Sean “Diddy” Combs has apologized for his bad behavior, which he calls “inexcusable,” after CCTV appeared to show him attacking singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura.
The rapper said in a video uploaded to his Instagram page that, he takes full responsibility for what he did in the clip that went viral.
Mr. Combs appeared to be pushing and kicking his ex-girlfriend in a hotel hallway, according to the footage.
“I was disgusted when I did it. I’m disgusted now,” he said in his statement.
“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.”
He added that he was “committed to being a better man each and every day”.
Ms Ventura’s legal team told the BBC’s US partners CBS News that his new assertion is “more about himself than the many individuals he has hurt”.
Lawyer Meredith Firetog stated,
“When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday”
“That he was only compelled to ‘apologise’ once his repeated denials were proven false shows his pathetic desperation and no one will be swayed by his disingenuous words.”
The video appears to show a man kicking Ms. Ventura while she is on the ground and throwing her to the floor. He later tries to drag her by her shirt and toss an object at her.
The video was first shown on CNN, which said that it was shot at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, which is now closed.
Following the release of the video, a statement issued by Ms. Ventura’s attorney stated:
“The heartbreaking video has only further demonstrated Mr. Combs’s disturbing and predatory behavior,”
The Los Angeles Lead prosecutor’s Office said on Friday that the supposed attack caught in the video may be too old to even consider prosecuting.
After meeting when Ventura was 19 and he was 37, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Ventura began dating.
Ms. Ventura was paid an undisclosed sum in November of last year to settle a lawsuit against Mr. Combs in which she had accused him of rape and sexual trafficking for a decade.
Benjamin Brafman, Mr. Combs’s lawyer at the time, stated that the settlement was “in no way an admission of wrongdoing.”
From that point forward, many other women have filed claims accusing the rapper for sexual and physical maltreatment.
His homes in Los Angeles and Miami, Florida, were struck last month as part of a government investigations concerning illegal exploitation.
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