Cassie bought candid about how the aftermath of her relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs took a heavy psychological and emotional toll on her.
“I used to be spinning out,” the singer, 38, tearfully testified on Wednesday, Might 14, throughout her second day on the stand in Diddy’s intercourse trafficking trial. “I didn’t wish to be alive anymore at that time.”
Cassie (actual identify Casandra Ventura) defined that years after the alleged abuse by Diddy, 55, she hit a breaking level whereas taking pictures a music video in 2023. She shared that she stored having flashbacks from her time with Diddy.
After coming house from the set, she informed her husband, Alex Fantastic, “You are able to do this with out me. You don’t want me anymore.”
Cassie shared that she then tried to stroll out the door and into oncoming visitors however Fantastic, 32, stopped her. (Fantastic and Cassie, who tied the knot in 2019, share daughters Frankie, 5, and Sunny, 4, and are at the moment anticipating child No. 3.)
Following the incident, Cassie entered rehab and “trauma remedy.” Throughout her restoration, Cassie started writing a ebook about her time with Diddy as a part of her remedy course of. She claimed that she gave a duplicate of a few of the chapters she wrote to Diddy.
“I actually needed Sean to learn the knowledge,” she mentioned from the stand. “I needed him to grasp what I needed to be taught to grasp over that interval.”
Upon reviewing the content material, Cassie claimed that she had a lawyer attain out to Diddy’s crew to pay her $30 million for the rights to her story.
“I needed to be compensated for the time, the ache,” she mentioned, noting that she didn’t obtain any cash at the moment.
The identical 12 months Cassie started her therapeutic remedy, she filed a lawsuit towards Diddy accusing him of sexual and bodily abuse all through their relationship, which lasted on and off from 2007 to 2018. Diddy denied her claims in an announcement shared by his legal professional.
“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,” Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman mentioned on the time.
Someday after the swimsuit was filed, Diddy and Cassie settled out of courtroom. Cassie acknowledged throughout her Wednesday testimony that she acquired $20 million from the settlement.
In Might 2024, CNN revealed a resort surveillance video of Diddy bodily abusing Cassie within the hallway of a resort room in 2016. He later apologized for his actions in a video shared by way of Instagram.
Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He pleaded not responsible to all prices and has denied all the allegations towards him.
“We’re disillusioned with the choice to pursue what we consider is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace,” Diddy’s legal professional Marc Agnifilo mentioned in an announcement on the time. “He’s an imperfect particular person, however he’s not a felony. To his credit score Mr. Combs has been nothing however cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York final week in anticipation of those prices. Please reserve your judgment till you could have all of the details. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he seems ahead to clearing his identify in courtroom.”
Since his arrest, Diddy has been held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn. His 4 requests for bail had been denied by Decide Arun Subramanian.
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