"Look me in the eyes ... Do you remember me? Do you remember me?" Heidi Thomas, on the one question she has for Bill Cosby, 30 years later.
Three decades after what? By this point, we're guessing you can fill in the blanks without us even saying it, but Thomas says Cosby sexually assaulted her.
Heidi Thomas' allegation, revealed to CNN, is a secret she's carried since 1984, but is eerly similar to other tales of Cosby drugging and raping women.
Cosby's attorney has called the spate of sexual assault accusations against him "ridiculous," but a growing number of women clearly feel otherwise.
Helen Gumpel. Chloe Goins. Janice Dickinson. Beverly Johnson. Carla Ferrigno, Michelle Hurd, Tamara Green, Therese Serignese and Linda Traitz.
And on and on and on it has gone.
Thomas' account dates back to 1984. Then an aspiring actress known as Heidi Johnson, her agent suggested she try modeling in addition to acting.
One day, a phone call came in to her agency regarding a "very important person in the industry" who was "looking for young talent that he can mentor."
She says her agent told her that she needed to fly out to Reno, Nevada, because Bill Cosby wanted to work with her, to coach her and help her act.
Cosby was performing at Harrah's Hotel and Casino, the agency said, and he would probably be doing the coaching in his hotel suite at the resort.
However, when she was picked up at the airport in Reno, she questioned the driver because she saw the city lights behind her as they drove away.
A postcard from the airport showed Harrah's as being in the middle of town. The driver said Cosby was actually staying at a house outside Reno.
Thomas says Cosby met her at the door of the sprawling house, and began coaching her, asking her to do a cold read of a person who was intoxicated.
Cosby wasn't impressed. Thomas didn't drink much. "How are you ever going play an intoxicated person ... if you've never been drunk?" she says he told her.
She says Cosby wanted her to relax, and he gave her a glass of Chablis. Thomas admits that her memory of the next few hours is a little bit "foggy."
Thomas says when she woke up, Cosby was next to her in bed, naked and "forcing himself in my mouth." She says she felt like she wanted to throw up.
Soon after, Cosby was on top of her again and referring to himself in the third person, creepily saying, "I'm your friend ... your friend is gonna (ejaculate) again."
Sick.
The End.
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Rather than get angry, Thomas says, she made excuses and asked herself, "What's happened? Why am I here? Why is he naked? What did I say? What did I do?"
Thomas says she stormed out and slammed the door, then apologized for being "rude." The next thing she can recall is riding with Cosby to his show.
She doesn't remember much more from the four-day trip, and for three decades, felt that perhaps she had somehow brought this all upon herself.
Then the floodgates opened late last year with countless other claims by women about Cosby. You can read more of Thomas' accusations on CNN.
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