Despite her refusal, claiming that she is protected under Massachusetts’ spousal disqualification rule, protecting confidential communications between spouses, Camille Cosby will be forced to testify under oath in the trial against her husband, Bill Cosby. The defamation lawsuit was filed by seven women who accuse the comedian of sexually assaulting them.

Camille Cosby’s motion to throw out the subpoena was denied by a federal judge on Thursday of last week. Tomorrow, January 6th, she is scheduled to testify.

U.S. Judge Magistrate David Hennessey wrote in a 12-page ruling, that the arguments “do not outweigh the potential significance of Mrs. Cosby’s testimony, nor has Mrs. Cosby provided any authority that they do.”

A source close to the couple tells the New York Post that “My husband doesn’t deserve jail, but he does deserve every bit of the hell he’s going through now even though he is still pretending that this hell doesn’t exist.”

Cosby was charged last week, with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 inside of his home near Philadelphia, and released on $1 million bail.

Update: United States Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy has allowed Camille Cosby’s emergency motion for a stay.

The judge granted the motion so that Camille Cosby will be allowed to appeal the order that required her to testify against her husband, Bill Cosby. This emergency motion was filed Monday, January 4th, two days before Camille was set to be deposed. The judge approved the motion, on the grounds that going forward with the deposition would cause “irreparable injury”.

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