BILL COSBY FALLOUT: 'The world believes these women'

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Disgraced comic Bill Cosby doesn’t appear to understand the difference between not being guilty and getting sprung on a technicality.

Cosby, 83, walked out of prison on Wednesday following a shocking Pennsylvania high-court ruling overturning his sexual assault conviction.

He served almost three years of a three- to 10-year sentence for drugging and sexually assaulting Toronto woman Andrea Constand who called the decision “disappointing”.

Now, the brazen former Cosby Show star and the man once called “America’s Dad” is vowing a return to the stage so he can move forward with “telling his story”.

The Fat Albert creator and shill for Jello watched his family-friendly reputation obliterated as a tidal wave of sex allegations turned his name to mud.

“He’s excited… He told me, ‘Andrew, my heart is racing,’ ” his pint-sized publicist, Andrew Wyatt told the New York Post.

“He said, ‘I just heard the inmates knocking on the walls and the cell and said ‘Bill, you’re free Bill! You’re free, Bill!’ He said, ‘I didn’t know what was going on.’ ”

While Cosby was congratulated by the likes of Terrence Howard and former co-star Phylicia Rashad, not everyone was buying the innocent Bill piece.

“Many may perceive this ruling as he got away with it and that’s dangerous,” Laura Beth Nielsen, chair of the sociology department at Northwestern University and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“But I think the world believes these women, so I think it could be seen as sort of a technicality, a mistake.”

One of the prosecutors that sent Cosby to jail scoffed at the comic’s suggestion he was prosecuted because he was a victim of systemic racism.

“I’m disgusted by that when you take it in conjunction with his other statements such as that this overturned conviction is justice for Black Americans,” Kristen Feden told MSNBC Thursday.

“As a Black female it makes me very sick to my stomach that he is exploiting Black Americans’ thirst for justice.”

And Cosby’s ordeal is far from over.

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“Mr. Cosby is not home free,” said famed feminist lawyer Gloria Allred, who has represented 33 of Cosby’s accusers.

One problem Cosby faces is that of one Judy Huth, an Allred client. She claims Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was just 15-years-old in 1974.

For decades, Cosby was a notorious sexual player and has admitted offering quaaludes — a sedative — to women he wanted to have sex with.

But he has always contended the sex was consensual.

On Thursday, Cosby enjoyed his first meal of freedom: Salmon, collard greens and a “crunchy” pizza with fresh basil and mozzarella.

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