Cassie Ventura’s lyricist, Tiffany Redd, claims to have witnessed the darkish facet of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Throughout ABC “The Secret Life of Diddy – 20/20 Special” that aired Wednesday, Redd, 37, weighed in on the troubled relationship between Ventura, 38, and Combs, 54, who dated from 2007 to 2018.
Redd recalled one evening in 2015 when he heard a telephone name by which Combs… who was arrested last month on prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering – verbally abusing Ventura.
“I keep in mind she stated, ‘Do you wish to see one thing loopy?’ And I used to be like, ‘What?’ And she or he answered the telephone,” Pink recalled.
“As quickly as he answered — ‘B–h,’ the place the hell are you?’ He was so upset that she walked out,” Redd stated of the now-disgraced rapper. “I keep in mind him screaming and saying, ‘Is there anyone within the automotive with you?’ I do know somebody is within the automotive with you.
“That was my first time like, ‘One thing’s fallacious,'” Pink added.
The Grammy Award winner additionally claims she noticed Combs yell at her then-girlfriend at Ventura’s twenty ninth birthday in August 2015.
“I stroll out of the room and proper exterior the door, his safety is round him, cornering her, and he is in her face, yelling at her to get out,” shared Pink.
“He was actually offended, he was very near her face and she or he simply had her head down. Once I was standing on the sidelines, she would simply search for at me,” she recalled.
Pink additional claimed of Combs, “I felt that everybody round him was afraid of him.”
When requested why, she referred to as the “Coming House” rapper “explosive” and famous how robust he was on the time.
“What are you going to do? He has the keys to the cities. He’s pals with politicians. He’s pals with this individual,” she stated. “Who will dispute that? And when? And to imagine? Sure right.
Redd additionally accused Combs of utilizing music to regulate Ventura by promising to launch her album, which he by no means did.
“From the seems of it, it was by no means going to return to mild. He ought to by no means have come,” Redd stated, including: “She informed me the one time he was keen to speak about her music was during Freak-Offs.”
Pink revealed that in her first interplay with Combs, he requested her about writing songs for Ventura.
“He stated, ‘So she’s speaking to you, huh.’ After which he simply checked out me after which walked away,” Pink recalled. “I felt scared. I had a sense he did not need her to speak to me.
Final yr, Ventura filed a lawsuit in opposition to Combs primarily based on a number of allegations, together with rape and physical abuse for more than a decade. They settled the case at some point after she submitted it.
In Could, CNN launched a video of Combs abusing Ventura at a lodge in 2016. Combs may very well be seen kicking, dragging, stomping and throwing objects of the “Me and U” singer within the disturbing footage.
Combs later released an apology video about his actions on Instagram, citing his “inexcusable conduct” for beating Ventura and saying, “I used to be screwed.”
When requested about Combs’ apology throughout the ABC particular, Redd stated, “I assumed it was for him. I believe all this was him speaking about himself and the way he felt. It is all about him, him, him, him.”
In the meantime, Ventura, released a statement in May after the video leaked and stated the abuse she suffered “broke me into somebody I by no means thought I’d be.”
“With numerous exhausting work, I am higher right now, however I will at all times bounce again from my previous,” she added.
The 2016 video was used as proof within the case in opposition to Combs, who was arrested in New York final month. The prosecutors declare in Artwork indictment in opposition to Combs, which the hip-hop star hosted “wacky” parties the place women were lured and coerced for taking part in sexual performances with male intercourse employees.
It is combed also faces sexual assault charges of 120 accusers over the previous 30 years.
He has pleaded not responsible to all prices whereas he stays behind bars in Brooklyn.
On Wednesday, Combs’ authorized workforce argued that the Division of Homeland Safety leaked video of him beating Ventura hurt his probabilities of profitable the case.
His attorneys urged the courtroom to doubtlessly suppress proof, together with the 2016 tape, and even dismiss the case, in keeping with the authorized temporary.
On Thursday, the rapper is scheduled to look earlier than Manhattan federal decide Arun Subramanian at 2 p.m. to debate a possible trial date and set a timeline for when the feds will flip over “big” reams of proof to his attorneys.
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