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Old friend lobs new accusation at Bill Cosby

Jayme Deerwester
USA TODAY

Mere hours after Bill Cosby played a sold-out comedy show in Melbourne, Fla., and spoke out about having to defend himself "against innuendo," another woman has come forward with an accusation.

This time, though, the woman says Cosby did not commit the sexual assault — someone else did.

Overnight, TMZ.com reported that Joyce Emmon, a friend of Cosby's from the comedy club circuit, said that he once gave her a white pill that he said would help her migraine. Emmon says she then blacked out and woke up in Cosby's bed with a friend of the comedian that she had turned down earlier that night.

When she confronted Cosby about what he had given her, he answered, 'It was just a Quaalude.'"

Emmons spoke of a "drawerful" of drugs in Cosby's hotel room. Although she never saw him use them, she witnessed plenty of other people who knowingly did.

"The brand-new claims about decade-old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous," Cosby's attorney, Marty Singer, told TMZ Friday night. He called them "unsubstantiated, fantastical stories" that went unreported for decades.

At a red carpet event Friday in New York, People interviewed Today host Kathie Lee Gifford, who often opened for Cosby during her singing days. "I personally never saw him treat a woman the way it's been alleged, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen," she clarifies. I never saw it."

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