Camille Cosby has been married to her husband Bill Cosby for 52 years, and earlier this week was forced by law to give a deposition in the case against him. Â
For those of us that don’t understand legal terms, a deposition is just a type of testimony that takes place outside of a court room. With decades of marriage between her and Bill, Camille’s testimony is probably jam packed with information.
No biggie, right? Spending seven hours answering questions about your husband’s sexual misconduct must be a breeze!
For the past three years, we’ve heard numerous allegations made against Bill Cosby, with over 50 women saying that he sexually assaulted them. The civil lawsuit involves only seven of these women, against whom Cosby filed a countersuit in December. Thus, we end up here, with Camille Cosby forced to give a deposition against her husband, even though her lawyers have been trying to fight it.
According to ABC News, the U.S. District Judge in charge of the case, Mark Mastrioanni, decided that Camille would not have to answer any questions that would be protected by Massachusetts’s marital disqualification rule, which protects a person’s right to not have to disclose intimate conversations they had with their spouse.
Throughout the seven-hour deposition, Camille only actually spent about two and half hours answering questions, since so much time was taken to determine what she could and couldn’t be asked as Bill Cosby’s wife and business partner, according to USA Today.
Camille has always stood in constant support of her husband, and it will be interesting to see what parts of her deposition will become public knowledge.Â