While a judge mulls whether several women may anonymously accuse Bill Cosby in court of drugging and groping them, another alleged victim of the comic has outed herself.
Beth Ferrier, a 46-year-old former model, told Thursday's Philadelphia Daily News that she believes Cosby plied her with spiked coffee and molested her once she zonked out.
"The impact on my life has been monumental," Ferrier said in the paper. "He made me feel like I'd done something wrong."
Ferrier is one of 13 women who are prepared to go to court to say it is the family-friendly entertainer who has done something wrong.
Andrea Constand, 31, filed a sexual-assault lawsuit against Cosby in March. The complaint alleges that in January 2004, during a visit to Cosby's Philadelphia-area home, the former sitcom star slipped Constand three blue pills under the guise that they were "herbal medicine." But instead of helping her de-stress, Constand alleges, the pills made her woozy--and an easy target for Cosby's wandering hands.
The lawsuit was filed after authorities in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, declined to pursue criminal charges against Cosby.
Constand's action has rallied 12 other women who want to take the stand in the civil case and say that they were similarly victimized by the sweater-wearing television institution.
Nine of the women are seeking to testify without divulging their names--the jurors wouldn't know them, the courtroom observers wouldn't know them. They'd each be entered into the public record as a Jane Doe.
According to the Daily News, Ferrier was down as Jane Doe No. 5, although she has not asked to remain anonymous. Tamara Green, a 57-year-old attorney from California, is another of Cosby's alleged former victims who has publicly identified herself.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno heard arguments Wednesday as to whether the Jane Does who wish to remain Jane Does may do so. There was no word on when a ruling would be handed down.
Ferrier said she came forward because she wanted to support Constand and Green. "I want Bill Cosby to know I'm not afraid of him and that what he did to me was wrong," Ferrier said in the Daily News.
According to the account given to the newspaper, Ferrier alleges she carried on a six-month affair with the married Cosby in 1984, the same year The Cosby Show began its top-rated run. After breaking it off, the two reconnected at a comedy club in Denver, where he was performing. After a show, she told the Daily News, Cosby gave her coffee. The next thing she knew, Ferrier said, "I was in the back of my car all alone. My clothes were a mess. My bra was undone. My top was untucked."
Ferrier said she didn't know exactly what had happened until she read Constand's story of being drugged and groped by Cosby. "I was like, 'Oh, my gosh! It's just like what happened to me,' " she said in the paper.
Ferrier sold her account to the National Enquirer for $7,500, but the story was never published, the newspaper noted.
Cosby, 67, has denied any wrongdoing. In March, he told the Enquirer that he was being exploited because of his status as a celebrity.