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It was a gynecologist who supplied Bill Cosby with Quaaludes to give to women he hoped to sleep with.

The disgraced comedian got his hands on the drug via a friend who was a Hollywood gynecologist named Leroy Amar, reports the Washington Post.

Cosby, now 78, admitted to receiving seven prescriptions for the pills – known as “disco biscuits” during the ‘70s — from Amar, under guise of using them for his sore back.

During a just-released 2005 deposition, Cosby was asked if he ever intended to take the Quaaludes, which were “known to induce disorientation and euphoria.”

“No,” he answered.

The shocking information comes from a previously sealed transcription from a closed sexual-assault civil case against Cosby in Pennsylvania, which was released to the New York Times and other news outlets last weekend by Andrea Constand’s lawyers.

Amar, who also practiced plastic surgery, died in 2002. Melon S. Hollis, a former attorney who blames the doctor for his disbarment told the paper that Amar was known to give out pills to his glamorous friends under suspicious circumstances.

“I would not doubt in a minute that Amar would sign a prescription to give anybody anything they wanted. That’s just the way he was,” he said. “He was unscrupulous.”

At some point, Amar is said to have learned what Cosby really was using the drug for and confronted the comedian after his “alleged inappropriate behavior” with a young singer named Tamara Green who was a friend of the doctor.

“In her presence, Amar confronted Cosby, almost coming to blows,” an attorney for Constand said. “He warned Cosby never to do anything like that again to Green.”

Cosby, as he has throughout this scandal, denies that the events ever happened. Instead his attorneys stressed that the formerly beloved entertainer only used Quaaludes for recreational purposes and consensual sex.

The comedian’s legal team feels that release of the deposition violates the agreed to settlement terms.