Related: 'No Fear': Andrea Constand Ready to Confront Cosby at Trial 
 
 Cosby, 79, is on trial for allegedly assaulting just one woman, Andrea Constand, who worked for his alma mater, Temple University. Then, in 2014, a scathing one-liner about Cosby's history by comedian Hannibal Buress went viral, bringing new attention to old allegations. Week by week, new women came forward to accuse Cosby of everything from making unwanted advances to drugging and raping them. In the deposition, Cosby said he had engaged in consensual sexual activity with Constand -- and that he had obtained Quaaludes in order to give them to women with whom he wanted to have sex. Along with his own words from the 2005 deposition, Cosby's prosecutors can also call witnesses who knew Constand before the alleged assault as well as after in an attempt to show how her behavior or habits might have changed. The "I Spy" actor, who says glaucoma has left him legally blind, does not intend to take the stand. In the coming days, Andrea Constand will take the witness stand at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial and give a sworn account of what happened between them at his Pennsylvania home one night in 2004. They called Canadian police the next day — and then they called Cosby, who told police he assured them that there was no "penile penetration." A high-school standout in her native Canada, Constand was recruited by the University of Arizona and went on to play pro ball in Italy before taking a job as the director of operations for the women's team at Temple University. Cosby has portrayed the encounter as consensual, saying he gave Constand two Benadryl pills to help her relax. She described them as three oblong blue tablets that he said were herbal and encouraged her to wash down with red wine. She told police that she felt "frozen" and "paralyzed" and did not consent to the touching. Public outrage mounted, which put pressure on the Montgomery County District Attorney's office outside Philadelphia to press charges while it still could. Marta Iwanek / AP file 
 
 The suit was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed sum, and the scandal faded away. Cosby's problems went from mere embarrassment, ridicule, and professional isolation to potential criminal liability after Constand's 2005 civil suit against him was unsealed in July 2015. "I don't know how she's prepping for it but I know she has the core values and ability to tell the truth and not stammer and not second-guess herself. I think a lot of survivors see a lot of people bravely stepping into a public arena with a high-profile alleged assailant, and they think that they can take on one where the stakes aren't quite so high.
– Bill Cosby's trial for allegedly assaulting Andrea Constand begins Monday, and at least one member of his former TV family will reportedly be watching from the sidelines, per NBC News. Keshia Knight Pulliam, 38, who played little Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show, is expected to be in the Norristown, Pa., courthouse to watch the proceedings against her 79-year-old former boss, with Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt telling People that Pulliam won't be there to "proclaim guilt or innocence," but simply "to finally hear the truth for herself." Wyatt says Cosby's wife on the show, Phylicia Rashad, will also appear in the courtroom at some point, though the New York Daily News says it has been told that a Rashad appearance Monday is "unlikely" because she's working. Reports of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played son Theo Huxtable, attending are similarly being bandied about. The New York Times offers an overview of what to expect during the trial—"perhaps America's highest profile celebrity trial since that of OJ Simpson"—including expected lines of evidence, the Cosby legal team's anticipated strategy, and some juror information. CNN says the trial has come down to a "he said-she said" scenario, with one other alleged victim expected to testify against Cosby in addition to Constand. "What Cosby is hoping for is that the jury forgets about the other 48 [alleged victims]," a Fordham criminal law professor notes. Meanwhile, Constand herself is reportedly ready to face intense grilling on the witness stand. "There's no trepidation, no fear," a close friend who's also one of Cosby's alleged victims tells NBC. "She used to play basketball and she prepared for those games like nobody else and that is what she has done here." (Vice calls the trial a "test for America.")