Bill Cosby Is Freed 2 Months Before Release Of Sexual Assault Accuser Andrea Constand's Memoir About Taking Him Down
June 30 2021, Published 5:25 p.m. ET
Bill Cosby was freed from prison two months before his accuser in the overturned case was able to share her story with the world.
While Andrea Constand's memoir, The Moment: Standing Up to Bill Cosby, Speaking Up for Women, is set to be released on Sept. 7, the book's main subject, Bill Cosby, was released on June 30 from a state prison near Philadelphia after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
The disgraced TV icon had served more than two years of the three- to 10-year sentence for allegedly drugging and raping Constand, a then-Temple University employee, in 2004. More on the court's ruling here.
As bizarre timing would have it, Constand had actually shared a few excerpts of her unreleased book with Elle magazine earlier this month.
In the published extracts, she wrote about the day she received a call from one of her attorneys, Dolores Troiani, letting her know that the district attorney at the time had decided not to move forward with her case, meaning Cosby would not be charged.
"I wasn't surprised. Not really," Constand wrote. "My lawyers and I had sensed that the case we were attempting to pursue wasn't looking good. It was yet another sharp blow in what had already been, without a doubt, the most difficult year of my life."
Describing where she was at mentally and physically the year prior, Constand explained, "I had a good future before me. I knew who I was and I liked who I was. I was at the top of my game, certain that the groundwork laid by my education and my athletic training had prepared me for whatever challenges were ahead."
"But I was wrong. Very wrong," she said. "Nothing could have prepared me for an early January evening spent at the home of a man I considered a friend. That was the night that Bill Cosby raped me."