P Diddy’s trial has continued as ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura returned to court to testify against the rapper, where she alleged that he raped her, forced her to partake in Freak Offs and abused her
P Diddy’s trial continues as pregnant Cassie Ventura spoke in court once more.
The singer is a key witness in the trial and returned to court on Wednesday 14 May to continue testifying.
Cassie, who is currently eight-and-a-half months pregnant, began by revisiting the hotel CCTV footage from 2016 that shows Combs dragging her from an elevator down a corridor.
Ventura said: “I didn’t get hit. I remember it hitting the wall. He was yelling at me and threw it at me,” before claiming Combs told her “she wasn’t going to leave him there”.
Two photos of Cassie showed her with a swollen lip and a black eye underneath her sunglasses. The star had taken the pictures herself following the alleged assault.
Text exchanges between the former couple were also shared with the court. Cassie told Combs: “You’re sick for thinking it’s OK to do what you did to me,” and told him that she “had a black eye”.
She was also asked about Combs’ requests to hire escorts and claimed: “That was just my job, really. It was expected of me.”
Cassie claimed that if she refused to participate in a Freak Off session “it would be a problem” and the pair would “end up fighting”. The singer stated that violence was “always a concern if we weren’t agreeing on something”.
A 2016 text showed Combs asking Cassie to have a “proper” Freak Off without ketamine. She later claimed that she preferred to use the drug because she found the effects “very dissociative”.
She claimed that Combs had also previously threatened to release explicit videos of Cassie partaking in the Freak Off sessions.
Cassie told the court: “I feared for my career, my family. It is horrible and disgusting, no one should do that to anyone. It could ruin everything I worked for, make me look like a s***. I wasn’t supposed to be on those videos. I didn’t want to be in them.”
She told the court she “felt trapped” and claimed to have asked Combs to delete the videos, but later found them still on his phone.
Cassie also claimed that she suffered with persistent urinary tract infections due to her involvement in the Freak Offs, but alleged that she was forced to take part despite “horrible” pain.
She claimed that Combs had “hit her on the side of the head” and kicked her during some of the Freak Off sessions. Cassie allegedly tried to leave if she felt “unsafe” but Combs or one of his employees would find her and bring her back.
Cassie also claimed that it would be “impossible to know” how many Freak Offs she was involved in but estimated in the “hundreds”. The singer also alleged that Combs raped her when they were supposed to have a “closure conversation” after they split.
The Me & You songstress claimed they went for dinner before he took her back to her house, came inside and “raped her on the living room floor”.
“I remember crying and saying no. It was fast, his eyes were black, he wasn’t himself. It was like somebody taking something from you.”
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