Cassie Ventura testified that in 2023 he went to rehabilitation and trauma therapy due to what he described as losing his will to live and his suicide contemplation.
“I was spinning and I didn’t want to be alive at that time,” Ventura testified, breaking while telling how “I could no longer take the pain in which I was.”
Holding a handkerchief in his eyes, Ventura testified that “he tried to go out the main door to traffic” but that “my husband did not leave me.”
Casandra “Cassie” Ventura reacts at the end of the direct testimony during the Sean Traffic Trial of Sean “Diddy” combs in New York City, on May 14, 2025 in this sketch of the Court Chamber.
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Ventura told the jury that he wrote about his experiences in the chapters of a book: “Putting everything on paper for the first time so that he could really understand what had happened for many years.”
Ventura testified that he wanted the combs to read what he had written because “he wanted him to recognize the pain that crossed me.”
Combs listened to Ventura with his chin resting on his hand, side on the table.
“It brought me the concept when I was 22 years old,” Ventura testified, speaking of the “fans.” “And he never stopped.”
Ventura testified that he participated in “hundreds” of alleged “monsters” during his relationship with combs, and none since then.
Through tears, Ventura told court: “I was always so insensitive because that is what I chose to overcome it.”
Ventura affirmed in his testimony that offered to comb the rights of his book for $ 30 million, a figure that said he chose randomly and “that would alert him.” He did not receive money, he told the court.
Ventura testified that he filed a civil lawsuit against combs in November 2023 that was established the next day for $ 20 million. Ventura’s testimony was the first time that the monetary amount of the liquidation has been publicly revealed.
When asked why he agreed to testify against the combs in this trial, Ventura replied: “I can no longer take this. I cannot carry the same, the fault, the way I was guided to treat people as if they were disposable.”
“The right thing is correct, what is wrong is wrong,” Ventura told court. “I’m here to do the right thing.”
