Cassie Asks Everyone to ‘Believe Victims the First Time’

Cassie Ventura has shared a new statement pursuing previous week’s launch of graphic 2016 footage in which Diddy is witnessed assaulting her. The singer thanks “family, buddies, strangers and those people I have however to meet” for their guidance, just before noting that the abuse she confronted is not only a individual problem — it is a pervasive one. “Domestic Violence is THE situation,” she wrote in the assertion posted to Instagram on May 23. “It broke me down to an individual I in no way thought I would grow to be. With a lot of tough perform, I am superior these days, but I will generally be recovering from my past.” Cassie then called on the public to imagine victims. “Thank you for everybody that has taken the time to consider this matter critically,” she wrote. “My only ask is that Anyone open your heart to believing victims the initially time. It takes a lot of heart to inform the reality out of a scenario that you have been powerless in. I offer you my hand to those that are even now residing in anxiety.”