Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award-winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, St.S. Nation? Welcome to Surviving the Survivor. It is the show that brings you the very best guests in all of true crime on trending criminal cases, and there is not a

bigger trial. I don't care what you care and readers say in America right now than the Sean

Diddy Combs trial. There is global media, and I can tell you that firsthand because I was there

all last week in the courtroom. Today, we heard from a slew of witnesses.

The first few days, it was primarily Cassie Ventura herself.

Today, we did hear from her mother, Regina Ventura,

who opened up about just how difficult this is,

understandably on her entire family.

We also heard from the Punisher, a male escort, who partook in these forced sex torture

sessions, which is how our psychologist referred to it yesterday.

We'll get Roger Rhodes' take on that in a minute.

Early in the day, we heard from Sean Combs,

former assistant for two, two and a half years,

a guy named David James, who got emotional a few times.

And lastly, on the stand today,

we heard from the special Homeland Security,

the special agent in charge of the raid

on Sean Diddy Combs, Miami Beach home as well as the

LA home and some of the things that they found there. And then a question, a special question I have

for the psychologist, why on earth does Sean Diddy Combs like applesauce on his cheeseburgers?

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