LOS ANGELES — Two women who claim they were sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby said Monday they are joining an effort to unseal an entire 2005 deposition he gave, in which he admitted giving Quaaludes to women with whom he wanted to have sex.

Beth Ferrier and Lynn Neal, who both claim they were drugged and sexually assaulted by the comedian decades ago, said they are joining the effort by a woman who sued Cosby in 2005 in Pennsylvania.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who represents 17 alleged Cosby victims, said her firm filed a memorandum in support of efforts to release Cosby’s entire transcript to see what he stated about them.

“We will pursue Mr. Cosby until the full truth comes out,” said Ferrier, who alleges she was assaulted in Denver in 1986 and is one of 13 Jane Does in the 2005 case.

“It is important for the world to know the truth that Bill Cosby hunted me like a predator … in recently released excerpts he admits he was with me in Denver and he probably had sex with me,” she said Monday at a Los Angeles news conference with Allred.

Ferrier, who was Jane Doe No. 5, has said she believes Cosby had sex with her after putting a drug in her coffee. Ferrier said she told the National Enquirer in 2005, but the tabloid did not run her story, instead choosing to publish an interview with the performer.

Allred said the women are seeking to have the entire deposition unsealed so they can defend themselves. She said neither of the women took any drugs voluntarily.

Neal, also one of the suit’s Jane Does, said she was assaulted by Cosby in 1983 when she was a masseur at a Las Vegas health club.

“I am surprised he does not remember me,” she said. “He wanted me to come to a show.”


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