--- title: Bill Cosby Drugged Women: Quaaludes Deposition + Rape Accusations description: The comedy legend, long silent about accusations lodged against him, admitted to getting drugs for the purposes of drugging women—in his own words canonical: https://time.com/3947272/bill-cosby-drugged-women-quaalude-news/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-06T22:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:38.290Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Bill Cosby Drugged Women: Quaaludes Deposition + Rape Accusations og:description: The comedy legend, long silent about accusations lodged against him, admitted to getting drugs for the purposes of drugging women—in his own words og:url: https://time.com/3947272/bill-cosby-drugged-women-quaalude-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eec2ca84225ef2d/6987791e5f570f7573b149a8/bill-cosby.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jackie Robinson Foundation 2014 Awards Dinner og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bill Cosby Drugged Women: Quaaludes Deposition + Rape Accusations twitter:description: The comedy legend, long silent about accusations lodged against him, admitted to getting drugs for the purposes of drugging women—in his own words twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eec2ca84225ef2d/6987791e5f570f7573b149a8/bill-cosby.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Bill Cosby's Admission Should Put an End to the Era of Cosby Defenders > Sponsored content. 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Bill Cosby speaks at the Jackie Robinson Foundation 2014 Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on March 3, 2014 in New York City.Stephen Lovekin—Getty Images  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Jul 6, 2015 10:00 PM UTC On July 6, the Associated Press reported that Bill Cosby testified in 2005 [he had obtained Quaaludes](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FBILL%5FCOSBY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-07-06-17-31-35) to drug young women and had indeed dosed at least one woman. This admission, from a lawsuit that was settled in 2006, should move the Cosby controversy forward in a major way. Certain aspects of it just can’t be controversial anymore. Since Cosby’s alleged practices of drugging women with sexual intentions came under new scrutiny last year—[thanks in part to a Hannibal Buress comedy routine](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-hannibal-buress-and-why-did-he-call-bill-cosby-a-rapist/)—there’s been an easy out for any of the comedian’s defenders. As accusers began to come forward in startling volume, those who believed in the Cosby’s innocence could plead that the comedy icon was being tried in the court of public opinion, rather than in a court of law, and that “outrage culture” was leading women to lodge charges that might or might not be true. Always implied, and sometimes stated, was the idea that Bill Cosby, a comedian known by millions of _Cosby Show_ viewers as paternal, warm, and aspirational, was simply incapable of such deeds. “This is about something else. This is about the obliteration of legacy,” his _Cosby Show_ costar [Phylicia Rashad said](http://www.people.com/article/phylicia-rashad-bill-cosby-misquoted); the accusers were perceived as out to take down an icon. After all, it was the word of sometimes-anonymous accusers against the word of a legend. This newly released testimony, clearly, doesn’t address each one of the accusers’ claims. But it puts an end to the idea that such claims were motivated by a desire to boost the accusers’ own profiles, or to take down a comedy hero, because Cosby reportedly admits culpability in his own words. Bill Cosby _is_, in fact, the sort of person who would do such a thing; he said so himself, in testimony he presumed would remain sealed post-settlement and that only became public through dogged reporting. For those inclined to trust the preponderance of evidence, the fact that there was eventually definitive proof of Cosby’s behavior towards women comes as no surprise. What’s more surprising is that the man himself—one who allowed fans, costars, and family members to defend him for so long—had confessed his behavior in his own words. Cosby [has only spoken publicly](http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/15/media/bill-cosby-breaks-silence/) about the allegations against him in the vaguest of terms, leaving an opening for his defenders to read into his silence anything they wanted. That period of debate, in which Cosby’s level of culpability remained entirely in doubt, is now over. The question is whether, the heat of the Cosby scandal having died down as suddenly as it blew up, the public will still care. ### Bill Cosby’s Public Life in Photos  Bill Cosby performs on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. CBS/Getty Images  A portrait of Bill Cosby taken in 1965. Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Bill Cosby poses with his Emmy for his role in I Spy at the Primetime Emmy Awards in New York City in 1966. AP  A portrait of Bill Cosby taken in 1969. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Bill Cosby performs on The Second Bill Cosby Special in 1969. Fred Sabine—NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby attends the "Concert at Town Hall" at Town Hall in New York City in 1971. Ron Galella—WireImage/Getty Images  Bill Cosby as Chet Kincaid on The Bill Cosby Show. NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable in The Cosby Show. Frank Carroll—NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby is interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in 1992. Wendy Perl—NBC/Getty Images  Bill Cosby speaks to an audience on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia in 2006, in Washington D.C. LAWRENCE JACKSON—AP  Host Bill Cosby speaks onstage at the 2011 Jackie Robinson Foundation awards gala atThe Waldorf Astoria in 2011 in New York City. Stephen Lovekin—Getty Images  Bill Cosby attends the 2011 Temple University Commencement at the Liacouras Center in 2011 in Philadelphia, Pa. Gilbert Carrasquillo—Getty Images  Bill Cosby attends the 2014 American Comedy Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom on April 26, 2014 in New York City. 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