For the third consecutive day, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex partner, Cassie Ventura, is on the witness stand. However, instead of testifying for the prosecution, she is now being cross-examined by the defence.

Ventura maintains that she was abused and mistreated by Combs during their 11-year-long relationship, being forced to engage in demeaning sexual activities known as “Freak-Offs” at the various parties that her then-boyfriend hosted. However, Diddy’s lawyers maintain that any and all actions that Ventura did were entirely consensual and therefore not illegal.

Combs’ defence is countering the nine straight hours that Ventura previously spent denouncing their client. Much of their argument centred on the fact that despite all of the supposed turmoil and humiliation inflicted upon her, Ventura never officially reported or expressed objections.

In fact, she has admitting to enjoying participating in the sordid escapades and there is even a text message of her instigating a “ Freak-Off”.

As this case goes on, it is shaping up to be more a situation of domestic abuse rather than the charges laid against Sean Combs looking likely to stick. So far, there is nothing to substantiate the racketeering charge.

To date, what Cassie Ventura has painted is a picture of lovers who had a fetish for unconventional entanglements and voyeuristic proclivities- all of which was consensual.. She said she loved Combs and liked to please him. Her testimony to date doesn’t give the impression she was forced against her will or that she had a gun at her head. She liked the high life and being Diddy’s paramour. One can see some comparisons here with Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that outsold the Bible that was turned into a movie.

At the time when Combs and Ventura first met, the former was 36, whilst the latter was 19. Ventura has stated that Combs her first sexual intercourse experience was with Combs and that she was both browbeaten into submission and unaware of how to respond to her mistreatment. According to the prosecution, this is a clear sign that Diddy engage in ‘grooming’ behaviour to make his then partner complicit in his sexual escapades.

The judge for the trial, Arun Subramanian, has stated that he is not pleased by the defence’s protracted cross-examination of Ventura, citing that the length of time requested by Sean Combs’ lawyers to question the case’s premier witness was too long and inconsiderate of the fact that she is eight months pregnant.

It was a good day for the defence. What will Friday bring?