Child Cudi ‘Glad’ to Put ‘Traumatic’ Diddy Trial Behind Him After Testifying

Scott Mescudi, identified professionally as Child Cudi, was known as to testify within the case, sharing what he allegedly witnessed whereas he dated Cassie VenturaDiddy’s girlfriend who has accused him of assault within the time they have been collectively.

After he was dismissed, he went to social media to thank buddies and followers for his or her assist. The video cannot be embedded, however will be seen right here.

“I have been seeing all of the love and assist and I simply wish to say thanks a lot, man,” Mescudi started. “Folks have been hitting me up the previous week, simply checking in and even in the present day. It actually means quite a bit to me man. You guys are the very best, I like you all.”

He then addressed the trial, saying, “It is a annoying scenario, I am glad it is behind me. I like y’all man. Huge love. Go stream (his newest single) ‘Neverland.'”

Throughout his testimony, Mescudi set the timeline of his relationship with Ventura, saying they met in 2008 and dated round 2011. He knew on the time that “she and Sean Combs had some issues they usually weren’t relationship anymore.”

In December 2011, Mescudi mentioned he acquired a frantic telephone name from Ventura, telling him that Combs had found they have been relationship. He described her as “actually shook” about him “lastly figuring out that we had been hanging out and that he had my deal with and he was in all probability going to go to my home.”

Ventura additionally advised him that Combs was abusive, per testimony, saying he was advised that Combs “would hit her, generally kick her.” He mentioned he was not advised about any potential sexual abuse.

Mescudi mentioned he was confused by this as he did not assume she and Combs have been concerned anymore, however “she sounded actually harassed on the telephone, nervous, scared, so I went to go choose her up.”

In accordance with Mescudi’s testimony, he and Ventura went to a close-by lodge and spoke with an worker of Combs named Capricorn Clark. Mescudi mentioned that Clark appeared “very scared” and “on the verge of tears” as she advised him that Combs and two of his associates have been inside Mescudi’s home.

“She was compelled to go together with them over there,” Mescudi testified, saying that Clark was on the telephone whereas within the automobile exterior. So Mescudi mentioned he headed again residence and known as Combs, asking him, “Motherf–ker, are you in my home?”

Combs admitted he was at Mescudi’s residence, telling him, “I simply wish to speak to you. I am over right here ready for you.”

Mescudi mentioned that he later realized that issues had occurred in his residence whereas he was gone. He mentioned he observed his safety cameras had been moved. Items he’d purchased for his household had been opened and have been on the kitchen counter, whereas his canine was locked in a rest room. There was no obvious harm to the home.

However Combs wasn’t there, Mescudi mentioned. When he reached out, Combs advised him “he was on his method.” After seeing what had occurred in his home, Mescudi admitted, “I wished to confront him. I wished to combat him.”

After calming himself a bit, although, he mentioned he remembers realizing, “I don’t know who he has with him. I don’t know what his intentions are.” So as an alternative, he reached out to the police and filed a police report concerning the obvious break-in.

Regardless of all of this, Mescudi mentioned he and Ventura spent the vacations collectively together with her household in Connecticut, throughout which Combs once more mentioned he wished to speak to him through texts. “I assume he was at nighttime about issues and wished to speak, however at that time, post-break-in, I did not wish to speak,” Mescudi testified.

After detailing an alleged break-in at his home after Combs came upon about his relationship with Ventura, Mescudi moved on to the headline-making explosion of his Porsche the next month.

In January 2012, Mescudi mentioned that his canine watcher known as him from residence sooner or later to inform him his automobile was on fireplace. The pal despatched him photographs, which the jury was in a position to see. Mescudi, who was about 45 minutes away on the time, described it as “Molotov cocktail” harm — and mentioned his response was, merely, “What the f–k.”

“It appears to be like like the highest of my Porsche was minimize open, and that’s the place the Molotov cocktail was put in,” he mentioned on the stand. One was discovered by police within the driver’s seat.

Whereas he mentioned in courtroom that he believed Combs was behind the automobile fireplace, the protection argued hypothesis and had this a part of his testimony eliminated. On cross-examination, Mescudi was requested if he knew that the DNA taken from his automobile after the fireplace belonged to a girl. Mescudi mentioned he by no means heard again from authorities on the outcomes.

After the automobile fireplace, Mescudi mentioned issues have been “getting out of hand” and so he once more reached out to Combs and “lastly advised him that we wanted to satisfy up, to speak.” He mentioned that Combs had been wanting to speak, so it was time to have that dialog.

He mentioned he arrived to search out Combs already on the lodge, “standing there, staring out the window together with his palms behind his again, like a Marvel supervillain.”

“We mentioned just about the entire story about how me and Cassie first began so far to what it was to the way it ended,” mentioned Mescudi, including that he advised Combs he took Ventura at her phrase when she mentioned she and Combs have been now not concerned.

He testified that he discovered Combs’ calm demeanor throughout this assembly “off-putting” because the rapper denied any involvement within the automobile fireplace. “I do not know what you are speaking about,” Combs advised him, per Mescudi’s testimony, when requested about it.

He mentioned that, at this response, he pulled his hand out of a handshake with Combs, who mentioned, “Wait, I assumed we have been cool.” Mescudi’s response was to once more allege that Combs was behind the burning of his automobile, however Combs gave “his phrase” he had nothing to do with it.

As for Ventura, Mescudi mentioned, “I used to be upset to search out that she had type of went again to him.” He mentioned that she arrived on the assembly and “defined we fell in love and issues simply occurred.”

Mescudi and Ventura broke up in December 2011 due to all the drama, which he mentioned received to be an excessive amount of. He was involved for her security, he mentioned, in addition to his personal, “as a result of I knew Sean Combs was violent.” He mentioned it was determined to finish issues there as a result of “the drama was too out of hand and to provide her some house.”

When the connection did finish, Mescudi mentioned that he and Ventura “simply stopped speaking” after near-daily communication for a 12 months straight. He was requested in cross-examination, “She performed you, proper?” To this, Mescudi replied, “Sure.”

In actual fact, when protection lawyer Brian Steele requested if it was Ventura who performed each him and Combs, Mescudi responded, “True.” He additionally agreed that Ventura was “dwelling a double life” with each males.

Mescudi mentioned the largest shock got here years later when he bumped into Combs in 2015. In accordance with his testimony, Combs pulled him apart and mentioned, “Man, I simply wish to apologize for all the things and all that bulls–t.” Mescudi mentioned he was in a position to “discover peace” after this.

“That was the very last thing I used to be anticipating to get from him,” he mentioned.

With that, he was excused from the stand.

Diddy has been charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to interact in prostitution. He is maintained his innocence.

The trial will proceed Tuesday, following the vacation weekend.