Cassie has addressed the media after completing her testimony in ex-boyfriend Sean Diddy’s trial. The Me & U singer spent four days on the stand detailing the alleged abuse she endured during their 11-year relationship.
After finishing her testimony on Friday, Cassie’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, read a statement on her behalf outside the New York courthouse. She expressed gratitude towards her family for their support and anyone who has shown her kindness and encouragement.
“This week has been extremely challenging, but also remarkably empowering and healing for me. I hope that my testimony has given strength and a voice to other survivors, and can help others who have suffered to speak up and also heal from abuse and fear,” said the 38-year-old, who is currently eight months pregnant.
“I am glad to put this chapter of my life to rest as I turn to focus on the conclusion of my pregnancy, I ask for privacy for me and for my growing family.”
Her husband Alex Fine released a statement of his own in which he praised the singer for her “strength and bravery” after listening to four days of disturbing and sometimes graphic testimony about her former relationship.
“I did not save Cassie, as some have said. To say that is an insult to the years of painful work my wife has done to save herself. Cassie saved Cassie. She alone broke free from abuse, coercion, violence and threats,” he wrote.
Addressing Combs, he continued, “So, to him and all of those who helped him along the way, please know this: You did not. You did not break her spirit nor her smile that lights up every room. You did not break the soul of a mother who gives the best hugs and plays the silliest games with our little girls. You did not break the woman who has made me a better man.”
Cassie married Fine in 2019 and they are expecting their third child. Combs is facing charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation for prostitution, all of which he has denied. The trial is ongoing.
