Andrea Constand walks to the courtroom during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on June 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)

Defense lawyers questioning Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand spent part of Monday zeroing in on her financial situation, in an apparent effort to make economic self-interest more central to the case than during Cosby's initial trial last year.

Cosby is being retried on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, based on Constand's allegations that he sexually assaulted her in 2004. Constand continued her testimony Monday morning, after a full day of testimony April 13.

At Cosby's first trial, his defense lawyers spent much of their time on cross-examination looking at Constand's phone records, suggesting that her continued contact with Cosby after the alleged assault indicated a romantic relationship.

Tom Mesereau briefly touched on the phone records, particularly pointing to calls between Constand and Cosby on Valentine's Day, several weeks after the alleged assault. But he focused a more significant portion of his cross-examination on matters related to Constand's financial situation, and her civil settlement with Cosby.

Judge Steven T. O'Neill allowed certain evidence about the settlement to be used at retrial, but it was not used during the 2017 trial.

Pointing to a collection of emails to and from Constand's address, Mesereau asked a number of questions about Constand's participation in what she called an “internet networking” business. Mesereau referred to the business as a “pyramid scheme” based on Constand's emails in which she called it a “pyramid.”

Later, prosecutor Kristen Gibbons Feden read Constand the definition of a pyramid scheme and asked Constand whether that accurately described the business she was involved in. Constand said no.

Mesereau also asked a number of questions about Constand's $3.38 million confidential settlement with Cosby in 2006, and her agreement not to discuss the case. He asked her several times why she was testifying in the criminal case, but prosecutors objected to those questions before Constand could answer.

Mesereau asked Constand why she would agree to the settlement, and to keep silent about the arrangement, but she didn't say money was the reason.

“It was a very painstaking process for me and my family. It tore my family apart, and we just wanted it over,” Constand said.

After cross-examination, Feden asked Constand to read from the confidential settlement agreement, particularly a portion stating that speaking with law enforcement pursuant to a criminal investigation would be an exception from the agreement.

Mesereau also asked Constand about Marguerite Jackson, an academic adviser at Temple. Jackson, according to court documents, has alleged that Constand told her about a plan to bring false accusations about sexual assault against a celebrity in order to make money.

Mesereau asked Constand if she ever had such a conversation with Jackson, and Constand said no.

Cosby's lawyers have sought to admit testimony from Jackson at the retrial, and O'Neill has said he will allow it.

During opening arguments at retrial, Mesereau told the jury that Constand only brought accusations against Cosby in order to make money.

Also Monday, jurors heard from Constand's mother, Gianna Constand, who testified about her daughter's return to Toronto in 2005 after the alleged assault. Andrea Constand appeared to be depressed, her mother testified.

Gianna Constand testified about her calls with Cosby after she learned of the alleged assault. During those calls, she testified, Cosby admitted to the sexual contact and that he gave Andrea Constand pills, but he would not name the drug.

“I was very combative, very angry, very rude, very confronting, because he was trying to manipulate the conversation,” Gianna Constand said. “As I said to him, I just want the truth.”

Cross-examination between defense attorney Kathleen Bliss and Gianna Constand became contentious.

Bliss asked Constand whether the depression she said she noticed in her daughter could have been due to other factors, instead of the alleged assault.

“Are you trying to convince me?” Constand responded. “You're wrong.”

Constand accused Bliss at one point of trying to confuse her with her questions, and expressed annoyance with the lawyer's tone.

“Why are you asking me in that voice? You were just nice a minute ago,” Constand said in response to one of Bliss' questions.