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Cindra Ladd shared her story in a column published on The Huffington Post on Monday, January 26, claiming Bill raped her when she was 21 in an apartment in New York in 1969.

Jan 27, 2015

AceShowbiz - New woman who accuses Bill Cosby of sexual assault has come forward. Cindra Ladd, a former entertainment executive and the wife of Hollywood producer Alan Ladd Jr., opened up about her story in a column titled "Cosby: 'Trust Me.' " published on The Huffington Post on Monday, January 26.

Cindra claimed she first met Bill when she was 21 and single, working in New York for the late film producer Ray Stark. At that time, the comedian was 32 and already married to his wife Camille. "He asked for my number and I gave it to him," Cindra shared, "We began hanging out, took in a movie, watched television and ate pizza and hot dogs in my apartment with my roommate."

She continued, "One night we were going out to a movie. We agreed to meet at an apartment that he said belonged to a friend of his. I had a terrible headache but didn't want to cancel the evening. He told me he had a miracle cure his doctor had given him that would get rid of the headache. He went into another room and came back with a capsule. I asked a couple of times what it was. Each time he reassured me, asking, 'Don't you trust me?' Of course I did. This was Bill Cosby."

Cindra said her memory about what happened that night still remained "a blur," adding, "I have a vague recollection of feeling like I was floating while walking through Times Square and watching some kind of Japanese samurai movie with him. I don't remember where the theater was nor very much of the evening."

She claimed, "What I do recall, vividly and clearly, is waking up the next morning nude in the bed of his friend's apartment and seeing Cosby wearing a white terrycloth bathrobe and acting as if there was nothing unusual. It was obvious to me that he had had sex with me. I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed. There was a mirror above the bed, which shocked me further."

Cindra then quickly left the apartment after "some awkward small talk" with Bill. She started to cry in the elevator and continued to do so as she walked home. Just like many other accusers who recently came forward, Cindra chose not to report the crime to police.

"It never occurred to me to go to the police," she shared, "It was a different time and 'date rape' was a concept that didn't exist. I just kept asking myself over and over in disbelief why this had happened to me. Other than my roommate, I did not discuss that night with anyone for 36 years."

Cindra said it took her a while to tell her husband about the incident. "I only revealed nine years ago what happened that night to my husband of nearly 30 years after another woman went public with similar allegations and sued Cosby," she recalled, "I always thought I was the only one. I couldn't believe he had done this to others."

Cindra added, "This is the first time I have chosen to speak out about that night. It is also the last time I intend to address it publicly. I have no plans to sue, I don't want or need money. I have no plans for a press conference or for doing any interviews. So why speak out at all and why now? The simple answer is that it's the right thing to do. The truth deserves to be known."

Cindra said she encountered Bill just once since the incident when her husband introduced the comedian to her. "I was shaking, wondering if he would recognize me by my unusual first name. His reaction spoke volumes. To Bill Cosby, I was just another stranger," she recalled.