A spokesman for Bill Cosby has said the convicted sex offender is having an "amazing experience" in jail.
In an interview with WCAU in Philadelphia, Andrew Wyatt described how the disgraced television star was dealing with his time behind bars, having been found guilty of sexual assault in April 2018.
In September, Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. Constand was one of numerous women who accused the comedian of similar crimes, which he allegedly committed throughout his long career.
"He used the term amazing experience," Wyatt said. Cosby, who is being held at the State Correctional Institution—Phoenix around 30 miles outside of Philadelphia, was moved into the prison's general population two weeks ago, CNN reported. Before that, he was being held in a single cell adjacent to the prison infirmary.
Cosby does not have a cellmate and speaks to his wife Camille on the phone three times each day for three minutes at a time. Camille has not yet visited Cosby in prison.
"Right now I'm his only visitor outside of his attorneys, and that's the way he wants it," Wyatt explained. "She has not visited him. He does not want her to visit him."
Wyatt said Cosby has lost weight while in prison thanks to a new exercise and diet program, waking up at 3:30 a.m. each day to work out in his cell. He is forgoing bread and desert, and "hasn't drank any coffee since he's been in there," Wyatt explained.
"Now the funny part about it [is] Mrs. Cosby's been trying to stop him from drinking coffee for 55 years and it took this to stop him from drinking coffee."
"He's mentally strong. He's just a strong man," Wyatt added. Last week, the spokesman noted that Cosby has little interaction with the facility's other inmates. "He does not eat in the area with other residents, he does not have a cellmate, and he does not exercise with other residents," Wyatt said. Cosby does have a helper who helps him move around the prison due to his vision problems.
Amy Worden, a press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, said the area in which Cosby is being held is centered around a "day room" where inmates can socialize, watch television and play cards. As for all other general population prisoners, Cosby must be accounted for in his cell seven times each day.
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