Accuser testifies that Cosby drugged her with ‘prop’ wine

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A Colorado woman who saysBill Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1984 became the first accuser to take the stand at the comedian’s retrial Tuesday.

Heidi Thomas, then a 24-year-old struggling actress, described an encounter that seemed to start out innocently enough: with a sip of wine at a private ranch in Reno, Nev., for what was supposed to be acting lessons with the married star.

“He said this is a prop. He said sip on it,” Thomas testified.

But what happened next was anything but part of the script, the witness said.

She said she awoke on a bed fully clothed, while Cosby was naked.

“I remember the voice saying — he always referred to himself in the third person, always ‘Mr. C.,’ or ‘your friend’ — and he said, ‘Your friend is going to come again,’ ” Thomas said.

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