Rapper and producer Sean Combs, also known as Diddy and Puff Daddy, offered an apology on Instagram Sunday for assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassandra Ventura, or Cassie.
Combs took to social media just one day after the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced that the assault, while caught on tape, “occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted.” The hotel security footage comes from 2016 and captured Combs in a towel kicking Ventura several times as she is trying to leave. At one point, he throws a vase in her direction, but she was out of view of the camera to see if he struck her with it.
“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you gotta do that. I was f***ed up, I mean I hit rock bottom,” Combs said in a video captioned, “I’m truly sorry.” Despite his apology, he assured his followers he was not “asking for forgiveness.”
“But I make no excuses. my behavior 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, and I’m disgusted now,” Combs said.
Combs claimed he has since sought professional help, therapy, and rehabilitation. Last year, he settled a lawsuit with Ventura over her allegations of abuse and rape over the course of ten years. Shortly after the settlement, Combs took to X to proclaim, “I did not do any of the awful things being alleged.”
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Federal authorities raided Combs’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami earlier this year. No charges have been filed as a result, and it remains to be seen exactly what law enforcement was searching for.
The rapper has been sued by four different women alleging they were sexually assaulted by Combs and others over 20 years ago. Two of the women filed suits anonymously, with one woman filing last week with allegations she was raped at 17 in 2003. Joi Dickerson-Neal filed last month as a woman who appeared in one of Combs’s music videos, alleging she was drugged and raped in 1991 while a student at Syracuse University.
