WEBVTT - Prosecutors wand Diddy to serve 11 years .. Lets talk … 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.720 I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:05.640 and everybody. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:07.600 You don't know if you don't lie about that. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:14.280 Right, Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren de Rosa and 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.079 this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren Rosa. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.840 This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.320 and all of the conversations that shake the room. Now 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.080 we're gonna get right on into the Latest. We won't 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.680 do it behind the scenes of the grind check in today. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.720 I mean, I guess we should because we did just 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:39.560 get a feature in Forbes, So we're gonna check it 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:40.280 behind the scenes to. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.240 The grind world real quick. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.600 If you guys did not catch any of my social 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.400 media postings, I'm Laura l Rosa everywhere, especially on Instagram. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.800 I posted an article from Forbes that you guys should 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.520 go check out. Shout out to Jasmine Brawley, who was 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.880 the journalist that interviewed me for Forbes, and we talked 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.000 about radio and you know, the conversation that a lot 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.840 of people like to have, especially with me because you know, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.039 I'm new to radio, but radio has done so much 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.560 for me over this last year two years with the 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.520 Breakfast Club about radio and is it a dying industry 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.760 or not. So we did the interview there and we 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.240 talked a lot about, you know, just what my process 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.880 is and you know how you know, from the Breakfast 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.679 Club to the latest with laying the rods of the 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.399 podcast and the partnership with Black Effect Podcast Network, how 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.200 we figure out like what content fits wear and honestly 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.560 just how radio has helped me amplify all the things 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.480 that I'm doing. So please, if you have not already 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.200 go and checked that out. Just google Lauren the Rows 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.319 of Forbes. It's also, you know, I posted some of 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.360 the quotes on my Instagram. I'll have the link on 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.199 my bidio by the time this goes live. 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:42.840 Go check it out. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.200 It so also on my Twitter and my Facebook to 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.479 us everywhere if you haven't seen it. So I'm feeling 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.640 good about that. But you know, with notoriety comes more responsibility. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.520 I feel like every time there's an article published about me, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.360 what I do, how I report, you know how I 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.200 like to fact check as much as I can and 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.760 you know, get some clarity and get at bottom of things. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.400 More responsibility it is to do that, And I know 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.920 I always say no one can be perfect, but I 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.440 am striving for it because with every article comes more eyes. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.120 So here we are the latest with Lanna Rosa. Let's 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.359 get right on into the topics. So up first in 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.440 the latest Diddy we've been you know, preparing. We are 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.520 literally less than five days away from October third, twenty 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.160 twenty five, which is the day that Sean Ditty Combs 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.919 will be sentenced here in New York City. Now here's 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.120 the thing about this sentencing. Diddy's team has been asking 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.640 for a very long time for charges to be acquitted 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.000 for What they're basically saying is that either Diddy should 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.000 be allowed to go home and walk free of all charges. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.040 There's two counts of the prostitution or the traveling in 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.160 with the intent to engage in prostitution. So either all 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.640 of the charges should be dropped, one of the charges 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.160 or some of the things, or Diddy should be given 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.600 a new trial. So as far as bond, and we've 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.840 reported it here several times, the judge has not ever 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.440 sided with the fact that he believes that Diddy is 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.280 not a danger to the community enough makes the best 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.560 decisions and it's just a law abiding citizen enough to 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.560 even be trusted to be let out on bond. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:11.920 Now, that's pretty telling. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.440 And I've said here too that the way that the 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.959 judge rules on this acquittal can tell you a lot 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.519 about what Diddy might. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.600 Be looking at when it comes to what his sentence 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:21.920 may be. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.600 As of right now, for the two counts of the 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.720 Men Act, which Diddy was found guilty on transporting mail 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.880 prostitutes across state lines, Diddy is looking at up to 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.200 twenty years behind bars, ten years per charge, right, twenty 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.440 years total. Diddy has been asking this, the judge has 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.280 yet to decide it. The last time we were in court, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.320 which was only a few days ago, we still have 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.480 not heard anything back. And I reached out trying to 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.160 get a better understanding from people close to the court 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.000 who would know when are we going to hear from 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.760 the judge? Like what does it mean that this acquittal 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.600 conversation has not fully been answered? And we're what like 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.240 two maybe three days away from the sentencing, three nights 0:03:58.240 --> 0:03:59.800 for nights and a wake up, And from what I 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:03.200 was told, it doesn't mean anything the acquittal conversation and 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 whether the judge rules to do that not do it 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.160 allow a retrial or not allow retrial? That could come 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.360 after the sentencing, so that's not even something that they're 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.760 holding out the hope for now. Where they're focused on 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.920 is trying to get a sentence that leans in Ditty's favor. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.400 But prosecutors say they want him to do eleven years 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.039 in some months and also pay a five hundred thousand 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.120 dollars fine two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per count. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.680 And boy, is Diddy Up against a lot because the 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.600 main thing that is cited here in the documents filed 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.919 by the government is what the judge kind of not 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.640 even kind of. I was in the courtroom, and the 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.760 judge specifically pointed to the fact that leading up to 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.159 Diddy's arrest, like I mean, the week leading into the 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.760 day that the FEDS picked Diddy up off of the street, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.120 Diddy was still engaged in a lot of the acts 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.960 that led a jury to find him guilty of the 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.960 two men acts that he's facing right now, and a 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.320 lot of the acts that led a judge to believe 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.279 he shouldn't be out on bail, if even just awaiting trial. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.200 And when I talk about these acts, I'm talking talking 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.039 about from what the judge has said, they deemed Diddy dangerous, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.640 not just because of the Cassie video and seeing him 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.800 stumper out in that video, but in this document, the 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.120 sentencing document that the government has submitted. It is over 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.320 one hundred and sixty pages. Try to read as much 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:15.800 as I could before I came in here, so we 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.920 will be doing an update, and I owe you guys 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.800 like a thorough breakdown of all of this before we 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.000 go into sentencing, because I want you guys to be 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:24.760 as in the know as you can so that our 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.720 sentencing conversation is a lot easier. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:27.920 But everything that I. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.880 Read points to did he making decisions knowing that he 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.240 was under federal and investigation. The prosecutors are heavily pointing 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.680 to that, and that only makes sense strategy wise. That's 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.600 smart for them because they already know the judge believes that. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.760 And if you're leaning on that and the judge already 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.120 believes that, you can almost assume the judge is going 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.800 to rule in the favor where he's been having conversation 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.560 up until this point, which is you can't operate as 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.000 a as a man in the community making good decisions. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.279 We gave you that chance. You were a waiting to 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.920 come here for trial, and these are other things that happen. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.839 They specifically point out. So after the Cassie beating video 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.960 broke v CNN back in Man twenty twenty four, did 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.560 he got online. He posted some statements and in the 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:09.880 statements in the video, he said this. 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.919 It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:18.840 your life. Sometimes you gotta do that. I was duck. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.080 I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I made no excuses. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.520 My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.800 responsibility for my actions in that video. I'm disgusted. I 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.560 was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusting now 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.120 when and I sought our professional help and to go 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.919 into therapy. I'm going to rehab. Had asked God for 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.799 his mercy and grace. I'm so sorry, but I'm committed 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.840 to be a better man easin every day. I'm not 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.040 asking for forgiveness. I'm truly sorry. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.760 Now they call this ironic because they're like, you said 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.039 you were a better man, that you would talk to God, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.320 and you've been doing the work, only to find out 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.960 some months later you get into it with Jane, and 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.400 I will say in court. Jane said on the stand 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.640 herself that she did physically put her hands on Diddy first, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.559 But the prosecutors point back to, you know, him getting 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.679 into it physically with Jane, which led to him putting 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.360 his hands on her. Not the same way as Cassie. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.720 But you know, it's the same instances domestic violence either way. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.080 But this was different, and Diddy Seam points out this 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.600 was different because he was hit first. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:25.480 In this circumstance. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.240 But prosecutors pointed out he busted down five doors trying 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.640 to get to her throughout this, you know what they 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:32.400 call an attack? 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:32.720 Right? 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.760 How is he upstanding citizen? How can we trust that 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.600 he will come home and do all the things he 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.960 needs to do and really understand that you're not bigger 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.960 than the program, because he was waiting to come and 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.920 see you, judge, and he couldn't even understand that did 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:46.800 He has really gotten himself into some trouble. And I 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.080 think a lot of people keep having conversations about what 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.320 does and does not pertain to these charges in the 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.800 cases that the prosecutors are submitting in the same sentencing 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.000 conversation to show that there are people who have been 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.520 placed behind bars for ten plus years for these same charges, 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.320 what they're leaning on is that it's not just simply 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.280 prostitution on his face. It's the use of hower, the 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.160 use of previously applied force that scares these victims, as 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.000 the prosecution alleges they are, scares them into having to 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.760 do whatever is placed before them. And because of this, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.640 we cannot trust that this man talking about Ditty will 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.200 not come home and fill himself again and feel his power. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.440 How do we know that it's been only but so 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.200 much time now. In addition to all of this, there 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.080 are a ton of letters that have been submitted with 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.600 these filings from people involved in the case, people who've 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.719 testified in the case. It's like the opposite of a 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.880 character statement. So these statements are speaking to why people 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.840 would be scared to tell if Diddy. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.880 Is able to come home in any short amount of time. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.400 So you have Deontay Nash, who is a stylist friend 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.520 of Ditty's, who was styling Cassie. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.080 Who submitted a letter. 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.800 He also recently filed a lawsuit against Ditty an alleged 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.000 sexual claims, and you. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.360 Know various things. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.559 You also have Cassie who submitted a letter which again, 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.160 if you was their star witness while on the stand 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.160 and majority of the decision making from the judge has 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.120 been based around Cassie and the incident that occurred there 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:12.439 and what Diddy applying fear looks like in this situation 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.360 and Cassie's example of that. But she says she is 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.040 still having nightmares about Diddy and urges that they lot 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.920 come up and throw away the key. So she says, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.560 dear Judge Soubranean, I have been in a cycle of 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.880 thought and then over thought writing this letter to you. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.840 If there's one thing I have learned from this experience, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.440 it is that victims and survivals will never be safe. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.319 Although I can hope for justice and accountability, I've come 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.480 to not trusting anything. I hope that your decision considers 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.440 the truth at hand that the jury fell to see. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.240 For four days in May, while nine months pregnant with 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.640 my son, I testified in front of a packed courtroom 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.640 in the most traumatic, horrifying chapter of my life. I 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:57.800 testified that from age nineteen, Sean Combs used violence, threats, substances, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.880 and control over my career to trap me, and over 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.800 decade of abuse, he groomed me into performing repeated sex 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.800 acts with hired male sex workers. During multi day freak alls, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.720 which occurred nearly every week, I was forced into laingerie 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:14.000 and heels, told exactly how to look, implied with drugs 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.960 and alcohol so he could control me like a puppet. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.360 These events were degrading and disgusting, leaving me with infections, illnesses, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.840 and days of physical and emotional exhaustion. Before he demanded 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.360 it all again. Sex acts became my full time job, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.640 used as the only way to stay in his good graces. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:33.040 I testified that I. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:37.240 Learned to read Shuancom's signals, knowing that when he spoke 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.679 of freak alls, he was demanding them, and that refusing 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.720 meant punishment. Losing my car my phone are worse. He 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.640 controlled every part of my livelihood and threatened to destroy 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:52.160 my reputation by leaking sex tapes, a threat he repeated often. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:57.040 His power over me eroded my independence. His power, she says, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.640 over me eroded my independence. And that is what prosecution 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.920 is hoping that a judge takes from all of these letters, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.840 but specifically this letter. His power over me eroded my 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.959 independence and sense of self until I felt I had 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.840 no choice but to submit when he was believed I 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.280 had wronged him or was not sufficiently responsive. He also 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.240 threatened people around me and those close to me, including 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.240 my family. Now Deontay Nash is stylist who was also 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:26.120 stilent Cassie friend of Cassie's, also formerly a friend stylast 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.360 of Diddy, also claimed this too, like a lot of 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.160 times he would get threats and things of that nature 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.520 because of what was or wasn't happening in Cassie and 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.760 Diddy's relationship, and and you know, just trying to look 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.000 out for her as a friend. I regularly worried that 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.560 displeasing him meant putting my family in friends safety at risk. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.800 I testify how beyond the threats, Shawn Colmbs frequently used 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.199 violence to get his way over the nearly eleven years 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.240 we were together. Shawn Colmbs would hit me, punch me, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.440 stomp on my face, pull my hair, and throw my 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.480 body to the ground and against the wall. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.680 The jewelry saw pictures of bruises on my back. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.600 They include the pictures in the sentencing package from shawnclmmes 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.000 kicking and saw the deep gash over my eye, he 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.839 calls when he slammed me into a bed frame. The 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.040 entire courtroom watched actual footage of Combs kicking and beating 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.960 me as I tried to run away. And it was 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.600 so hard watching that footage in the courtroom, like think 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.440 of the imagery. We're watching that CNN video and in 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.640 that video, he's literally repeatedly kicking her like she's just 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:25.439 like they're like helpless. You're watching her, Cassie. You're watching Cassie. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.920 Watch the video. And when I say she is so pregnant, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.880 I mean she is like irritably pregnant, like she looked 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.839 like she could pop any day. She's trying to get 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.400 through it, holding back a motion. I'm like, there's no 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.400 way a jury doesn't I don't care what he gets 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.760 off on because I always felt like that Rico wasn't 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.920 gonna stick, even though I felt like they had some 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.160 parts of it, but it was in theory. I don't 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.080 feel like they had enough evidence. There was no way 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.199 in my mind after seeing that image. And I'm just 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.760 a person sitting in the courtroom. Y'all know, I wasn't 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.280 a durer duror, but after seeing that image of her, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.280 I'm like, there's no way that Diddy's team, who was great, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.679 They've been doing great at what they're doing right. Defending 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.160 him can get that image out of a person's head. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.880 This woman is pregnant, she is here is obviously she 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.280 does not want to be here. She's having to do 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.560 this in front of her family, in front of the media, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.200 in front of all of these people. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.240 And then we're seeing bruised. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.000 Face and dash across the head and you know, just 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.040 swollen lips, like it was so much. I think for 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.440 about three weeks, maybe two weeks, all we did was 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.040 look at photos of her bruises from her domestic violence 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.720 and hear her recount every instance of like almost she 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.840 talked about ode in at one point and just being 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.440 thrown in the shower, and you know, it was a lot, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.440 she says. The entire courtroom watched actual footage of Sean 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:38.920 Combs kicking me and beating me as I tried to 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.480 run away from the freak off in twenty sixteen. People 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.720 watch his footage dozens of time. See my body thrown 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.800 to the ground, my hands over my head, curled into 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.439 a fetal position to shield me from my worst blows. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.120 The physical violence caused bruises that makeup artists pay for 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.880 by Sean Combs will cover up as well as permanent 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.240 scars all over my body, she says. 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.760 During my time with Combs, I was in a constant. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.400 State of hyper vigilance, as I was always anticipating demands 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:08.400 for sex acts or otherwise fearing retribution for any perceived slight. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.720 My descentant to substance abuse was directly correlated with his 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.240 increase control over my body, my money, my freedom, and 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.600 my free will. I use those drugs to push me 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.520 through the horrifying sex acts. I spent the last seven 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.280 years of my life slowly rebuilding myself physically, getting clean 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.240 from the drug abuse Sean Comb's force and encouraged and 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.880 mentally understanding how to live with a seemingly huge amount 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.120 of trauma. The horrors I endured drove me to have 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.200 thoughts of suicide, ones that I almost followed through on 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.640 if not for my families intervention and urging that I 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.320 seek professional care. I've been in rehab and I've taken 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.760 dozens of types of therapy to comfort myself, apartmentalized, and 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.040 cope with the horrific memories of sexual and emotional abuse 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.760 I endure for nearly ten years. While what he did 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.280 to me is always present, I am slowly learning how 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.240 to live my life free from fear and horrors I endured, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.760 and I'm doing so fully devoted to my husband and children. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.400 I still have nightmares and flashbacks on a regular, everyday 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.560 basis and continue to require psychological care to cope with 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.280 my past. My worries are that Sean Colmbs or his 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.960 associates will come after me and my family, and that 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.800 is my reality. I have, in fact, moved my family 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.520 out of New York, out of the New York area, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.760 and am keeping as much of a private or qriet 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.520 life as I possibly can, because I am so scared 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.600 that if he walks free, his first action be swift 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:26.120 retribution towards me and any others who spoke up about 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.320 his abuse at trial. As much progress as I've made 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.320 in recovering from his abuse, I remain very much afraid 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.160 of what he is capable of doing in the malice 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.160 he undoubtedly harbors towards me for having the bravery to 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.480 tell the truth. His defense attorneys claim he is a 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.200 changed man and he wants to mentor abusers. I know 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.840 firsthand what real mentorship means, and this discuss me he 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.160 is not being truthful. I know who he is or 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.080 who he was to me, the manipulator, the aggressor, the abuser, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.920 and the trafficker. And that is who he will be 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.440 as a human. He has no interest in changing or 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:03.400 becoming better. You will always be the same cruel, power hungry, manipulative. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.040 Man that he is. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.200 When I came out with my allegations in my civil case, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.680 he flatly denied them again and again, and he did 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.520 the statement at some point said that you know, this 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.920 was like an attack by the government. They were trying 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.400 to railroad the black man with money. Did he really 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.400 messed himself up with? I mean, you drag a woman 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.120 and beat her on camera in the hallway of a 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.400 very popular ritzy ritzy hotel. You're out of here mentally, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.160 like there's no thinking, no logic, no like that. 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.040 It is just stupid. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:31.640 I mean, it's stupid to put jans on a woman 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.400 like that anyway, but to do it in the way 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.280 that he did, the lack of I'm not bigger than 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.240 the program, it screams it, right. But then when she 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.000 came out with the civil lawsuit, the way that they 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.720 responded horrible. Once he came out responded that way with 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.280 the civil lawsuit and then the video dropped, and then 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.000 you know, now he has to say, oh, I've changed, 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.760 I've changed, y'all whatever, And then we found out about 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.880 Jane Is. Even if his team argues this is not 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.680 a domestic violence case, the way that the narrative has 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.960 been painted around Diddy, to me, is the biggest piece 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.720 evidence that the prosecutors could have ever been handed. And 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.679 they didn't have to do anything but talk about some 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.080 things and show a video. To be honest with you, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.240 Cassie getting on the stand, I think that, you know, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.639 it helped for sure, that's why she was a star witness. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.040 But seeing the video and seeing everything he did after, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.840 I think even before Cassie got on a stand, there 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.960 was a very clear line of like, oh, you do 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:20.600 what you want. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:21.000 Huh. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.960 That is never going to fear farewell in court, not 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.159 with everyday people in jurors. I don't care, you know 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.240 what type of person you are, what type of celebrity 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.840 you are, but especially not with a judge, especially not 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.080 with a judge. And that's what makes me, you know, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.840 think you've been having conversations about what we think the 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.160 sentencing will be for Diddy in these upcoming days, and 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.879 you know, I've heard people say ten years, more than 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.399 ten years, and I thought for a while, I'm like, 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.639 you know, maybe anywhere from like two to four, and 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.840 then he'll get the year, so he'll do about three. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.320 But with the prosecution acing for eleven. And you know, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.840 the judge repeatedly when they came to the bail conversation 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.680 saying I don't think that you're ready to be back, 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.720 and say I think everything is just too soon right now. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.199 I think a judge is really going to feel like 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.280 he needs to sit Diddy down to teach him. You're 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.280 not bigger than any program here, So we'll have to 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.080 see what happens at the end of the day. There's 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.199 always a lot to talk about, you guys. We are 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.520 again less than five days away from the sentencing of 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.359 Seawan Diddy comes one of the biggest names in entertainment, 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.360 hip hop, you know, marketing, lifestyle. 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.600 You could never have told me five or ten years ago. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.040 You know, you could have never told me that this 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.119 is where we would be in conversation around Diddy and 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:33.800 his legacy. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:34.600 But we're here. 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.240