True change cannot exist without acknowledging the harm one has caused. Claiming to have changed while continuing to defend the very behavior that led to incarceration is not accountability; it is avoidance. Mr. Combs repeatedly shifts between denying responsibility, seeking sympathy, and reshaping the narrative to suit his immediate needs. Real transformation is consistent, honest, and uncomfortable; it does not depend on who is watching or what outcome is desired. Until he confronts his actions as wrong and takes full responsibility, any claim of change is hollow.”

All of this trauma was compounded by the impact of my testimony at my abuser’s trial. The investigation and pre-trial process threw me back into a world I had spent years desperately trying to suppress.

Combs is the third major criminal conviction of an influential man in the entertainment world since 2020. Singer R. Kelly was convicted in 2021 for racketeering and sex trafficking, and in 2022 for child pornography. He is serving a combined sentence of 31 years in federal prison. Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was first convicted of rape and a criminal sex act in New York, which was overturned in 2024 and retried — leading to another conviction this year. A separate conviction in Los Angeles for sexual assault and rape still stands. Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the Los Angeles charges in 2022.

While the defense attorneys at trial suggested that my time with Combs was akin to a ‘great modern love story,’ nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing about this story is great, modern, or loving—this was a horrific decade of my life stained by abuse, violence, forced sex and degradation.

During my time with Combs, I was in a constant state of hypervigilance, as I was always anticipating demands for sex acts or otherwise fearing retribution for any perceived slight,

To Ms. Ventura and the other brave survivors that came forward, I want to say first: We heard you,

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