Cassie has become Candide on how the consequences of his relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs She made a heavy mental and emotional tribute on her.
“I was shooting,” said the singer, 38, testified in tears on Wednesday, May 14, on her second day on the stand in the Diddy’s sexual trafficking trial. “I didn’t want to be alive at that time.”
Cassie (the real name Casandra Ventura) explained that years after the alleged abuse of Diddy, 55, she reached a breakdown while turning a clip in 2023. She shared that she had continued to have flashbacks of her time with Diddy.
After getting back from the set, she told her husband, Alex good“You can do that without me. You no longer need me.”
Cassie shared that she had then tried to get out of the door in the opposite direction, but well, 32, arrested her. (Fine and Cassie, who were married in 2019, share the girls Frankie, 5 years old, and Sunny, 4, and are currently waiting for the baby n ° 3.)
After the incident, Cassie came into rehabilitation and “traumatology therapy”. During her recovery, Cassie began to write a book on her time with Diddy as part of his therapy process. She said she had given a copy of some of the chapters she wrote to Diddy.
“I really wanted Sean to read the information,” she said from the stand. “I wanted him to understand what I had to learn to understand during this period.”
By examining the content, Cassie said she had a lawyer contacting the Diddy team to pay him $ 30 million for the rights in her history.
“I wanted to be remunerated for the time, the pain,” she said, noting that she had not received money at that time.
The same year, Cassie began her therapeutic treatment, she filed a complaint against Diddy accusing her of sexual and physical violence throughout their relationship, which lasted from time to time from 2007 to 2018. Diddy denied his claims in a statement shared by her lawyer.
“M. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and scandalous allegations, “said Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman said at the time.
One day after filing the pursuit, Diddy and Cassie settled amicably. Cassie said in her testimony on Wednesday that she had received $ 20 million from the regulation.
In May 2024, CNN published a surveillance video of the Hôtel de Diddy physically abusing Cassie in the corridor of a hotel room in 2016. He then apologized for his actions in a shared video via Instagram.
Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and accused of sex trafficking, racket conspiracy and transport to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all accusations and denied all the allegations against him.
“We are disappointed with the decision to continue what we think is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the office of the American prosecutor,” said Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo said in a press release at the time. “He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal. On his credit, Mr. Combs was only cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily moved to New York last week in anticipation of these accusations. Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he impatiently awaits his name in court. ”
Since his arrest, Diddy has taken place at the Metropolitan detention center in Brooklyn. His four deposit requests were rejected by the judge Arun Subramanian.
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