Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial updates: Cassie Ventura breaks down as testimony concludes

Cassie Ventura returned to the witness stand for a fourth day Friday to continue cross-examination.

She took her seat wearing a baggy pin-striped suit and long, untucked light-colored shirt. She appeared calm and composed, as she has throughout her testimony.

"You understand you are still under oath?" Judge Arun Subramanian asked her. "Yes," she replied.

The expectation is this will be Ventura’s last day on the witness stand after prosecutors argued she could give birth as soon as this weekend. Ventura is eight months pregnant.

Prosecutors accused the defense of being inefficient with cross-examination on purpose, hoping to "risk a mistrial," if she goes into labor. The defense argues that they should have the right to thoroughly cross-examine the witness.

The testimony picked up where it left off Thursday, at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City where Ventura testified there was a "freak off" in 2016 she attempted to escape after she alleged Combs became violent prior to the premiere of her movie "The Perfect Match."

“I believe that he was intoxicated,” Ventura testified, describing Combs during the encounter. She then read a message she sent him afterwards: "When you get f----- up the wrong way you always want to show me you have the power and knock me around. I’m not a rag doll. I’m someone’s child."

The defense has argued Combs became violent because of his drug use and not as a means to strong-arm Ventura into sex.

Cassie Ventura has taken the witness stand for the fourth consecutive day to continue her cross-examination in the trial against her ex-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Defense lawyers for Sean Combs are trying to prolong their cross-examination of Cassie Ventura into next week, hoping to "risk a mistrial if the witness goes into labor," federal prosecutors said in an overnight letter to the judge.

The letter pointed to the "inefficiency" of the defense cross examination as proof the defense "hopes to accomplish precisely that outcome."

Prosecutor's argued that Ventura was often made to read long excerpts of text messages with no real question, an approach prosecutors called a "filibuster" and asked the judge to order the defense to finish by 4:30 Friday, allowing a half hour for re-direct.

Prosecutors said defense counsel has known for weeks about Ventura’s pregnancy and they earlier told the judge Ventura could have her baby as soon as this weekend.

The defense argues that they should have the right to thoroughly cross-examine the witness.

The jury saw Cassie Ventura’s text messages from the days leading to the premiere of "The Perfect Match," about which she previously testified, and her "freak off" with Sean Combs at the InterContinental Hotel in March 2016.

“Thank you,” Ventura said after defense attorney Anna Estevao said she would spare Ventura from reading the explicit texts aloud.

At the time, Ventura said, Combs was not feeling well. The defense suggested he could have been suffering the effects of drug withdrawal in the days before the assault that was captured by hotel surveillance cameras.

The defense also suggested it was Ventura who pushed the idea of a "freak off" before the movie premiere, pointing to one message in which Ventura told Combs, “Baby I want to f.o. so bad but I don’t want to f--- myself up. What am I to do?”

“You proposed a 'freak off,'” Estevao said. “You kept asking him.”

The defense suggested Combs could have become violent during the "freak off" at the Century City InterContinental because he and Ventura took bad drugs.

“The drugs that you and Mr. Combs took that day were a bad batch of MDMA, right?” Estevao said.

“I have no idea,” Ventura testified.

Court has adjourned for the day. Ventura will return to the stand Friday.