Bill Cosby Update: Inmate Losing Weight During 'Amazing' Prison Experience

Despite being sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars, Bill Cosby is having an “amazing experience” in prison, according to his press spokesperson Andrew Wyatt.

Wyatt told WCAU, an NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, “Yeah, he used the term amazing experience.”

Cosby is currently being held at the SCI-Phoenix prison in Philadelphia, where he was recently moved to general population from a specialized unit. Amy Worden, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, told KTLA-TV, a CW affiliate in Los Angeles, Cosby is in a single cell without a cellmate.

Since Cosby was admitted to the prison, he has undergone a transformation. He has lost weight, and is down to 195 pounds, according to Wyatt. He also wakes up each morning at 3:30 a.m. to exercise in his cell, avoids eating bread or dessert and rinses his food three times to reduce the sodium in it, Wyatt told WCAU.

“And he hasn’t drank any coffee since he’s been in there,” Wyatt told the news outlet. “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.

While Cosby is now living in general population, he is living mostly separated from the other inmates at the prison, except for the inmates that have been assigned to help him around because of his vision problems, Wyatt told CNN.

“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 told CNN.

The prison’s general population area is two stories with a central day room positioned where inmates can congregate, watch TV, or play cards, Worden told KTLA-TV. Cosby must be in his cell and accounted for seven times a day while at the prison.

Since his time in prison, Cosby has received thousands of letters as well as thousands of dollars that have been placed on his books for use at the prison, Wyatt told WCAU.

Cosby was sentenced in September for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home in 2004. His attorneys are appealing the sentence, citing 11 alleged errors that occurred during the decision to put Cosby behind bars.