Sean “Diddy” Combs’ recent ex-girlfriend says she cried for three days after reading a lawsuit filed by R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura against the music mogul.

Sean “Diddy” Combs once threw a knife that came “pretty close” to hitting his one-time girlfriend Cassie Ventura, a witness just told jurors. Bryana “Bana” Bongolan — a friend of Ventura’s — recounted a time she saw the Bad Boy Records founder get violent toward his longtime on-and-off girlfriend.

In this op-ed, Mags Lesiak, a criminologist specializing in domestic violence, takes on criticism of Cassie Ventura after her testimony in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial. When Casandra Ventura was 19, she met 37-year-old Sean “Diddy” Combs,