00:00It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life.
00:05Sometimes you got to do that.
00:08Sean Diddy Combs is apologizing for a recently surfaced 2016 video,
00:12which sees him attacking his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura.
00:17Diddy took to Instagram on Sunday to own up to the incident.
00:20I was f***ed up.
00:22I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses.
00:26My behavior on that video is inexcusable.
00:30The surveillance video obtained by CNN shows Combs holding a towel around his waist,
00:35running after 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,
00:44kicking her, 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.
00:54I had to go into therapy, I had to go into rehab, I had to ask God for his mercy and grace.
01:03I'm so sorry.
01:05Ventura's attorney, Douglas H. Wigdor, said on Sunday in part that Combs' most recent statement
01:10is more about himself than the many people he has hurt.
01:14When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims
01:19were looking for a payday.
01:20On Friday, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said in a statement that they were aware of the video
01:25and that they find the images extremely disturbing and difficult to watch,
01:29but that we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline
01:34where a crime of assault can be prosecuted.
01:36The two parties were romantically involved for over a decade.
01:39In 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 was filed.
01:53Combs has since faced multiple new lawsuits this year, accusing him of rape, sexual assault, and 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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