Sean “Diddy” Combs apologized for the not too long ago surfaced safety video aired by way of CNN that appears to show him attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016. He mentioned his conduct was once “inexcusable” and he is taking “full responsibility” for his movements.
The hip-hop magnate took to social media on Sunday to make an apology for the alleged assault and mentioned in a video on Instagram he’s “disgusted” by way of his movements.
“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” Diddy mentioned on Instagram. “I was f—ed up — I hit rock bottom — but I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable.”
The video, which CNN first aired on Friday, is the original in a months-long line of nation allegations and revelations of bodily and sexual violence in opposition to Combs.
Within the video, Combs, dressed in just a white towel, is noticeable it sounds as if punching and kicking the R&B singer who was once his protege and longtime female friend on the while. The photos additionally presentations Combs allegedly shoving and dragging Ventura, and throwing a vase in her course.
The protection digital camera video, dated March 5, 2016, carefully resembles the outline of an incident at an InterContinental Resort within the Century Town branch of Los Angeles described in a November lawsuit filed by Ventura, whose criminal title is Cassandra Ventura, that alleged years of sexual abuse and alternative violence from Combs.
The lawsuit alleges Combs paid the resort $50,000 for the safety video. CNN didn’t say the way it bought the video however famous it verified the positioning the place it was once shot by way of evaluating the photos to publicly to be had photographs of the InterContinental Resort.
Diddy has denied the allegations within the lawsuit however neither he nor his representatives had spoke back at the video till Sunday.
“I take full responsibility for my actions in that video,” Combs mentioned Sunday. “I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help. I got into going to therapy, going to rehab. I had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry. But I’m committed to be a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
On Friday, the Los Angeles District Lawyer’s place of business mentioned in a observation that they have been “aware of the video.” They mentioned the photographs are “extremely disturbing and difficult to watch,” however that “we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted.”
A attorney for Ventura advised CBS Information in a observation that Combs’ observation on Sunday was once “more about himself than the many people he has hurt.”
“When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday,” Meredith Firetog, a spouse at Wigdor LLP mentioned in a observation. “That he was only compelled to ‘apologize’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation, and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”
