Cassie testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her near end of their relationship
After hours of questioning, the singer was in tears as she recounted ‘horrible flashbacks’ of her time with the hip hop mogul
Casandra Ventura, former partner of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testified on Wednesday that the music mogul raped her near the end of their decade-plus relationship that included routine physical abuse and left her with post-traumatic stress and suicidal thoughts.
Ventura, the singer widely known as “Cassie”, returned to the witness box in the sex trafficking trial against her ex for another marathon day of questioning from prosecutors who accuse Combs of heading a criminal sex ring.
The hours of questioning finished with Ventura, who is eight months pregnant with her third child, in tears as she recounted “horrible flashbacks” of her time with Combs – they stopped seeing each other in 2018 – that left her telling her husband years later that she was contemplating suicide.
“I didn’t want to be alive any more at that point,” she told the courtroom.
“I couldn’t take the pain that I was in any more,” the emotional Ventura said, adding that her husband, celebrity fitness trainer Alex Fine, stopped her from any action.
The 2023 episode prompted her to seek professional rehabilitation help.