Until recently, I thought Diddy’s worst crime was rapping on other people’s records. But now, between the sex trafficking allegations and the shameless video of him attacking his ex-girlfriend in a hotel hallway, I’m convinced that the only place he should be making music is in a prison cell with R. Kelly.
The video was hard to watch. The newly-released disturbing footage of Diddy — real name, Sean Combs — assaulting singer Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel back in 2016 was the worst domestic violence video since former football star Ray Rice was caught on camera coldcocking his fiancée in an Atlantic City casino elevator in 2014. The only thing more difficult to watch was Combs’ shameless public apology, the one that took him years to make after denying months ago that anything ever happened.
“I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I was disgusted then when I did it. I’m disgusted now,” the music mogul said in a video statement posted last week to Instagram and Facebook.
Sean Combs went on to say that he sought out therapy after the incident, and that he was working hard to try to be a better man. The therapy only succeeded in turning him into a worse liar. When Cassie 37, filed a lawsuit against Combs late last year, accusing him of rape, sex trafficking and physical abuse, he denied the allegations, although he settled the next day.
“Let me be absolutely clear,” Combs said in a statement.” I did not do any of the awful things.
