In an emotionally charged testimony today, singer and former Bad Boy artist Cassie Ventura took the stand to give chilling details about her relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs. Her testimony, part of the ongoing federal investigation, included vivid accounts of psychological and physical abuse, manipulation, and drug use that began when she was just a young artist under Diddy’s control.
“I didn’t know what ‘No’ could turn into,” Cassie said according to Inner City Press who is live tweeting form the Federal courtroom in Manhattan. When asked what she feared about resisting Diddy’s demands. “Making him angry,” she added. When pressed further about her fears, she alluded to possible blackmail: “I thought he had blackmail materials…”
Cassie confirmed that she handed over laptops to the government containing communications and documents related to Combs. Reviewing photographic evidence during the testimony, she identified a photo of herself from 2004 with Kerry Morgan and another of Kim Porter, Diddy’s former partner and mother of his children.
Cassie signed a ten-album deal with Bad Boy Records in 2006 but admitted she never released any music under the label after that year. “Sean called all of the shots,” she said, explaining how her career was stifled and controlled from the very beginning.
One of the most disturbing moments in her testimony came as she recalled her 21st birthday in Las Vegas, during the VMAs. “Sean kissed me in the bathroom,” she said. “I ran back to my hotel. I told Kerry.”
She described how their relationship began to blur lines between business and coercion. “He introduced me to oral sex. I didn’t understand it,” she testified, revealing the emotional manipulation and imbalance caused by their 17-year age difference. When asked how she felt about being invited to hotels, she admitted feeling nervous but also somewhat excited, thinking they would be “talking about music.”
In another shocking detail, Cassie said Diddy gave her “Blue Dolphin” ecstasy on a boat in Miami. She noted that she had once taken ecstasy unintentionally when it was slipped into Gatorade. When asked how it felt taking it knowingly, she said, “Like, rolling.”
“I thought we were monogamous,” she continued. But the relationship was never public. “I was his artist. Also, his family, his children,” she said, identifying Kim Porter as the person publicly linked to Combs at the time. Despite their private relationship, she remembered thinking, “We were spending a lot of time together.”
Cassie also described the lavish but unsettling lifestyle that surrounded Combs. “He had all these assistants. He could get things done. He traveled quite a bit.” She identified a photo of them at a New York strip club in 2007 or 2008 on Halloween, noting the increasing volatility of his behavior.
When asked to describe his mood swings, she said it could range from “anger” to “zoning out.” That volatility often turned violent: “The next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face,” she said. “There was also psychological abuse. He’d tell me to watch my mouth, change my face.”
