[Banfield:] The numbers may be growing but the stories are pretty much staying the same. A private encounter, a drink, or a pill, or numerous drinks or pill, incapacitation and then sexual assault, none of it ever proven, none of it even formally alleged beyond one civil lawsuit that was settled out of court a decade ago. But the stories just keep coming, including the one you're about to hear that predates all of the others. The accuser spoke to our Alisyn Camerota.
[Kristina Ruehli, Alleged Cosby Assault Victim:] I am a very woman that's very comfortable financially. I'm really happy. I have everything. I don't want his money or anyone else's.
[Alisyn Camerota, Tv Journalist:] So, then why are you coming forward?
[Ruehli:] Two reasons. One, I don't like to see these other women who had similar experiences called liars and trash in the media, when I know that I can speak for them. And the second reason, it was that it might encourage others, [inaudible], well, these are all new that I didn't know about and there may be dozens or hundreds of other victims.
[Unidentified Female:] 71-year-old Kristina Ruehli, says her encounter with comedian Bill Cosby took place in 1965 when she was 22 years old, making hers the earliest known alleged case. She was working as a secretary at a talent agency when she says Cosby invited her and several coworkers to a party at his house.
[Camerota:] You get to the party for the beginning of what you think will be a party. And he prepares a cocktail for you?
[Ruehli:] Yes, bourbon and seven, that was sort of the standard thing for me to drink at that time.
[Camerota:] You have two drinks.
[Ruehli:] I had two drinks that I'm clear about.
[Camerota:] And then what happened?
[Ruehli:] I don't remember a thing. I It went blank. When in you're in that kind a foggy state, you don't think of anything about that. You have drunk too much. So, I must have passed out again, because when awaken again, I found myself on bed.
[Camerota:] And then what happened?
[Ruehli:] He was there. He had his shirt off and I believe he had his pants off. It's pretty groggy. And he had his hand on the back of my head.
[Unidentified Female:] She says, he then tried to force her to perform oral sex.
[Ruehli:] And so, I lifted my head away. I think it surprised him. I lifted my head away and pulled myself away immediately. And I went into the bathroom and I throw up and I know I throw up a couple a times. When I finished, I came out and he was gone.
[Unidentified Female:] Kristina believes it could have been worst. That Cosby could have raped her. A few months after the alleged incident, she says she told her boyfriend at a time what happened.
[Camerota:] Did you tell anyone else other than your boyfriend?
[Ruehli:] I might have. I might have but it's something that sort of may be you would tell you boyfriend but not. Girlfriends? Things were different. You talk about different things. You didn't'talk about date rape with a girlfriend.
[Camerota:] Did it ever occur to you to go the police?
[Ruehli:] No, he had not injured me. What had he done? He had exposed himself to me, but this was '60s. And it never occurred to me to go the police. I just went on with my life.
[Camerota:] People are skeptical.
[Ruehli:] I know.
[Camerota:] Did Bill Cosby did this to you and to the other women? Bill Cosby was a likable...
[Ruehli:] He was likable.
[Camerota:] Back in '70s, '60s and '70s. So, why did he have to resort to drugging women?
[Ruehli:] I don't think he's very attractive or sexy. I guess that's just my viewpoint. Maybe he is inadequate inside. But I've heard that this was a routine of his, all the time. Rape is about power not sex. Rape is about anger not sex. And until he had this series, "I Spy" which was a series that he had then, he was just a comedian. And the power that he found in his hands, he abused.
[Unidentified Female:] In 2005, 40 years later, Kristina read about another alleged victim, Andrea Constand. She'd filed a lawsuit against Cosby and Kristina wanted to help, becoming one of the 13 Jane Does in the case, which was settled for an undisclosed amount with Ms. Constand.
[Camerota:] So, you basically volunteer your services, your memory to this other lawsuit but you did not stand to gain financially from being a part of this lawsuit?
[Ruehli:] Oh no. And I didn't need it, I didn't need the aggravation but I thought what's the worst thing that can happen to me that somebody calls me a liar.
[Camerota:] I want to read you a statement from Bill Cosby's attorney. "Lawsuits are filled against people in the public eye every day. There has never been a shortage of lawyers willing to represent people with claims against rich, powerful men, so it makes no sense that not one of these new women who just came forward for the first time, now ever asserted a legal claim back at the time they allege they have been sexually assaulted."
[Ruehli:] Well, lawyers can be hired by rich powerful men to speak for them when they are silent. That's my answer.
[Unidentified Female:] Cosby's attorneys did not provide CCN with the response specific to Kristina's claims.
[Camerota:] What do you think is going to happen next? Do you think that there's such deem now that's been created by these more than dozen women, yourself included who've come forward that he must respond?
[Ruehli:] I think more will come forward. Whatever you follow here it doesn't end with me.
[Camerota:] Do you think it's time for Bill Cosby to come forward and say something?
[Ruehli:] I do. I wish he had courage. I wish he had the balls. Who would want 15 minutes of this kind of not saying shame? So, I'm here not that I think I'm this great courageous character person but to say to the others who have come forward and who I hope will come forward. It's great It takes courage.
[Banfield:] Bill Cosby, himself, spoke with a Florida newspaper over the weekend. And I've got a quote. I'm going to read to you, he said, "I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn't have to answer to innuendos. People should fact check. People shouldn't have to go through that and shouldn't answer to innuendos." We'll be right back.