Sean Combs sex trafficking trial updates: Cassie's testimony ends after days of describing abuse

Cassie Ventura broke down on the witness stand as she described her participation in freak offs.

Ventura said she had just turned 22 when Sean Combs first proposed these marathon, drug-addled sex performances with male prostitutes and eventually, they "became almost weekly." She said it would be impossible to remember participating in all of them.

The average length was two or three days. She was awake the whole time, fueled by ecstasy, molly and cocaine given to her by Combs.

Darla Miles reports on the atmosphere in the courtroom as Cassie testified in the trial of Sean Combs.

"Who decided when a freak off was over?" prosecutor Emily Johnson asked.

"Ultimately that would be Sean," Ventura responded.

"Did you want to participate in every freak off?" Johnson asked

"No," Ventura answered. "I felt like it was all I was good for. It was disgusting. I felt humiliated. I didn't have the words for how horrible I really felt."

If she refused to participate, Combs "would be violent with me."

"His look would just change over. He would become a different person and I didn't know what was going to happen," Ventura said.

When Johnson asked if there was any part of the freak off she enjoyed, Ventura began to sob. She grabbed a tissue and, through tears, said "I thought it was the only time I could get."

The first freak-off occurred at one of the homes Combs was renting in Los Angeles. The jury saw a photo of the male escort who participated. Ventura did not remember his name. She said she wore "really high platform shoes" and a masquerade mask.

"Every freak off was directed by Sean. He knew specifically where he wanted everyone to be, the lighting," Ventura said.

The case against Combs also involves those around him and Johnson asked Ventura about associates Toni Fletcher and Kristina Khorram and security guards named Fahim and Uncle Paulie.

Ventura, who added a long camel coat to her witness stand wardrobe, recalled seeing guns in several of Combs' properties, "just laid out."

She recalled an evening when one of his employees told Combs record executive Shug Knight was nearby. Combs and others donned black clothing and guns.

"I was crying, I was screaming. Like, please don't do anything stupid," Ventura testified.

Cassie recalled an incident where Combs left her during a "freak off" at his Los Angeles home to confront rival record executive Suge Knight at Mel's Drive-In, a landmark diner nearby.

Combs sprang into action after his bodyguard came in and told him of Knight's whereabouts, she said. Combs and the bodyguard dressed in black clothes, grabbed guns from a safe and loaded into an SUV, she said.

"I was crying. I was screaming, like 'Please don't do anything stupid,'" Cassie testified. "I was really nervous for them. I didn't know what they were going to do."

She said, "It's like I wasn't even there."

Cassie said Combs later returned, but she didn't say if he told her what happened. It's unclear if he ended up encountering Knight at the diner.

"The freak offs became a job," she said, noting that other encounters took anywhere from 36 or 48 hours.

The marathon sessions frequently required periods of recovery from dehydration, fatigue and drug use, she said.

Before the trial paused for a 40-minute lunch break, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson pressed Cassie to explain what happened to her music career and the nine albums that were never released.

Cassie said she created hundreds of songs, some of which were released on the internet prior to "proper release and some just didn't see the light of day." Cassie testified that much of her week went toward the "freak offs."

"Freak offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again," she said.

As her relationship with Sean Combs went on Cassie Ventura told the jury "I began to experience a different side of him, which was his abusive side. But there was still love there."

She described worrying about his moods. "Make the wrong face and the next thing I knew I was getting hit in the face," she said.

Members of his security staff "kept an eye on me" and he would constantly call if she ignored him. At the same time, Ventura said she would get "insanely jealous" when she saw Combs with other women.

"I was insanely jealous but also super young, didn't get it at all. Young and jealous," she said. "I didn't get that he was him, as he would say,' I'm Puff Daddy and Puff Daddy has many women.'"

Combs appeared to look at Ventura as she entered the courtroom. She did not appear to look at him.

Ventura described moving to Los Angeles and living in apartments Combs paid for and the "stomach in knots" moments when he would drop by unannounced, not knowing if he was angry.

Though her recording contract with Bad Boy Records called for ten albums, she released only one. "If you're not releasing music you're not doing your job so the career was stifled," Ventura said.

"Why did you not release another album during this time?" prosecutor Emily Johnson asked.

"You're asking me?" Ventura responded in jest. "Plainly, the freak offs became a job where there was no space to do anything else but to recover and just try to feel normal again."

She said the sexual encounters with prostitutes typically lasted anywhere from 36 to 48 to 72 hours. The longest one lasted four days.

The court is on a lunch break. Ventura's testimony is expected to continue for the remainder of the day and beyond.