Name: Joyce Emmons

Age: 70 

Occupation: former comedy-club manager

Year of Alleged Assault by Bill Cosby: 1979-1980

Emmons managed a comedy club and became friends with Cosby. They had known each other for about two-and-a-half years when Emmons and her friend went out to a club with Cosby and one of his friends. Emmons had a headache and she asked Cosby for a Tylenol. He told her he had something stronger. Emmons took the pill and woke up in bed, naked, with Cosby’s friend. She doesn’t remember the night. “I did not say Bill did me,” Emmons says. “I don’t know what he did to me. His friend did it.” She came forward in November 2014 because she wanted people to know the name of the drug he used on women: Quaaludes. “He wanted to show me his top dresser drawer where he kept all the drugs, if I ever wanted to do any. I said, ‘Bill, I don’t do drugs.’ He kept it there for his friends. He was clean. He gave it to the women that he was doing. I never knew what he did to women about raping them. How could I? He’s not going to rape someone in front of me.”

“All I remember is taking the pill; I don’t remember going to bed. But I do remember waking up in a fog and opening my eyes, and I had no clothes on, and I had clothes on when I took the pill. I had no clothes on, and there was Bill’s friend, totally naked in bed with me. I didn’t share my room with him, so he came in there. I don’t know how, or what happened. I looked at him, and he looked at me, and he started to laugh and smile, and he said, ‘Oh, did you have a good time?’ I said, ‘What the fuck happened? Do you always F a dead person?’ Because that’s what I was. I was a dead person at that time. He didn’t say anything, I grabbed my blanket and went and took a shower. I got my clothes on. Bill said, ‘Where are you going?’ I said, ‘I’m leaving.’ I said, ‘What the F did you give me?’ He said, ‘Oh, you had a bad headache. You were in so much pain. I gave you a Quaalude.’”

Photo: Amanda Demme