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>> yes. and he felt very embarrassed. >> reporter: andrea decided to make her own call to the local police. canadian detectives interviewed her, then contacted the authorities in pennsylvania where cosby lived. they opened an investigation. and that made news. >> bill cosby is the focus of a police investigation near philadelphia. p it stems from an allegation -- >> did you understand, andrea, how public this all might get at that point? >> yes. i -- >> were you scared? >> i was. yes. and it sun...

On, and id say to him, "do you think somethings wrong with her?" and so it was like both of us where somethings not right. >> reporter: andrea insisted nothing was wrong. then one morning about a year after cosby assaulted her an emotional dam broke. >> i woke up and i had a bad dream. and that dream was that mr. cosby would do this to somebody else if i did not say or tell someone. so i woke up crying, and i said, "mom, mr. cosby drugged me and he sexually violated me." and she was so caught of...

>> i forgave bill cosby for what he did to me. i forgive him. its been many, many years. and if i did not forgive him, i wouldnt have peace. and i sit here today and i have my peace. >> reporter: and a new purpose. the last 14 years have changed andrea -- and the world around her. shes okay with that. in fact, she embraces it. >> do you consider yourself part of what everybody calls the #metoo movement, the moment that were having in this culture? >> well, i think, yes, but im just proud of ever...

>> underestimated. >> you were underestimated. >> absolutely. >> reporter: andreas lawyers had lots of questions for cosby. and because thiswas a civil case, the comedian was forced to sit for a deposition. >> can you describe what happened when you walked in the room? >> well, it was four days, and each day, he had at least four male lawyers there. >> was he confident? >> well, he was arrogant. there was one part, that he uses to explain how, in his mind, women dont need to verbalize their cons...

Lawyers went after her. >> the defense painted a picture, andrea, of you giving inconsistent statements to different police agencies, saying different things at different times. >> well, thats fair. and understandably so. going through that kind of traumatic situation is very difficult. and the one thing that ive remained consistent of is what he did to me that night. it will never go away. its stuck in my brain for the rest of my life. >> your story on that has never changed. >> no. >> reporter...

>> when andrea called me in 2005, little could i imagine that wed still be on this journey in 2018. >> reporter: bebe kivitz and dolores troiani had years of experience helping survivors of sexual assault. after andreas story made news, other women privately reached out with similar accusations. >> you start hearing from a lot of women. >> right. thirteen.// >> all of whom tell -- tell you what? >> well, some of them were consensual relationships, but everyone had the same story, which is, "im w...

Wasnt interested in cosbys money. but she did want the name of the drug hed given andrea. shed asked him for that in their previous phone call. >> are you really gonna send me on that piece of paper the name of that stuff or not. or were you joking? >> oh, no, no, no, no. we can, we can talk about what you asked for later. >> okay. >> okay. >> okay, just because im concerned. i, i dont know how it affected her and i wanna know. >> i dont think so, d -- ho wouldnt even worry about it if i were, i...

>> reporter: finally, it was time for andrea to tell her story to a jury. >> as well as i held myself, a part of me was nervous that i would have to, again, go through this traumatic incident that happened to me all over again. >> live through it again. >> yes. >> reporter: on the stand she recounted that night back in 2004 at cosbys home. when she finished, his defense team challenged her story, zeroing in on inconsistenices. on the sixth day of deliberating, the jury announced it was hopelessl...

Friends. >> reporter: and there was more. dolores specifically asked him about quaaludes, a prescription sedative popular in the 70s "when you got the quaaludes was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with?" cosby answered yes." >> and he never takes them himself. he said he had seven prescriptions of quaaludes for young women to have sex with. >> reporter: in november 2006, cosby settled the lawsuit and admitted no wrongdoing. a...

Interaction with anyone without consent. he has not been charged in connection with any allegation other than andreas. after the accusers testified in april, its was andreas turn. a friend was there for support. angela rose founded a survivor advocacy group called pave. >> we had to wait in a small little hallway before we went into the court and i remember being in that hallway and us just holding hands and just saying a prayer for justice. and i just told her, "you can do this." >> reporter: f...