Hey everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious. It is day 14 of the federal

trial against Sean Diddy Combs, and it was brutal. And nowhere was that more clear than on

cross-examination.

The defense eviscerated, the woman known only as Mia.

That's her pseudonym.

They basically threw everything at her, her text messages, her timelines, her videos,

accusations of lying, manipulation, even greed.

They said her story didn't add up, that she never mentioned sexual assault until she hired a lawyer and that her words were just part of a quote,

Me Too, money grab. But Mia did not back down. She told the jury that she was brainwashed

and that for years she didn't even

realized all that she'd been through and that everything the defense pointed to, the birthday

texts, the glowing praise of ditty, the silence, all of that was the result of psychological

control.

And that reminds me of a story that I covered at length that had to do with psychological control.

And it had to do with sex crimes and racketeering and emotional, financial, physical control over people.

And you probably have heard of this story too.

It's the story of the nexium cult, right?

Keith Reneery was the head of the nexium cult.

And all these people below him just fell hook, line, and sinker for

everything he was selling. You know, it was supposed to be a self-help cult, but really it just

kind of like devolved into this pyramid scheme of controlling all these people, mostly women.

And it got to a point where the women were actually branded and still followed this guy, even though he was kind of having sex with all of them.

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