Cassie Ventura after Diddy abuse video: ‘Take the victims critically’

Singer Cassie Ventura has responded on Instagram to the video that appeared final week displaying that she was abused by her boyfriend Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

37-year-old Ventura say in a written assertion that “she is going to all the time wrestle with the previous”. She additionally urged that “credible victims” should be taken critically instantly.

though the images of the abuse that occurred in 2016 simply final Friday, Ventura had already spoken about it in a now established lawsuit, which she filed in November.

The singer, who had a relationship with Combs between 2007 and 2018, has reached a settlement along with her ex-husband on this lawsuit. She now says on Instagram: “Due to all of the messages of help, my childhood can now really feel secure once more.”

However that is solely the start, says the singer. “Home violence is the issue. It has made me into somebody I by no means thought I’d be. With loads of effort I acquired over it, however I all the time wrestle with the time ‘gone.’

She then makes a request: “My solely query is that everybody takes credible victims critically. It takes loads of braveness to inform the reality if you end up in a powerless place.”

She additionally talks to people who find themselves in the identical scenario as she was on the time. “Exit to the individuals round you, do not reduce your self off from them.

Final weekend, rapper Diddy admitted to assaulting Ventura, after beforehand denying it. In a video he stated he was very sorry.

“I take full accountability for what I did in that video,” he stated. “I used to be disgusted by it once I did it and I am disgusted by it now.” He additionally says that his habits is “unsustainable.”

Combs stated he was doing very badly on the time and was in search of skilled assist. “I went to remedy, I went to rehab.” He additionally says that he tries to be a greater particular person daily. “I do not need forgiveness, I am actually sorry.”

Watch the video of him saying sorry right here:

The Ventura case isn’t an remoted one. Since November, Combs has been the topic of 5 different civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct and different crimes.

He has additionally all the time denied these allegations. Combs’ properties had been searched in April as a part of a federal investigation by a human trafficking workforce.