00:00It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life.
00:06Sometimes you gotta do that."
00:07Sean Diddy Combs is apologizing for a recently surfaced 2016 video which sees him attacking
00:14his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura.
00:17Diddy took to Instagram on Sunday to own up to the incident.
00:20The surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Combs holding a towel around his waist, running
00:35after a woman who appears to be Ventura after she's seen exiting a hotel room.
00:40He's then seen grabbing her by the back of the neck, throwing her to the floor, kicking
00:44her, dragging her by her sweatshirt, and later throwing an unidentifiable object toward her.
00:49I was disgusted then, when I did it, I'm disgusted now.
00:52I went and I sought out professional help.
00:55I had to go into therapy, I had to go into rehab, I had to ask God for his mercy and
01:02grace.
01:03I'm so sorry."
01:04Ventura's attorney, Douglas H. Wigder, said on Sunday, in part, that Combs' most recent
01:10statement is more about himself than the many people he has hurt.
01:14When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested
01:18that his victims were looking for a payday.
01:20On Friday, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said in a statement that they were
01:24aware of the video and that they find the images extremely disturbing and difficult
01:28to watch, but that we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond
01:33the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted.
01:36The two parties were romantically involved for over a decade.
01:40In November, Ventura filed a lawsuit claiming that the music mogul trapped her for a decade
01:44in a cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking.
01:48Ventura and Combs reached an undisclosed settlement and the case was dismissed the day after it
01:52was filed.
01:53Combs has since faced multiple new lawsuits this year accusing him of rape, sexual assault,
01:58and sex trafficking.
01:59He has denied all of the allegations.
02:02In March, his Miami and Los Angeles homes were raided by Homeland Security.
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