A woman who was a "Jane Doe" in a 2005 civil suit against Bill Cosby, has come forward to give an interview with BuzzFeed News—and she's revealed a number of bizarre demands that the comedian put her through.
Going just by the name Patricia, Patricia said that she met Cosby in 1978 when she was 22 years old. Patricia met Cosby at a University of Massachusetts conference that she was working on as an event planner. When she thanked him for speaking, Cosby invited her to come to a "dinner party." At said dinner party, Patricia was surprised that it was just Cosby and her—but she wanted to remain appearing "grown up" and unphased by the more-intimate-than-she-was-expecting fireplace setting. It was their initial meeting that set his escalating "queen" demands.
“It was so creepy,” Patricia said. “He told me to convince him that I could remain regal and queenlike no matter what I looked like. I would leave the room and walk back in, pretending to be a queen with oatmeal on her face, and he would tell me I was doing it wrong and to go back and try again. Then, I started to feel weird from the drink. And then I don’t remember much.”
Patricia blacked out and then came to in Cosby’s guest bedroom, she said. She was naked, and Cosby was standing over her in a bathrobe. He told Patricia she had thrown up and passed out and that he’d had to wash her dress. He was even nice enough to offer her a toothbrush.
Patricia said she trusted Cosby even after she woke up naked after the “dinner party” at his home. She didn’t understand why she had blacked out after one drink, but she was more focused on how humiliated she felt after getting sick in front of the already legendary star — the next morning was the sickest she ever felt, and she had to pull over four times to throw up on the side of the road while driving home, she said.
Patricia said that Cosby then paid for acting classes for her. She told BuzzFeed that Cosby would regularly check in on her acting lessons, and her exercise schedule (Cosby told her that professionally, she needed to lose weight). Cosby took Patricia to a few events, including the National Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement of Wilt Chamberlain.
The last time that Patricia saw Cosby was in 1980, when he started to make very specific appearance demands of her.
Cosby had an unusual request: He demanded that Patricia style her hair like Queen Noor of Jordan. “He was obsessed with her,” Patricia said. Cosby even sent Patricia a photo of the queen with her hair up in a teased bun so that a hairdresser could replicate the look.
Cosby refused to further speak with Patricia unless she agreed to take pills that would "relax" her. When she did, she again woke up at his place, naked.
“I was very sick and knew that someone had penetrated me,” she said. “Finally, I realized what was happening.”
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When Patricia confronted Cosby about the previous night, she tells BuzzFeed that he was furious, and called her ungrateful.
“I internalized the events with tremendous shame and far too much responsibility,” she told BuzzFeed. “I didn’t think that anyone would believe me.”
Patricia was one of 14 Jane Does who testified in a civil suit filed by Andrea Constand against Cosby in 2005 stating that Cosby had drugged and raped her. After Constand received a settlement, Patricia says that the Jane Does were silenced. She is now the seventh Jane Doe to come forward for an interview (her identity was confirmed to BuzzFeed by Constand's attorney).
“The late ’70s and early ’80s were very different times than the culture in which we live at present,” Patricia told BuzzFeed. “Powerful men were not challenged by women. I didn’t think anyone would believe me.”
Patricia urges other Jane Does to come forward, knowing that there are likely even more than the 30+ rape and sexual misconduct allegations Cosby has had levied against him, saying that like her, they don't need to use their full name, or be available for photographs.
