Sean Combs trial updates: 'Mia' details several 'violent' encounters with Combs

Sean Combs turned 45 on Nov. 4, 2014, and "Mia" made him a scrapbook with a handwritten card, which was shown in court.

"Happy 45th birthday, Puff Daddy" the top of the page said in bold red letters. The text continued in black pen. "Puff! Sometimes life goes by at catastrophic speeds where you never get to live in and enjoy 'now,'" the note read. "I hope on this day you get to sit back and take it all in."

The card came with a collection of magazine articles from 1991 to 1999 "that I hope will stir up nostalgic feelings."

"The man who you say has ruined your life, this is what you write to him?" Steel asked. "It's called psychological abuse," "Mia" testified.

"How did you find any goodness with Mr. Combs after what you described to the ladies and gentlemen of this jury?" Steel asked. "Easily," "Mia" told the court. "The second it went back to good, I was elated. I was searching for that kind of approval. It was an abusive relationship."

"Mia" told to the jury, "I was young and manipulated and eager to survive. I'm unraveling a lot of this now in therapy. Nobody was there to say these things that were happening were wrong. There was nobody around us that ever even flinched at his behavior."

Steel's cross-examination grew louder.

"Isn't it true that Mr. Combs never had unwanted, nonconsensual forcible sexual contact with you, isn't that true? Steel asked. "What I said in this courtroom is the truth," "Mia" testified.

"Then why, if you're being sexually assaulted and your sister is being brutalized physically, are you making a scrapbook for Mr. Combs?" Steel asked, referring to Cassie Ventura, with whom "Mia" said she had a sister-like relationship.

"It's a lot more complicated than the way you framed that," "Mia" testified. "Ask any abuse victim's advocate and they could explain it to you much better than I could."

After "Mia" testified that working for Sean Combs caused her "complex, severe PTSD," the defense on cross-examination tried to offer to the jury a different look at her tenure through her social media posts.

The posts, full of emphatic praise and multiple exclamation points, showed "Mia" posing with Combs, calling him a legend and thanking him for being her friend, all in the years after she alleged he repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

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"That's the person who has traumatized you?" defense attorney Brian Steel asked. "Yes," Mia testified. "Physically?" he asked. "Yes," she testified. "Sexually?" Steel continued. "Yes," Mia testified. "That's the legend?" Steel concluded his sequence. "Yes," "Mia" told the court.

A post from Nov. 4, 2015, Combs' birthday, Steel called "the anniversary of when he sexually assaulted you."

"Mia" testified, "I didn't recognize that date as a celebration."

"How is that not a significant date in your mind?" Steel asked. "It was Puff's birthday. That was what the date was and I tried to forget that, shoved it down," "Mia" testified.

In the post, "Mia" called Combs "Legend, King, Bad Boy for life" and said, "Thank you for showing me the path to Pluto and beyond."

"You just put aside, you're telling this jury, that you were sexually assaulted?" Steel asked. "Yes, absolutely," "Mia" testified.

"You put aside that Mr. Combs made you go sleepless for five days when you got physically ill?"

"Yes."

"You put aside that Mr. Combs went into your bedroom, gets on top of you and does the unthinkable?"

"Yes."

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Asked if he would consider pardoning Sean "Diddy" Combs, if convicted, as the hip-hop mogul stands trial in Manhattan federal court, President Donald Trump said, "Nobody's asked, but I know people are thinking about it."

"I don't know. I would certainly look at the facts," Trump said. "If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact on me."

Trump said he believes "some people have been very close to asking" about a pardon.

"First of all, I look at what's happening, and I haven't been watching it too closely, although it's certainly getting a lot of coverage," he said.

Trump added that he hasn't spoken to Combs in years.

On Nov. 4, 2014, five years after "Mia" alleged Sean Combs first sexually assaulted her, as defense attorney Brian Steel pointed out, "Mia" posted a birthday wish to Combs.

"Thank you for being the good kind of crazy," the message read. "Thank you for being a friend and bringing friends into my life."

"At this point you have taken in so much trauma from him, that's what you told the jury, right?" Steel asked. "Yes I have but again it was, when the highs were high the good was good," "Mia" testified.

"Sean Combs' conduct toward you, sexual abuse toward you, has made you broken, right?" Steel asked. "The sexual abuse was part of the ways that he ruined me, yes. There are many other ways," "Mia" told the court.

"On the fifth anniversary of the initial sexual abuse you are saying on your social media for everyone to see, 'Thank you for being the good kind of crazy,'" Steel noted.

"I want to highlight the highs. I don't think people wrote bad stuff on Instagram back then," "Mia" testified.

"Why would you promote the person who has stolen your happiness in life?" Steel asked.

"Those were the only people I was around so that was my life. You had to promote it," "Mia" testified. "It was a very confusing cycle of ups and downs."

"Mia" told the court she did not get to see or talk to her friends or family. "There was absolutely no time. Also, I had to get permission to do anything," "Mia" testified.

The defense showed "Mia" several posts from Burning Man, where she previously testified Combs forced her to take ketamine.

One post, from 2015, said, "Watching the man burn with the man who introduced me to it all...We love you."

Steel questioned "Mia," "Mr. Combs, you tell the jurors, forced you take drugs against your will, remember that?" "Mia" testified, "I do."

Steel followed up, "And you're thanking Mr. Combs and others for giving you another incredible experience?" Mia testified, "Yes."

When "Mia" testified that she tried to forget the trauma she accused Combs of inflicting, Steel repeated her account of Combs allegedly "slamming" Cassie Ventura's head into a bed frame and asked, "How do you forget that?"

"You don't forget that. You're punished for reacting to it. You're terrified to bring it up again," "Mia" testified.