Los Angeles – Singer Cassie Ventura, ex-girlfriend of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, has publicly thanked the people who supported her after the release of a 2016 surveillance video that appeared to show him assaulting her at a Los Angeles hotel and spoken out against domestic violence.
“Thank you for all of the love and support from my family, friends, strangers and those I have yet to meet,” the “Me & U” vocalist wrote in a post on Instagram.
Cassie and Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs attend the Met Gala in 2017.Credit: John Lamparski/Getty
“Domestic Violence is THE issue. It broke me down to someone I never thought I would become,” she added.
Combs posted an apology on social media on Sunday, two days after the video was released on CNN.
“I’m truly sorry,” he said in a video post on his Instagram page. “My behaviour on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now.”
In the surveillance video, the rapper appears to grab Ventura as she waits by an elevator at the hotel.
Ventura wrote that she is better now but will always be recovering from her past.
“My only ask is that EVERYONE open your heart to believing victims for the first time. It takes a lot of heart to tell the truth out of a situation that you were powerless in,” she wrote.
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