Sean “Diddy” Combs as soon as threw a bowl of spaghetti at his live-in assistant for attempting change her tampon, she recalled in wild testimony Thursday that additionally revealed the mogul’s “inappropriate” drug-taking habits.
The now-former assistant “Mia” — who testified anonymously as an alleged sexual assault sufferer of Combs — informed jurors in Manhattan federal courtroom that the scary pasta tossing incident unfolded at 3 a.m. in his Los Angeles dwelling.
The Unhealthy Boy Information founder manically informed her to “go get everybody,” however first she began heading to her bed room within the mansion the place she additionally lived — which made Combs upset.
“He went on a really humiliating rant in front of everybody,” she recalled. “There was blood dripping down my leg and I stated, ‘I’m on my interval. I simply want to vary my tampon.’
“He immediately had a bowl of spaghetti in his hand and he threw it at me and started aggressively cursing me out, like I had to get the hell out of his house.”
The bowl of spaghetti missed Mia by solely a pair arms lengths, and Combs chased his long-suffering assistant up stairs till she hid in a bush, she testified.
The absurd string of occasions is only one disturbing anecdote that Mia provided about her former boss throughout her first day on the witness stand in Combs’ intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial.
Mia testified Combs individually threw different issues at her — together with a pc and turkey meat — as she toiled below him from 2009 to 2017.
After the spaghetti throwing incident, Mia was informed by Combs’ human assets director that she was suspended with out pay — and never for the primary time as a result of she displeased her mercurial boss, she stated.
Combs additionally generally obtained excessive at “inappropriate” occasions akin to throughout a board assembly and as soon as throughout Chelsea Handler’s TV present, Mia recalled.
“There were a few times at the studio and there were a handful of times that stuck out to me where I thought this was an inappropriate time,” Combs’ former assistant Mia testified.
“Like one time was a board meeting, one time was going to the Chelsea Handler show,” Mia informed the jury. “There were just a few times where I was like ‘Oh, gosh when am I going to have to pull him to the side and say you look a little crazy at the moment.’”
Throughout a go to to Burning Man, Combs even orchestrated a drug “guessing game” utilizing white powders of cocaine, ketamine and MDMA, Mia testified.
Folks would take turns snorting the medicine, she stated.
However when it reached Mia, she stated obtained nervous and tried to take a faux snort of medicine. Combs’ tone started to vary “and he got close to my face and was upset that I just tried to fake it,” she testified.
Combs, 55, faces as much as life in jail if he’s convicted on prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, amongst different crimes. He has pleaded not responsible.
