"This is what they wanted," Cosby said of his own conviction. Of Mandela, whom he and his wife, Camille, visited in prison in the '80s, Cosby added: "I sat in that cell where he lived, and I saw how he lived … what he had to eat to live and what he went through. So if they send me to that place, then that's what they will do, and I will have to go there."