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00:00 I wanted justice from the beginning, criminal justice.
00:03 I wanted Bill Cosby in jail for what he did to me.
00:06 Canadian Andrea Constant was the lone woman to do that.
00:10 Chosen by prosecution lawyers as the linchpin accuser
00:14 out of more than 60 who allege Bill Cosby sexually assaulted them.
00:18 It was a very big burden to carry.
00:22 I think my history as a professional athlete
00:26 served me very well throughout the process.
00:29 After serving three years in prison, Cosby was released in 2021
00:34 and the ruling against him overturned.
00:36 Cosby vehemently denied all charges and claimed in court
00:39 sexual activities between him and Constant were consensual.
00:43 And Constant, once a college basketball star,
00:46 is now a champion of a different kind.
00:49 I had a group of women, incredible women, survivors
00:53 who were the wind beneath my wings.
00:56 The case against Cosby is not the first documentary
00:59 on the sexual assault accusations against the comedian.
01:02 The Andrea that walked in that door that night
01:07 was not the Andrea that walked out the door.
01:12 But what makes it different is the focus on Cosby's accusers
01:16 more than on America's dad himself.
01:19 Wedged between the interviews of the accusers and attorneys
01:23 are the scenes with women attending a healing retreat
01:26 with internationally known trauma expert Dr. Gabor Mate.
01:30 You clearly had to be so strong, not just strong, also powerful.
01:34 These days, do you ever let go of being strong?
01:40 I think I try.
01:42 Three things that I really wanted to achieve.
01:44 Number one was Andrea's extraordinary story,
01:49 which includes the legal story, which was an odyssey.
01:52 The mind of a perpetrator, understanding the mind of a perpetrator
01:57 and how they operate.
01:59 And the third thing is understanding trauma
02:02 and why when something like this happens to someone,
02:05 they don't just get over it.
02:07 What they hope the audiences get out of it is
02:10 there's no such thing as how a typical rape victim behaves.
02:14 We're still a long way to go for every story like Andrea's.
02:18 There's tens of thousands of women who don't believe
02:20 they're going to be believed.
02:21 I wanted Bill Cosby in jail for what he did to me.
02:24 As the case against Cosby is released,
02:26 Bill Cosby is in the news again,
02:27 with a new lawsuit against him launching in New York.
02:30 Cosby's lawyer, Jennifer Bongine,
02:33 declined to comment on the documentary,
02:35 but is reported to have said,
02:37 "It seems to start with a false premise,
02:39 namely that Mr. Cosby was convicted.
02:41 Mr. Cosby does not stand convicted of any crime
02:44 against any accuser, including Ms. Constant."
02:47 He said he's planning on touring again.
02:50 When you read those news or see them on your TV,
02:53 what's your reaction?
02:55 How do you feel?
02:56 I feel like if anybody deserves to come back to her,
02:59 it's all the women.
03:01 It's the 60-plus Cosby women out there
03:04 whose lives got shattered.
03:06 For now, this new documentary is giving at least
03:09 some of these women a voice.
03:11 Deanna, you sat down with Andrea Constant
03:15 about three years since her case saw Cosby convicted,
03:18 though it was overturned.
03:19 What's your sense of how she's come through this?
03:22 Ian, she really exudes that kind of quiet confidence
03:25 of somebody who is an elite athlete.
03:27 And in fact, in this documentary,
03:29 she says that part of her healing journey,
03:31 as she calls it, has been trying to let go of that strength,
03:35 of having to be strong all the time
03:37 and to be a little more vulnerable.
03:38 And she wants us all to be aware of this.
03:41 It's part of her mission to educate the public
03:43 that there's no such thing as a typical way
03:46 that a woman who says she was sexually assaulted behaves.
03:49 Some women appear distressed, others appear stoic,
03:52 yet others turn to substance abuse.
03:54 She wants people to know this and hopes that it eventually
03:57 permeates the understanding of the legal system, too.
04:00 Ian. - Thanks, Deanna.
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