1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: and everybody. 3 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that. 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: Right, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren de Rosa and 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren Rosa. 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: we're gonna get right on into the Latest. We won't 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: do it behind the scenes of the grind check in today. 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we should because we did just 11 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: get a feature in Forbes, So we're gonna check it 12 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: behind the scenes to. 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 2: The grind world real quick. 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: If you guys did not catch any of my social 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: media postings, I'm Laura l Rosa everywhere, especially on Instagram. 16 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: I posted an article from Forbes that you guys should 17 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: go check out. Shout out to Jasmine Brawley, who was 18 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: the journalist that interviewed me for Forbes, and we talked 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: about radio and you know, the conversation that a lot 20 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: of people like to have, especially with me because you know, 21 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: I'm new to radio, but radio has done so much 22 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: for me over this last year two years with the 23 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club about radio and is it a dying industry 24 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: or not. So we did the interview there and we 25 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: talked a lot about, you know, just what my process 26 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: is and you know how you know, from the Breakfast 27 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 1: Club to the latest with laying the rods of the 28 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: podcast and the partnership with Black Effect Podcast Network, how 29 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: we figure out like what content fits wear and honestly 30 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: just how radio has helped me amplify all the things 31 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: that I'm doing. So please, if you have not already 32 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: go and checked that out. Just google Lauren the Rows 33 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: of Forbes. It's also, you know, I posted some of 34 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: the quotes on my Instagram. I'll have the link on 35 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,199 Speaker 1: my bidio by the time this goes live. 36 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 2: Go check it out. 37 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: It so also on my Twitter and my Facebook to 38 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: us everywhere if you haven't seen it. So I'm feeling 39 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: good about that. But you know, with notoriety comes more responsibility. 40 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: I feel like every time there's an article published about me, 41 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: what I do, how I report, you know how I 42 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: like to fact check as much as I can and 43 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, get some clarity and get at bottom of things. 44 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: More responsibility it is to do that, And I know 45 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: I always say no one can be perfect, but I 46 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: am striving for it because with every article comes more eyes. 47 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: So here we are the latest with Lanna Rosa. Let's 48 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,359 Speaker 1: get right on into the topics. So up first in 49 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: the latest Diddy we've been you know, preparing. We are 50 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 1: literally less than five days away from October third, twenty 51 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: twenty five, which is the day that Sean Ditty Combs 52 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: will be sentenced here in New York City. Now here's 53 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: the thing about this sentencing. Diddy's team has been asking 54 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: for a very long time for charges to be acquitted 55 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: for What they're basically saying is that either Diddy should 56 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: be allowed to go home and walk free of all charges. 57 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: There's two counts of the prostitution or the traveling in 58 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: with the intent to engage in prostitution. So either all 59 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: of the charges should be dropped, one of the charges 60 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: or some of the things, or Diddy should be given 61 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: a new trial. So as far as bond, and we've 62 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: reported it here several times, the judge has not ever 63 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: sided with the fact that he believes that Diddy is 64 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: not a danger to the community enough makes the best 65 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: decisions and it's just a law abiding citizen enough to 66 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: even be trusted to be let out on bond. 67 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 2: Now, that's pretty telling. 68 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: And I've said here too that the way that the 69 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 1: judge rules on this acquittal can tell you a lot 70 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: about what Diddy might. 71 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 2: Be looking at when it comes to what his sentence 72 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 2: may be. 73 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: As of right now, for the two counts of the 74 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: Men Act, which Diddy was found guilty on transporting mail 75 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: prostitutes across state lines, Diddy is looking at up to 76 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: twenty years behind bars, ten years per charge, right, twenty 77 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: years total. Diddy has been asking this, the judge has 78 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: yet to decide it. The last time we were in court, 79 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: which was only a few days ago, we still have 80 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: not heard anything back. And I reached out trying to 81 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: get a better understanding from people close to the court 82 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: who would know when are we going to hear from 83 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: the judge? Like what does it mean that this acquittal 84 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: conversation has not fully been answered? And we're what like 85 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: two maybe three days away from the sentencing, three nights 86 00:03:58,240 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: for nights and a wake up, And from what I 87 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: was told, it doesn't mean anything the acquittal conversation and 88 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: whether the judge rules to do that not do it 89 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: allow a retrial or not allow retrial? That could come 90 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: after the sentencing, so that's not even something that they're 91 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: holding out the hope for now. Where they're focused on 92 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: is trying to get a sentence that leans in Ditty's favor. 93 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: But prosecutors say they want him to do eleven years 94 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: in some months and also pay a five hundred thousand 95 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: dollars fine two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per count. 96 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: And boy, is Diddy Up against a lot because the 97 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: main thing that is cited here in the documents filed 98 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: by the government is what the judge kind of not 99 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: even kind of. I was in the courtroom, and the 100 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: judge specifically pointed to the fact that leading up to 101 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: Diddy's arrest, like I mean, the week leading into the 102 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: day that the FEDS picked Diddy up off of the street, 103 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: Diddy was still engaged in a lot of the acts 104 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: that led a jury to find him guilty of the 105 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: two men acts that he's facing right now, and a 106 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: lot of the acts that led a judge to believe 107 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: he shouldn't be out on bail, if even just awaiting trial. 108 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: And when I talk about these acts, I'm talking talking 109 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: about from what the judge has said, they deemed Diddy dangerous, 110 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: not just because of the Cassie video and seeing him 111 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: stumper out in that video, but in this document, the 112 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: sentencing document that the government has submitted. It is over 113 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty pages. Try to read as much 114 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: as I could before I came in here, so we 115 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: will be doing an update, and I owe you guys 116 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: like a thorough breakdown of all of this before we 117 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: go into sentencing, because I want you guys to be 118 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: as in the know as you can so that our 119 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: sentencing conversation is a lot easier. 120 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 2: But everything that I. 121 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: Read points to did he making decisions knowing that he 122 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: was under federal and investigation. The prosecutors are heavily pointing 123 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: to that, and that only makes sense strategy wise. That's 124 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: smart for them because they already know the judge believes that. 125 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: And if you're leaning on that and the judge already 126 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: believes that, you can almost assume the judge is going 127 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: to rule in the favor where he's been having conversation 128 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: up until this point, which is you can't operate as 129 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: a as a man in the community making good decisions. 130 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: We gave you that chance. You were a waiting to 131 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: come here for trial, and these are other things that happen. 132 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: They specifically point out. So after the Cassie beating video 133 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: broke v CNN back in Man twenty twenty four, did 134 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: he got online. He posted some statements and in the 135 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: statements in the video, he said this. 136 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 3: It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in 137 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 3: your life. Sometimes you gotta do that. I was duck. 138 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 3: I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I made no excuses. 139 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 3: My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full 140 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 3: responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I 141 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 3: was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusting now 142 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 3: when and I sought our professional help and to go 143 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 3: into therapy. I'm going to rehab. Had asked God for 144 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,799 Speaker 3: his mercy and grace. I'm so sorry, but I'm committed 145 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 3: to be a better man easin every day. I'm not 146 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 3: asking for forgiveness. I'm truly sorry. 147 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: Now they call this ironic because they're like, you said 148 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 1: you were a better man, that you would talk to God, 149 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: and you've been doing the work, only to find out 150 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: some months later you get into it with Jane, and 151 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: I will say in court. Jane said on the stand 152 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: herself that she did physically put her hands on Diddy first, 153 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,559 Speaker 1: But the prosecutors point back to, you know, him getting 154 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: into it physically with Jane, which led to him putting 155 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 1: his hands on her. Not the same way as Cassie. 156 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: But you know, it's the same instances domestic violence either way. 157 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: But this was different, and Diddy Seam points out this 158 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: was different because he was hit first. 159 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 2: In this circumstance. 160 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: But prosecutors pointed out he busted down five doors trying 161 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: to get to her throughout this, you know what they 162 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: call an attack? 163 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 2: Right? 164 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: How is he upstanding citizen? How can we trust that 165 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: he will come home and do all the things he 166 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: needs to do and really understand that you're not bigger 167 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: than the program, because he was waiting to come and 168 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: see you, judge, and he couldn't even understand that did 169 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: He has really gotten himself into some trouble. And I 170 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: think a lot of people keep having conversations about what 171 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: does and does not pertain to these charges in the 172 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: cases that the prosecutors are submitting in the same sentencing 173 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: conversation to show that there are people who have been 174 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: placed behind bars for ten plus years for these same charges, 175 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: what they're leaning on is that it's not just simply 176 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: prostitution on his face. It's the use of hower, the 177 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: use of previously applied force that scares these victims, as 178 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: the prosecution alleges they are, scares them into having to 179 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: do whatever is placed before them. And because of this, 180 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: we cannot trust that this man talking about Ditty will 181 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: not come home and fill himself again and feel his power. 182 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: How do we know that it's been only but so 183 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: much time now. In addition to all of this, there 184 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: are a ton of letters that have been submitted with 185 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: these filings from people involved in the case, people who've 186 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,719 Speaker 1: testified in the case. It's like the opposite of a 187 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: character statement. So these statements are speaking to why people 188 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: would be scared to tell if Diddy. 189 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 2: Is able to come home in any short amount of time. 190 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: So you have Deontay Nash, who is a stylist friend 191 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: of Ditty's, who was styling Cassie. 192 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 2: Who submitted a letter. 193 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: He also recently filed a lawsuit against Ditty an alleged 194 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: sexual claims, and you. 195 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 2: Know various things. 196 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: You also have Cassie who submitted a letter which again, 197 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: if you was their star witness while on the stand 198 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: and majority of the decision making from the judge has 199 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: been based around Cassie and the incident that occurred there 200 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: and what Diddy applying fear looks like in this situation 201 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: and Cassie's example of that. But she says she is 202 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: still having nightmares about Diddy and urges that they lot 203 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: come up and throw away the key. So she says, 204 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: dear Judge Soubranean, I have been in a cycle of 205 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: thought and then over thought writing this letter to you. 206 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: If there's one thing I have learned from this experience, 207 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: it is that victims and survivals will never be safe. 208 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: Although I can hope for justice and accountability, I've come 209 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: to not trusting anything. I hope that your decision considers 210 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: the truth at hand that the jury fell to see. 211 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: For four days in May, while nine months pregnant with 212 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: my son, I testified in front of a packed courtroom 213 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: in the most traumatic, horrifying chapter of my life. I 214 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: testified that from age nineteen, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, 215 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: and control over my career to trap me, and over 216 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: decade of abuse, he groomed me into performing repeated sex 217 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: acts with hired male sex workers. During multi day freak alls, 218 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: which occurred nearly every week, I was forced into laingerie 219 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: and heels, told exactly how to look, implied with drugs 220 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet. 221 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, 222 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: and days of physical and emotional exhaustion. Before he demanded 223 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: it all again. Sex acts became my full time job, 224 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: used as the only way to stay in his good graces. 225 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 2: I testified that I. 226 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: Learned to read Shuancom's signals, knowing that when he spoke 227 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: of freak alls, he was demanding them, and that refusing 228 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: meant punishment. Losing my car my phone are worse. He 229 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: controlled every part of my livelihood and threatened to destroy 230 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: my reputation by leaking sex tapes, a threat he repeated often. 231 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: His power over me eroded my independence. His power, she says, 232 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: over me eroded my independence. And that is what prosecution 233 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: is hoping that a judge takes from all of these letters, 234 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 1: but specifically this letter. His power over me eroded my 235 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: independence and sense of self until I felt I had 236 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: no choice but to submit when he was believed I 237 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: had wronged him or was not sufficiently responsive. He also 238 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: threatened people around me and those close to me, including 239 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: my family. Now Deontay Nash is stylist who was also 240 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: stilent Cassie friend of Cassie's, also formerly a friend stylast 241 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: of Diddy, also claimed this too, like a lot of 242 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: times he would get threats and things of that nature 243 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: because of what was or wasn't happening in Cassie and 244 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: Diddy's relationship, and and you know, just trying to look 245 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: out for her as a friend. I regularly worried that 246 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 1: displeasing him meant putting my family in friends safety at risk. 247 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: I testify how beyond the threats, Shawn Colmbs frequently used 248 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: violence to get his way over the nearly eleven years 249 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: we were together. Shawn Colmbs would hit me, punch me, 250 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: stomp on my face, pull my hair, and throw my 251 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: body to the ground and against the wall. 252 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: The jewelry saw pictures of bruises on my back. 253 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: They include the pictures in the sentencing package from shawnclmmes 254 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: kicking and saw the deep gash over my eye, he 255 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: calls when he slammed me into a bed frame. The 256 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: entire courtroom watched actual footage of Combs kicking and beating 257 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: me as I tried to run away. And it was 258 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: so hard watching that footage in the courtroom, like think 259 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 1: of the imagery. We're watching that CNN video and in 260 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: that video, he's literally repeatedly kicking her like she's just 261 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:25,439 Speaker 1: like they're like helpless. You're watching her, Cassie. You're watching Cassie. 262 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: Watch the video. And when I say she is so pregnant, 263 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: I mean she is like irritably pregnant, like she looked 264 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 1: like she could pop any day. She's trying to get 265 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: through it, holding back a motion. I'm like, there's no 266 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: way a jury doesn't I don't care what he gets 267 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: off on because I always felt like that Rico wasn't 268 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: gonna stick, even though I felt like they had some 269 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: parts of it, but it was in theory. I don't 270 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 1: feel like they had enough evidence. There was no way 271 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 1: in my mind after seeing that image. And I'm just 272 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: a person sitting in the courtroom. Y'all know, I wasn't 273 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: a durer duror, but after seeing that image of her, 274 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, there's no way that Diddy's team, who was great, 275 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: They've been doing great at what they're doing right. Defending 276 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: him can get that image out of a person's head. 277 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: This woman is pregnant, she is here is obviously she 278 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: does not want to be here. She's having to do 279 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: this in front of her family, in front of the media, 280 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: in front of all of these people. 281 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 2: And then we're seeing bruised. 282 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: Face and dash across the head and you know, just 283 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: swollen lips, like it was so much. I think for 284 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: about three weeks, maybe two weeks, all we did was 285 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: look at photos of her bruises from her domestic violence 286 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: and hear her recount every instance of like almost she 287 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: talked about ode in at one point and just being 288 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 1: thrown in the shower, and you know, it was a lot, 289 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: she says. The entire courtroom watched actual footage of Sean 290 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: Combs kicking me and beating me as I tried to 291 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: run away from the freak off in twenty sixteen. People 292 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: watch his footage dozens of time. See my body thrown 293 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: to the ground, my hands over my head, curled into 294 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: a fetal position to shield me from my worst blows. 295 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: The physical violence caused bruises that makeup artists pay for 296 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: by Sean Combs will cover up as well as permanent 297 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: scars all over my body, she says. 298 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: During my time with Combs, I was in a constant. 299 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: State of hyper vigilance, as I was always anticipating demands 300 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: for sex acts or otherwise fearing retribution for any perceived slight. 301 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: My descentant to substance abuse was directly correlated with his 302 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: increase control over my body, my money, my freedom, and 303 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: my free will. I use those drugs to push me 304 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: through the horrifying sex acts. I spent the last seven 305 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: years of my life slowly rebuilding myself physically, getting clean 306 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: from the drug abuse Sean Comb's force and encouraged and 307 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: mentally understanding how to live with a seemingly huge amount 308 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: of trauma. The horrors I endured drove me to have 309 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: thoughts of suicide, ones that I almost followed through on 310 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: if not for my families intervention and urging that I 311 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: seek professional care. I've been in rehab and I've taken 312 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: dozens of types of therapy to comfort myself, apartmentalized, and 313 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: cope with the horrific memories of sexual and emotional abuse 314 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: I endure for nearly ten years. While what he did 315 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: to me is always present, I am slowly learning how 316 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: to live my life free from fear and horrors I endured, 317 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: and I'm doing so fully devoted to my husband and children. 318 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: I still have nightmares and flashbacks on a regular, everyday 319 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: basis and continue to require psychological care to cope with 320 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: my past. My worries are that Sean Colmbs or his 321 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: associates will come after me and my family, and that 322 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: is my reality. I have, in fact, moved my family 323 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: out of New York, out of the New York area, 324 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: and am keeping as much of a private or qriet 325 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: life as I possibly can, because I am so scared 326 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: that if he walks free, his first action be swift 327 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: retribution towards me and any others who spoke up about 328 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: his abuse at trial. As much progress as I've made 329 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: in recovering from his abuse, I remain very much afraid 330 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: of what he is capable of doing in the malice 331 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: he undoubtedly harbors towards me for having the bravery to 332 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: tell the truth. His defense attorneys claim he is a 333 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: changed man and he wants to mentor abusers. I know 334 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: firsthand what real mentorship means, and this discuss me he 335 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: is not being truthful. I know who he is or 336 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: who he was to me, the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, 337 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: and the trafficker. And that is who he will be 338 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: as a human. He has no interest in changing or 339 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: becoming better. You will always be the same cruel, power hungry, manipulative. 340 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 2: Man that he is. 341 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: When I came out with my allegations in my civil case, 342 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: he flatly denied them again and again, and he did 343 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: the statement at some point said that you know, this 344 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: was like an attack by the government. They were trying 345 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: to railroad the black man with money. Did he really 346 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: messed himself up with? I mean, you drag a woman 347 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: and beat her on camera in the hallway of a 348 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: very popular ritzy ritzy hotel. You're out of here mentally, 349 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: like there's no thinking, no logic, no like that. 350 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 2: It is just stupid. 351 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's stupid to put jans on a woman 352 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: like that anyway, but to do it in the way 353 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: that he did, the lack of I'm not bigger than 354 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: the program, it screams it, right. But then when she 355 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: came out with the civil lawsuit, the way that they 356 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: responded horrible. Once he came out responded that way with 357 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: the civil lawsuit and then the video dropped, and then 358 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: you know, now he has to say, oh, I've changed, 359 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: I've changed, y'all whatever, And then we found out about 360 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: Jane Is. Even if his team argues this is not 361 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: a domestic violence case, the way that the narrative has 362 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: been painted around Diddy, to me, is the biggest piece 363 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: evidence that the prosecutors could have ever been handed. And 364 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,679 Speaker 1: they didn't have to do anything but talk about some 365 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: things and show a video. To be honest with you, 366 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: Cassie getting on the stand, I think that, you know, 367 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: it helped for sure, that's why she was a star witness. 368 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: But seeing the video and seeing everything he did after, 369 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: I think even before Cassie got on a stand, there 370 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: was a very clear line of like, oh, you do 371 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: what you want. 372 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 2: Huh. 373 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: That is never going to fear farewell in court, not 374 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: with everyday people in jurors. I don't care, you know 375 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: what type of person you are, what type of celebrity 376 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: you are, but especially not with a judge, especially not 377 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: with a judge. And that's what makes me, you know, 378 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: think you've been having conversations about what we think the 379 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: sentencing will be for Diddy in these upcoming days, and 380 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: you know, I've heard people say ten years, more than 381 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: ten years, and I thought for a while, I'm like, 382 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: you know, maybe anywhere from like two to four, and 383 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: then he'll get the year, so he'll do about three. 384 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: But with the prosecution acing for eleven. And you know, 385 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: the judge repeatedly when they came to the bail conversation 386 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: saying I don't think that you're ready to be back, 387 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: and say I think everything is just too soon right now. 388 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,199 Speaker 1: I think a judge is really going to feel like 389 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: he needs to sit Diddy down to teach him. You're 390 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: not bigger than any program here, So we'll have to 391 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: see what happens at the end of the day. There's 392 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: always a lot to talk about, you guys. We are 393 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: again less than five days away from the sentencing of 394 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: Seawan Diddy comes one of the biggest names in entertainment, 395 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 1: hip hop, you know, marketing, lifestyle. 396 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 2: You could never have told me five or ten years ago. 397 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: You know, you could have never told me that this 398 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: is where we would be in conversation around Diddy and 399 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: his legacy. 400 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 2: But we're here. 401 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: I want to know, what do you guys think? How 402 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: many years is Diddy going to be. 403 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 2: Handed On Friday? October third. Let's talk about it. Get 404 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 2: in the comments, take it to streets and tweets for 405 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 2: the TETs. 406 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: Be outside, Were you outside, Were outside. I'm Lona Rosa 407 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you guys could 408 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: be anywhere with anybody, having a conversation about all of 409 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: this stuff, but y'all choose to be here with me 410 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: every single. 411 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 2: Episode my Lowriders. 412 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys, and please go check out my 413 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: Forbes article. Take it, read it, share it all the things. 414 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: I'll see you guys in my next episode.