This is continuing coverage of United States versus Sean Diddy Combs from the Hidden

Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

Cassie Ventura didn't just walk into court and tell a story on day two of the Sean Diddy

Combs trial.

She walked into court eight and a half months pregnant and peeled back years of psychological manipulation,

emotional trauma, and what prosecutors say was a highly organized system of abuse. Her testimony

wasn't about salacious headlines. It was about how a young woman, once full of promise and talent,

allegedly became emotionally trapped in a relationship

that looked like luxury from the outside, but operated like a cage behind closed doors.

Today we're going to dive into that part of the story, the emotional prison, and help make sense

of what kind of control happens and why something like this, like Cassie, might stay in a situation.

So many people on the outside would look at it and say, just run. It's not that easy. Shavon,

Scott, psychotherapist, and author with us, Chavad, when Cassie said she stayed not because she wanted to,

but because she was afraid of

what would happen if she didn't. Can you walk us through the emotional psychology behind that

type of captivity? And what actually keeps someone locked into these relationships, even when the

abuse is happening in plain sight? Yeah, the way I look at Cassie at this point is the poor woman was a slave.

I mean, the idea that she experienced any autonomy when she was with him, I mean, she just

didn't have any.

It was horrifying to kind of peel the layers back and get to the amount of control that this guy had over

her. He really, I think, has a sense of himself as a god. And he was surrounded by other people

who validated that, who turned over control to him. And, you know, this thing about trauma bonding,

...