hillary clinton, to get his thoughts on all of them. you'll want to hear that. that is tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. that does it for us this hour. the cnn special report "no laughing matter, inside the cosby allegations" starts now. >> the following is a cnn special report. ♪ >> last fall, the legendary bill cosby was restaking his claim as an a-list super star at the age of 77. >> bill cosby was really looking a career rejuvenation. >> 30 years after his nbc blockbuster, the network was cooking up another cosby sitcom. netflix had planned to stream a comedy special and a 500-page biography was the "new york times" best seller. >> then it hits.

>> an avalanche of sexual assault allegations. >> he offered me a large white pill. >> last thing i remembered i had blacked out and cosby was mounting me. >> he drugged and raped me. >> you are such a perverted creep. >> and now, shocking newly released court documents show cosby talking about a powerful sedative. in a deposition, the plaintiff's lawyer asked when you got the quaaludes was it in your mind you were going to use these quaaludes for young women wanted to have sex. cosby responds, yes. >> do you see this as the smoking gun missing in these allegations? >> bill cosby has not been charged with any crimes. he had gone from one of america's most revered entertainers to one of the most reviled. >> even las vegas cancelled his show. when you are too sleazy for vegas -- >> no laughing matter, inside

the cosby allegations. ♪ denver, colorado, it's a thousand miles from los angeles. 2,000 miles from new york city. but denver is where barbara bowman decided she could grow up to be an actress. >> i was a go getter. i was adventurer. i wanted this career. i had a passion to do this. >> have a good run. >> by 16, she was starring in local commercials. >> come up to colorado's favorite ski resort. we guarantee you'll notice the difference. >> and by 17, she was ready to audition for a superstar, bill cosby. >> he was america's favorite dad. he was everyone's father figure they watched on tv every week. >> cosby was friends with bowman's talent agent joe farrell. >> tell me about your agent.

can you describe her? >> >> well, she was known in town as a barracuda. >> jo farrell herself told the loek i can kwan nis club said if being a bare cuba means i work very hard, protect my people and being a good businesswomen i accept it. her talent agency js images had a big reputation and barbara bowman had what it took to be a star. >> she would come in and lay down the law. you think this is tough wait until you get to the next level. think i'm tough, get used it to now in bowman shot at the next level she says came in 1985. bill cosby was coming to denver and her agent said he was scouting for potential stars. >> so when he came in to town and she selected me, you know, it was a big deal. >> a big deal because cosby was

a quintessential success story, rising from the projects of philadelphia to the height of hollywood. >> you don't get larger, more successful than bill cosby unless you are barack obama. >> bob huber covers cosby for "philadelphia" magazine spl he was the first leading black man on a network back in the mid-'60s. ♪ >> cosby's performance in "i spy" won him three consecutive emmys, but that was nothing compared to what came next. ♪ by 1985, he had become a television juggernaut with "the cosby show." >> what you need to do now is go to the next level if you want justine back. >> what's that? >> begging. [ laughter ] >> for eight seasons, on nbc, he starred as the lovable dr. cliff huxtable, patriarch of an upper middle class family that defied

racial stereotypes, revived the sitcom drama and generated mega bucks in syndication. >> a huge star not only in the african-american world but also for white middle-class americans, as well. >> barbara bowman says the plan was to audition for the superstar at the turn of the century nightclub. she was nervous, excited, groomed and ready to meet bill cosby. it was a moment that would change her life. when we come back -- >> at one point i went like this and started to move his hands away and he said, no, you can't do that. you need to relax. ♪ how's it progressing with the prisoner? he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir.

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[ cheers and applause ] >> bill cosby had earned millions of fans. hundreds of millions of dollars and the admiration of many, including colleagues like phylicia rashad. >> he's a genius. he's generous. he's kind. he's inclusive. >> reporter: in 1985, with cosby's popularity soaring, barbara bowman says she was tapped by her agent to audition for him at a denver nightclub. she recalled he asked about her childhood. >> zoomed in on the fact i was a vulnerable kid, no father figure in my life and wanted to take on that role and it was an honor to be there and i wanted him to care about me, like a father would care about a daughter. >> then she says it was show

time. to see how well this budding actress could perform. >> he wanted me to do an acting improv exercise where i was intoxicated. so he explained to me that it was going to be a little uncomfortable if we are really authentic in our acting we have to tap in and let my guard down and trust him. he had me close my eyes and proceed to act drunk. he's behind me and he's stroking my hair and stroking my neck, and you know kind of rubbing my shoulders and getting me to relax. meanwhile, his hands are moving down on to my breasts and at one point i went like this and started to move his hands away and he said, no, you can't do that. you need to relax. >> for a 17-year-old, she says it was confusing. >> i wanted to trust him.

i really, really wanted to trust him. >> bowman's agent, jo farrell is now retired. she declines to comment to cnn but in 2006 she told the denver post i don't know the truth of it. it is mind boggling, i don't set up interviews in bars and it makes me sad because my reputation has always been golden in this city. i have never seen cosby to be anything but a gentleman. that's what bowman said she wanted to believe, too. >> he was really going to groom me and mentor me and he had a lot that he did offer me. >> bowman said that cosby soon invited her to see some of his shows. there was seattle and then reno. there he pressured her to perform a scene in his hotel room. >> he turned out the lights and he made me close my eyes and

went through an exercise. it was sexual. it was sexual. >> he had his pants off? >> yes. >> and were you -- >> were down, at least. >> had his pants down and he forced your hand on him? >> yes. >> and were you drugged? >> i don't know. but i know that i was frigid and frozen with fear and just went in to a zone. and mechanically went through the motions. i felt so violated and i felt like disgusted. i couldn't tell anybody. i felt dirty. >> why was it not an option to tell anyone about what happened? >> i was full of shame and fear. and disgust. it was just too far fetched for anyone to believe. >> how were you able to get past

that to see him again? >> a coping mechanism, survival mode kicked in. it was -- i was so shocked that i wanted to just believe it didn't happen. >> that was way back when nobody sued anybody. >> after working as a model for js images, diane mcfarland knew how the acting business could be. >> i think there was a lot of confusion with these girls that maybe everybody has to do a little something. so it was terrifying. you wouldn't know what to do. mcfarland said bowman would eventually confide in her. when she came to you, what were the conversations like? >> i just remember she was traumatized from sexual abuse. i don't remember the details. i just remember the tears and holding her and telling her she would be with okay. >> mcfarland now wishes she had done more to protect bowman. >> i would have lost my job and

that was scary. i'm just a different person now, too. i'm not excusing it. >> for about a year, bowman took classes and prepared until she says her agent jo farrell declared her ready for new york. >> she was looking to always graduate her talents in to the big leagues. >> so bowman left college for the big apple. >> just getting off the plane was like oh, my gosh. i'm really here. >> bowman said her agent and cosby paid for her apartment and classes at this acting school. >> i felt, you know, that this was an amazing opportunity. >> an opportunity that with hard work might lead to a role on tv's number one show. was the thinking that bill cosby was recruiting to be on "the cosby show"? >> yes. not necessarily like i'm taking you out of denver. we're taking you to new york and

you are going to be on the show but that was all part of the menu of items that were going to be available. >> success for the actress also meant success for the agent. >> millions of young women want to be actresses, and i've got a team of people behind me that believe in me, that care about me. i felt lucky. >> but bowman say that feeling would change drastically. when we come back -- >> i was drugged. i was assaulted. and i was raped. >> and later, in newly released court documents cosby reveals his secret about drugs and sex.

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♪ >> new york city, the big time. it was here a now 18-year-old barbara bowman hope shed could find the acting career she dreamed of. with the backing of her agent

and bill cosby, one of the country's biggest superstars she thought she had a shot . >> i'm going to prove that i have it in me. i'm going to be the model actor, model student. they were going to open those doors for me. >> open those doors, she says, as long as she played by their rules. >> i found myself in new york under complete and utter control of him and my agent. i became very isolated. i was put in to an apartment. i was supposed to just stay on the straight and narrow. go straight to acting classes, come straight back. >> the rude awakening came here. bill cosby's manhattan brownstone. >> when is the last time you saw this? >> that night. >> she says cosby invited her over for what was supposed to be

tutoring. >> i had one glass, went upstairs, started reacting exercised and that was it. i just remember putting the script down because i needed -- i was feeling fuzzy, dizzy. it was like a lob bot my. like you are awake but you are not there. you are vacant. baffled state of mind. next thing i know, i'm in the bathroom and i am throwing up. >> bowman said she didn't know why she was throwing up. cosby would tell her she drank too much. she said she never even finished

her glass of wine. >> so as i'm throwing up over the toilet, and he's right here and the robe is tied but it is open. the boxer shorts are open. and his penis was out. and brushing against my back. >> your panties are on you or off of you? >> they are like on and pulled over to the side, like all messed up. i knew what happened. >> how did you know what happened? >> because a woman knows. i was -- i was wet and dirty. i was drugged. i was assaulted.

i was raped. >> this time bowman says she mustered the courage to tell her agent jo farrell back in denver. >> and she did nothing. insinuated that that didn't happen. what are you talking about? how could you say such a thing? she said that conversation never happened. telling the denver post the women she represented never said anything to me about this. back in new york, barbara bowman said she was distraught. >> i was so freaked out in getting that response. >> unable to get support from her agent, bowman said she turned to a lawyer. >> he didn't believe me. he called my claim preposterous. that's bill cosby you are talking about. he laughed me out of the office. that's all it took was one more person not to believe me.

>> demoralized and alone bowman did not file a police report. after that, why didn't you sever all contact with him? >> it wasn't like that. i was a prisoner. i was completely and utterly dependent. >> dependent and with no choice. she says cosby and her agent moved her to long island 25 miles away from manhattan. why did they move you out here? >> i don't know. you know, i felt like they were hiding me in this tiny little world and i was isolated from everybody. one of the rules was, no visitors. i was very restricted. restricted, isolated and controlled, she says. >> it was like i was always on edge. >> it was while you were living here that atlantic city happened? >> yes .

bill cosby invited me down to the shore. he was performing down there. >> she went. once she got to her hotel room, bowman said she realized her luggage was missing and she started to panic. >> i felt vulnerable and i wanted my stuff and i started to call from his room because he called me down to the room. as soon as i picked up the phone he started to go crazy and slammed the phone down and told me not to worry about the luggage and turn the lights out. >> bowman says all she remembers is waking up the next morning in her room, undressed with her suitcase. >> i got a call from cosby and he summons me over to his room, yelling at me. >> what was he yelling at you about? >> that i embarrassed him and was loud and now the hotel is

going to wonder what he is doing with a 19-year-old girl in his suite and what's the big deal with the luggage and on and on and on. >> cosby, she says, became violent. as she described in a phone call to her best friend denise victor. >> she told me, you know, it's bill cosby, it's bill cosby. >> he threw me down on the bed. jumped on top of me, straddled me, put his arm under my throat. >> she kept saying he's an animal, he's an animal. >> i'm laying there like this screaming, begging, crying, get off. i'm screaming and kicking him from behind like this and he is struggling with all of miss might to get his pants off and undo his belt buckle. >> she kept saying, i fought him, i fought him hard. >> the belt buckle is getting caught and clinking and making all of this racquet and he is adjusting his grip and went for my pants and i

wiggled out, it was like a light switch just clicked and it was like it snapped his reality and kind of caught himself that he was creating this huge scene. he just was seething, finger in my face and called me a baby and kicked me out and he said you are done. that's it. and i literally went back to denver with the clothes on my back. >> it was over. bowman tried to pick up the pieces of her life and restarted her career with roles in several films. >> oh, i'm checkin' it out. >> she tried to put bill cosby out of her mind for the next 20 years. >> i thought i was the only one. >> that is until 2005 when another woman took on bill cosby in court and bowman decided to join the fight.

>> i said, i will be dammed if i will sit in silence anymore. i will do whatever it takes to let people know that woman is telling the truth.

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>> barbara bowman, determined to succeed in a tough business, tried to put cosby out of her mind. she felt she had to. >> i was scared to death, and in my world i didn't think i had anybody else who was listening. >> 20 years had passed from the time bowman says she was raped until 2005 when she read about another woman accusing bill cosby of sexual assault. >> i really believed i was the only other one. i thought, oh, my god, another woman. i became enraged and i said i will be dammed if i will sit in silence anymore. i will do whatever it takes to let people know that that woman is telling the truth because it happened to me. >> that woman was andrea constand. she was the director of

operations for the women's basketball program at temple university at philadelphia. there she met bill cosby a temple graduate and very big man on campus. >> we all knew he was an active alum and that included the women's basketball team. >> diana from the on-line sports site dead spine spin reported on constand and cosby. >> he befriended her, had her over for dinner with the two of them. she thought he was someone who wanted to mentor her. >> in january 2005, she said that cosby sexually assaulted her at his home in suburban philadelphia the year before. bruce caster was the county prosecutor at the time. >> the impressions the detectives gave me is she was telling the truth but her recollection was fuzzy. >> a fuzzy memory he says is

consistent with victims of date rape drugs. >> we were building the theory she had been drugged. >> cosby's lawyer called the accusations it lir preposterous and truly bizarre but cosby agreed to talk to detectives. >> cosby i believe felt he was going to be arrested and was frightened. >> in the end, the prosecutor decide there was not enough evidence to bring charges. >> what i think and what i can prove are two different things. >> undeterred, constand filed a civil suit against cosby laying out her accusations for everyone to see. >> she was the first woman to come forward and come forward and say it with her name. >> she claimed cosby had invited her to his home offering career advice. >> she was talking to him because she was thinking about a career change and nervous about

it and wanted his advice on it and she was talking about how nervous she is. and he offers her three pills he said this will help calm you down. >> constand said he told her they were an herbal medication. but in his court response, cosby said they were one and one half tablets of benadryl. >> she trusted him. >> she trusted him. he's bill cosby. >> constand claimed that after taking the pills she was only barely conscious. >> she felt dizzy. she felt weak. there wasn't much she could do. >> unable to walk on her own, constand said cosby led her to a sofa. >> takes her to the sofa. he touched her breasts, touched her vagina and penetrates her. >> answering the accusations

cosby denied drugsing or sexually assaulting her. >> he is telling the media this is made up, that the family is in it for money and they are trying to extort money from him. >> as part of her civil suit, andrea constand was lining up one witness after another. >> when i finally got in touch with her attorney and said my name is barbara bowman and it happened to me, too. she told me, you are not the only one. >> far from it. in all 12 listed in court documents as jane does had similar accusations. long past the statute of limitations but nonetheless willing to testify the alleged pattern of wrongdoing. most of the women wanted to stay anonymous but a few went public. >> he produced two capsules. >> groped me and kissing me and touching me and handling me. >> cosby's lawyer said the incident she described did not

happen. >> i did not ever deserve that. >> former model talked to the philadelphia daily news. >> he hurt me in the most wicked, horrible ways. >> spokesman for cosby declined to comment. and barbara bowman in "philadelphia magazine." >> what happened was horrible, pain ful and frightening. >> cosby's lawyer called bowman's claims absolutely untrue. but bowman and the others would not back down. >> i want people to know that we are real people out here and it is happening and i'm going to let people know. >> let people know by testifying in andrea constand's civil case. when we come back, constand versus cosby takes an abrupt turn. >> it just seems to disappear in to the air almost.

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>> by late 2006, four women had publicly accused bill cosby of drugging and sexually assaulted them. andrea constand and her lawsuit against cosby. >> tamarra green, beth ferrier and barbara bowman. allegations like these would bring down most public figures, but not bill cosby. >> i wrote my 6500 word piece for philadelphia magazine thinking that with all of these women claiming they have stories similar to andrea constand's, this thing is going to explode. >> but it did not. at least not in 2006. because cosby and andrea constand reached an out of court settlement. the terms were never made public and when the lawsuit end so did the media interest. >> little media attention and it would go away. main stream wouldn't touch it. nobody would touch it. >> cosby maintained his image as

america's favorite dad. >> if you want to really seek it out you can find it or you could go about your day and watching cosby reruns lake this never happened. >> though cosby remained silent he had plenty to say about other matters. >> 13-year-old son has no business seeing himself as a man who can drop a seed and walk away. and somehow call himself a man. >> he toured the country, urging african-americans to take personal responsibility. >> you are dealing drugs to each other. you were impregnating our 13, 12, 11-year-old children. to each other. >> he billed these controversial lectures as call outs. >> i'm calling you out. i'm holding you accountable. >> pretty big irony that he's

lecturing african-american communities about their behavior, what they need to do. at the same time, he's allegations are true certainly hiding behind his own behavior. >> for the next eight years, cosby was mostly out of the entertainment spotlight, but the accolades continued. >> bill cosby would go off in to the sunset unless there was some drama, something that happened to trigger a change. >> that trigger would be an up and coming comedian named hannibal burriss. >> pull your pants off, black people, i was on tv in the '80s. >> last october he called out cosby in a stand up routine. >> i can talk down to you because i had a successful sitcom. yeah, but you rape women, bill

cosby, so you turn down the crazy a couple of notches. >> he accused bill cosby of being a racist and that changed everything. >> it changed everything because on that evening a reporter from philadelphia magazine was in the audience. according to this video. >> heard about hannibal burriss. >> like the media's hannibal burriss. >> the video goes viral. >> hannibal burress called bill cosby a rapist. >> he invited fans to create captions using classic photos from his website. >> what is huge mast miscalculation. they think they were going to combat hannibal buress with people saying nice things with photos of bill cosby. >> whether it was a tactical move it backfires. people use memes to land him about the rape allegations.

barbara bowman sees the irony. >> it took a man to crack a joke on stage in a comedy routine calling bill cosby a rapist for people to go -- wow, maybe there's something to this. >> a month after the burress video, bowman writes for the "washington post" on-line, bill cosby raped me. why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story? >> joining me now, barbara bowman. she lej alleges she was raped by bill cosby. >> she tells her story also on cnn. >> i have been speaking out publicly and trying to have the story believed and heard since 2004. >> rape allegations. >> now the media are finally picking up the story. over at the smithsonian, where bill and his wife camille are displaying their african-american art collection. >> this question gives me no

pleasure, mr. cosby. >> he a asked about the rape allegation. >> there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days you're shaking your head no. i'm in the news business. i have to ask the question. do you have any response to those charges? shaking your head no. >> he associated press also tries to get a response. >> i have to ask you about your name coming up in the news recently regarding this comedian. >> no, no, we don't answer that. >> cosby berates the reporter for even bringing up the subject. >> i would appreciate it if it was scuttled. i think if you want to consider yourself to be serious that it will not appear anywhere. >> it didn't play well. didn't look good for bill cosby. >> under mounting pressure, cosby's camp responds to the renewed allegations. the fact they are being repeated did not make them true.

mr. cosby did not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment." one thing is clear, reporters who for years failed to ask boz by the hard questions are paying attention and this time the story is not going away. when we come back. >> he drugged and raped me. >> more than two dozen women come forward. >> bill cosby appears to think rape is a joke. >> and new revelation in cosby's own words about drugs and sex. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> and a round of tv interviews. >> victims don't come out. they don't talk. they are ashamed and embarrassed. every bit of media i did was directed at victims. i practically pleaded for them to come forward. >> rape allegations by multiple women. >> and this time they do. >> when i came to, i was in bed with him naked. >> the next week, an avalanche of accusations in the media. as women allege that cosby sexually assaulted them during the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. >> then he started to push himself on top of me, like against the seat. >> i was kind of leaning forward and he was behind me having sex with me . >> the stories just keep coming. >> several claim they were drugged. >> i was feeling more and more groggy. >> including former "playboy" playmate victoria valentino. >> when he opened his fly he forced me to perform oral sec and he turned me over and when

he was done he got up and started to walk out. >> it went blank. >> former talent agency secretary cristina rulely >> he had the hand on the back of my head and he was trying to push it toward his erect penis. i lifted my head away and pulled myself away immediately. >> cosby's lawyer says the allegations are absurd. these brand new claims about alleged decades old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous and it's completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing and made no reports to law enforcement or asserted civil claims if they thought they had been assaulted over a span of so many years. as for cosby's comeback, the damage is done. >> we believe the women! >> reporter: netflix shelved his comedy special. nbc abandoned his plans for an upcoming sitcom. tvland stopped airing reruns of

"the cosby show." >> people believe these women now and nobody wants to be associated with a man who's being accused of being a serial rapist. >> cosby breaks his silence to a local paper in florida. i know people are tired of me not saying anything. but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos. people should fact check. people shouldn't have to go through that. and shouldn't answer to innuendos. >> i want people to know that i had an encounter with bill cosby. >> he built my trust by pretending to be a friend. he drugged and raped me. >> i couldn't move or say anything. i felt something warm on my legs. >> in the weeks that followed, the number of accusers grows to more than two dozen. >> i knew he had drugged me. >> cosby was on top of me, kissing me forcefully. >> i woke up in a bed naked,

bruised. >> he was laying next to me. >> bill cosby declined our request for an interview. but last december, cosby's wife of more than 50 years, camille cosby released this statement -- "the man i met and fell in love with and whom i can't to love is the man you all knew through his work. he's a kind man, a generous man, a funny man and a wonderful husband, father and friend. he's the man you thought you knew. "a different man had been portrayed in the media over the last two months. it is the portrait of a man i do not know. a portrait, mrs. cosby says painted by irresponsible media. none of us want to be in the position of attacking a victim, but the question should be asked who is the victim? >> whole new chapter for the many accusers of bill cosby. >> bill cosby under oath. >> now seven months later, the question is once again in the

headlines, triggered by new information. >> is this really the slam dunk that vindicates cosbys dozens of accusers? >> in the 2005 case filed by andrea constand from temple university's athletic program, sealed court documents released after the associated press pushed for them in court contained a startling admission. in a deposition, cosby said in the 1970s, he had prescriptions for the hypnotic sediment quaaludes. constands lawyer asked when you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these for young women you wanted to have sex. cosby responds, yes. question, did you ever give any of those young women the quaaludes without their knowledge? cosby's lawyer tells his client, do not answer it. now accusers, who have stood their ground are voicing their relief and a sense of

vindication. >> i was absolutely elated. i couldn't stop just screaming, you know, i was just going oh, my god, oh, my god. because obviously we already knew. it's high time that the world with finally starts to look and see directly at mr. cosby and that he is the one at fault, not us. >> it is a game changer and it's about time. >> cosby's legacy already clouded hangs in the balance. >> professionally, you can't deny his career and the importance of "the cosby show." he is mr. huxtable, but then you have to look at the man who created that character bill cosby and everything he's accused of doing and also remember that. >> because the statute of limitations has expired of almost all of the alleged incidents, it's unlikely cosby will ever face criminal charges. but for barbara bowman, the long battle has been worth it.

>> i have to imagine that there's a sinking feeling somewhere in his gut that it's over. >> in the days we spent with her last fall, she shared painful, intimate details about the past 30 years. and she was stoic. >> that is until the end of our last interview. >> oh, my god. people are listening. my story is told. i'm not lying and now people know it. and i'm so sad for all of us, but it validates every one of us to be able to compare our stories and see the similarities and knowing in our heart finally that it happened, did it happen, it really happened? yes, it really happened. and it's over. it's over. ♪

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