Alan Ladd Jr.'s wife accuses Bill Cosby of rape: 'I was horrified, embarrassed and ashamed'

Cindra Ladd, the wife of Oscar winning producer Alan Ladd Jr., has come forward to join the growing list of women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault. She claims she was raped by the comedian in 1969, when she was 21.

In a piece written for The Huffington Post, Ladd writes that she was in New York, working for the late producer Ray Stark at the time. She met Cosby, then 32 and already married to Camille Cosby, and he acted like a “perfect gentleman” when they went out together with Ladd’s roommate. At first, he didn’t appear interested in either of them, “which, I have to admit, made me wonder what his objective was,” Ladd noted.

They went to a movie one night, when Ladd had a throbbing headache. Cosby told her that she had a “miracle cure” that could get rid of her 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,” she wrote.

She wrote that the rest of that night was a “blur,” but she did recall vividly how she woke up.

“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,” Ladd revealed. “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.”

She did not talk about the incident with anyone other than her roommate and she didn’t think of calling the police.

“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,” Ladd wrote. “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.”

Ladd said that it was “the right thing to do” to come forward with her story, as over 20 other women have shared theirs.

“In the years since that night I have crossed paths with Cosby only once, when my husband, a highly successful Oscar-winning film executive and producer, introduced me to him,” she concluded. “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.”

Cosby is still trying to perform, but had to cancel a Charlotte show. He’s also facing allegations from Chloe Goins, who claims she was assaulted in 2008. Cosby’s lawyer, Martin Singer, has strongly denied these allegations.

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