In the latest to emerge out of the highly publicised Diddy trial, his ex-girlfriend has revealed what went on in the so-called ‘freak offs’ and the one thing she desperately tried to avoid.
The high-profile court trial of Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, started on Monday (May 12) after the rapper was arrested and charged on suspicion of s*x trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, which he denies.
Since Tuesday (May 13), Combs’ former long-term girlfriend, Cassandra Ventura, known more commonly as Cassie, has been sharing her version of events that happened when the pair dated on-and-off between 2007 and 2018.
Ventura, who started dating Combs when she was 19 and he was 37, claims she suffered physical abuse at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, alleging that arguments would ‘result in violence’ and ‘too frequently.’
A CCTV video that had been made public last year was also shown to jurors, which showed Combs attacking her inside a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
Cassie has been taking to the stand in the high-profile Diddy trial this week (Gotham/GC Images)
In 2024, Combs addressed the video, saying that his behavior in the video was ‘inexcusable’ and he was ‘f**ked up’.
In another part of her testimony, Ventura claimed she was made to call Combs ‘Pop Pop,’ a nickname she had for her grandfather, amongst a litany of other disturbing allegations.
As for the alleged ‘freak-offs’, the 38-year-old musician claimed they were ‘sexual encounters called voyeurism’ where Combs would watch her have sex with another man, usually a male escort.
In one horrifying ordeal, she alleged Combs had directed an escort to ‘urinate in her mouth’ which made her feel like she was ‘choking’.
In another bombshell, Ventura took to the stand again today (14 May) to talk at length about the alleged freak-offs that she said made her feel ‘horrible about myself’ and ‘humiliated.’
The former couple in 2017 (Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images)
When asked in court if there was anything specific she would try to avoid in the supposed s*x ‘parties’, Ventura said: “I tried to avoid kissing, it seems too intimate. But [Combs] told me to do it, to kiss the escorts.”
Ventura also claimed Combs would ‘blackmail’ her with recordings of her engaging in sexual acts, referring to one incident on the 29th birthday where he ‘pulled’ her away from her friends for a ‘freak off.’
“It is horrible and disgusting. No one should do that to anyone,” she said. “It could ruin everything I worked for, make me look like a sl*t. I wasn’t supposed to be on those videos. I didn’t want to be in them.”
The mom-of-two also alleged Combs threatened to release the videos of her when she started dating someone else.
Earlier in the trial, Ventura recalled the first moment she learned about the so-called ‘freak offs,’ saying in court: “I remember my stomach falling to my butt. Just the nervousness and confusion… I had just turned 22.”
Cassie has testified against Diddy, claiming he was abusive during their on-off relationship (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
“The freak offs became a job. There was no time to do anything else but do them then try to recover. The longest was four days, significant periods of time.”
Today, she said she would ‘recover’ from the events by taking ‘opiates.’
“I wanted to feel numb,” Ventura continued. “I got urinary tract infections,” she said as well as ‘sores’ in her mouth which she claims were from oral s*x from the ‘freak-offs.’
