died and

i was beginning to run out of money and i'm an actor and she said, maybe he can get you a job. he played the playboy club circuit, so she set up an appointment with him on his trailer on the lot. and she said, take a picture of your little boy. you know. and she was actually his godmother. >> how many of you were drugged? allegedly. all of you. and that seems to have been from the women we've spoken to, his m.o. there are allegations that he would drug women. >> yeah. >> who of you remembers being drugged? tell me. >> well, i remember both times. i remember having one bloody mary topped with beer, as i've said, call it a red eye. and i woke up i don't know how long later with him taking off my clothes and you don't pass out from one small drink. >> how many of you, you said you can't look at him.

you don't watch the cosby show. is it something you think about every day? >> i tell you what it is though, don. it's like a subliminal soundtrack. i don't think about my son dying 44 years ago every day but it's always there understood beneath the surface. >> hugh hefner issued a statement last month reading bill cosby has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. i would never tolerate this kind of behavior, regardless of who was involved. when we come back, more with the women who are accusing bill cosby. music: melodic, calm music. hi this is conor. sorry i missed you. i'm either away from my desk or on another call... ... please leave a message and i'll get back to you... ... just as soon as i'm available. thank you for your patience at this busy time. join us for stargazing with discovery at sea. enjoy cruises from four ninety-nine during our 50th anniversary sale.

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welcome back to the special here, and it is "the cosby show: a legend under fire" and we have five women speaking out against bill cosby and what they say he did to them. and p.j., after all of this time, you say that there is one case that made you want to come forward now. >> when i i heard about this young girl, a 15-year-old girl being drugged and raped by him in heffner's mansion, all bets were off for me. that is a child. that was a little girl. as far as i'm concerned, i'm done. >> through his attorney, bill cosby refutes that story, and he says that she is trying to extort money from him. >> he refutes every single story that hassle come out, and it is not a surprise to any one of us here. >> and how many of you with a show of hands have tried to get money out of bill cosby?

none of you. and how many of you would take money from bill cosby? >> interesting. >> people claim they are in it for money and they have never tried to get it from him. >> well, he gave me $20 to call me a cab and gave me $20 for the cab. >> to me, it would be a form of contempt from him. >> and this is not about sex but power. >> yes, he is a predator. he goes after women, and he is not a man. if you have to drug a woman to have sex with her, that is not even a man. he is a coward. he is a despicable coward. >> he is a serial rapist. >> no question. >> he has the same m.o. with all of us. he identifies a vulnerable victim, and then gets them alone and lures them into a place where sometimes people are in

proximity, and he then drugs them. he does his thing with them. and then sometimes he waits for them to wake up so that he can heap yet more contempt. >> he still has supporters. >> that is a good point, don, because the man could not be acting alone. and what i mean by that is that the man has power and wealth and fame and he has many people in impenetrable circles of people who are protecting him that the has created this hermetically sealed bubble of protection. >> what about his wife? what do you -- >> well, they settled out of court when they settled out of court, she must have known something was going on. >> you mean the 2005 case, and there were 13 jane does, and you were one of them. >> yes.

>> you were thinking that alone she must have known something? >> and i would think that the man being as ill as i believe he is, i feel sorry for her. i don't know why she stayed in the marriage, unless she was forced to out of fear. >> what do you all want to see happen to him now? >> i want his emmys taken away from him. >> you want his awards taken away from him? >> absolutely. he is a predator. >> what i want happening to him is happening. >> what is that? >> for him to lose face with the public. i have said that i have lost my anger towards the man and the resentment towards the man, but i wonder if it is really because of what is happening to him now, because this is what i dreamt. i dreamt of for years. >> and you call it karma. >> they call it karma. >> and we are being restored. lives are being restored. >> we are being validated. and for the first time we are being validated now.

>> we have the power now. >> that's right. >> and rape is about power. there is another thing, it is not just that he has betrayed us. he has betrayed everyone -- >> every person of color, the breakthrough that he supposedly made. when he -- when what happened to me happened, he was in "i spy" and nobody believed he he was a spy, but in the "cosby show" everybody thinks that he is -- >> he is dr. huxtable. >> he is basically a fake, a pretender, and behind that mask is a sociopath. >> camille cosby responded last month to the allegations against her husband. and the statement read in part, there is no vetting against my husband's accusers before stories are aired. an accusation is published and immediately goes viral. none of us wants to be in the position of attacking a victim, but the question should be asked, who is the victim? well, the accusations against

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about the alleged sexual abuse if cosby should speak out. do you think he should say something, yes, no, you don't care? >> i don't care. as long as it's long and painful. i think he never cared what happened to us. >> we suffered collectively hundreds of years of horrible intestinal, emotional strife because of what this man put all of us through, and the hundreds that have not come forward yet, i want him to suffer, suffer like all of us have all of these years. you can ask any of these women, how are your relationships? how were your marriages? how were your jobs? how were your psyches? >> how were your dreams? >> i'm having nightmares. i've been waking up at 3:00,

4:00 in the morning having nightmares, thinking bad things are going to happen. >> he has said through the attorney that none of this has happened and it is implausible. >> so we're all lirs. >> look, he took advantage of my grief over my little boy drowning to get to my girlfriend, my roommate, because he had a thing for her. >> he is a predator. >> he drugged us both. >> and you mentioned your son, and he lost his son, and did you think about him? >> believe me, when i heard that, i felt terrible for his wife, and felt terrible for his child who was an adult, but i have to tell you now i went, karma. >> i did, too. >> i wondered every minute did he ever think of what it meant for me, and what it meant for me to lose my only child and for him to do that for me within four months of my child

drowning, my 6-year-old biracial child? >> nancy grace did something interesting. she said, are all of these women lying, and one person telling the truth? or is one person lying and all of these women are telling the truth? >> interesting. >> i think it is remarkable that first of all, we are very, very grateful to be here, and to be heard and to be watching the -- the masses and finally listening. >> for me, i escaped him. i am comfortably retired with eight grandchildren and my life is as happy as anyone's life could be, but this was important. there is a lot of things to be said about power and the abuse of it. distrust and betrayal. i didn't need to do this for any reason whatsoever, except to support and encourage others.

>> we thank you all for your voice and for sharing your personal story with us. we wish you all the best of luck. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. okay, everyone, you're watching cnn. >> we would like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. coming up, the fbi says a lone wolf was planning to plant pipe bombs at the u.s. capitol. we'll tell you what the suspect's family is now saying. in france, investigators are digging into the lives of the "charlie hebdo" murder suspects. and reaction from around the world about the magazine's latest controversial cover. plus, climbers using their bare hands to make it to the top of a 3,000 foot wall. we begin with new developments in terror plots on