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*Bill Cosby was found guilty of sexual assault last week and could face up to 30 years in prison. The former comedian will be sentenced within 75 days, but until then the 80-year-old will be on house arrest.
While his attorneys talk of innocence and appeals, Cosby is reportedly mentally and preparing himself for prison.
“This is what they wanted,”Cosby told Page Six after a Pennsylvania jury found him guilty Thursday of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.
Throughout the trial, Cosby repeatedly talked to Page Six about “that place.”
He meant a prison cell, which might become his home for the rest of his life if a judge sentences him to a maximum of 30 years.
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“When they send me to that place, I want you to be there to tell my story because it seems no one is listening, no one wants the real story,” Cosby said.
During his recently concluded retrial, Cosby’s public demeanor turned bitter and he could be heard using hard language: “Damn you! F–k this! Bulls–t.”
According to Page Six, he often ground his teeth, bit his lip and clenched his fist, as the parade of mostly white female accusers told their stories of being drugged and sexually assaulted.
“When there was talk of a plea bargain, I said no,” Cosby told Page Six last year. “I just refused to plead guilty to something that just didn’t happen. It didn’t happen, and Andrea knows that, and I think [prosecutors] know that.”
The deal offered during his first trial in 2017 would have required him to serve under house arrest, register as a sex offender and be on probation for an undisclosed period.
“Why take a deal?” he said. “Not when they want me to say that I’m a sex offender. I didn’t do what they said I did.
“But, you know, I think back to the time when Camille and I went to visit Nelson Mandela in South Africa. He was a free man, but I remember when we met him at Robben Island where he had been in a prison for all of those years. I sat in that cell where he lived, and I saw how he lived . . . what he had to eat to live and what he went through.
“So, if they send me to that place, then that’s what they will do, and I will have to go there.”
Meanwhile, Bill Cosby‘s not going to get treated like any other prisoner if he ends up getting locked up, as Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections provides a wide range of services for inmates with special needs, including those who are blind — like Cosby.
