Bill Cosby is facing three charges of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University basketball staffer Andrea Constand. "I wanted it to stop".
Constand sued Cosby in 2005 after prosecutors initially decided not to charge him.
Cosby faces a 10-year prison term if convicted.
His lawyers tried to poke holes in Constand's story, citing differences between her courtroom testimony and the accounts she gave to police and in a lawsuit in 2005.
Gianna Constand said she confronted Cosby by phone during a two-hour call in which she said he "surrendered" to her about the sexual encounter and told her he "was sick". Prior to the start of proceedings, she approached the defense table, where Cosby rose and warmly greeted her. She says that's when Cosby sexually assaulted her.
She replied by saying she trusted him and didn't think he'd take things any further.
She told the jury she started feeling woozy after about 20 minutes, with blurred vision, slurred words and legs that felt like rubber.
"He admitted he was a sick man", she said, as the 79-year-old entertainer, sat with his head bowed and shook his head vigorously. Constand says the mood was friendly and the room light enough to eat.
Gianna Constand said she received several phone calls from Cosby, including one in which he shared lewd details of his encounter with Andrea Constand and apologized.
Some 60 women have come forward to say Cosby sexually violated them, all but destroying his nice-guy image, but the statute of limitations for prosecution had run out in almost every case.
But when she did an in-person interview with Cheltenham detectives three days later, she told them it happened "between mid January and mid February 2004" at Cosby's home, and the pair had not gone out to dinner with others beforehand, Constand confirmed on the stand.
Ms Constand managed the women's basketball team at Temple, Cosby's alma mater, while he was a high-profile trustee.
"My truth was to be here and to be supportive, and it's not always easy to do what you feel is truthful and what you feel is right when there's so much controversy. And I felt him take my hand and place it on his penis and move it back and forth".
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But Constand said Wednesday she was merely returning his messages. Another time, she said, he placed his hand on her thigh. "I just pray for all parties involved because this isn't a great situation no matter what side of the coin you're on".
"I don't know what that means", Ms Constand said.
Constand replied, "I was very nervous", and "I wasn't able to recall every particular moment that I had seen Mr. Cosby in order of dates". Cosby's lawyers wasted no time in continuing to besmirch Constand's character. She felt "terrible" about it, she said, especially when her mother brought Cosby some Canadian souvenirs.
"I was very concerned", she continued. But at the time I did not have the courage to tell my family.
Agrusa also spent a painstaking hour going over Constand's phone records, hoping to show she changed her mind about the date she says Cosby assaulted her.
"She continued to do her job", Constand's lawyer, Dolores Troiani, said outside court. Cosby then laid her on the couch and assaulted her sexually, she alleged.
She said she took two sips of the tea, nibbled the top of the muffin and left.
On Tuesday, Johnson's mother, Pattrice Sewell, bolstered her daughter's story.
A few weeks later, Sewell said, Johnson disclosed that she had woken up next to Cosby in bed with her clothes askew.
He asked what he could do to help, and she said all she wanted was an apology.
Wyatt - who is regularly seen at court hearings by Cosby's side, guiding him by the bicep in and out of the courthouse and helping him into his vehicle - is one of the comedian's staunchest defenders.
"I was leaving in a month, and I did not want to stir up any trouble, and for it to look negative to not talk with a trustee", Constand said. The lawsuit was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed sum.
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