Roger Bonds, Diddy’s former longtime bodyguard, is speaking out once again with regard to the handful of sexual assault and abuse allegations lobbed against his ex-boss by Cassie in the bombshell lawsuit.
In a new video posted to his TikTok, Roger essentially confirmed an incident cited in Cassie’s suit, where she described a moment back in 2009 in Los Angeles where she was allegedly “stomped in the face” by Diddy after being spotted talking to another talent manager. Roger stepped in to try to calm the situation but he was unfortunately unsuccessful.
“In January 2009, after Mr. Combs learned that Ms. Ventura spoke to another music manager at a party in Los Angeles, he became enraged. She had hoped speaking to this manager would allow her to further grow her career, and that Mr. Combs would be happy for her, but instead he became extremely angry and pulled her out of the club where the party was taking place.
“In the car leaving the club, Mr. Combs beat Ms. Ventura, pushing her into a corner of the vehicle and stomping on her face. Mr. Combs’s security staff, Roger Bonds, tried to stop the beating, but was unable to deescalate the situation. When the car arrived at Mr. Combs’ residence, Ms. Ventura attempted to run away, but Mr. Combs followed her and proceeded to again kick her in the face. Ms. Ventura was bleeding profusely, and was ushered into Mr. Combs’ home, where she began to throw up from the violent assault.”
In his video, Roger explained how he used his diabetes diagnosis to get out of working for Diddy and expressed how he was ultimately fed up with being around the Bad Boy producer and witnessing his allegedly abusive antics towards Cassie.
“There was so many things wrong, so many things wrong with where I was at,” he said in part. It was so sickening. So it’s so many things that I’ve seen Cassie go through and there’s so many things I’ve seen other people go through. And I will speak on those things the same way Cassie said,” he said.
Later, in the video, he added: ““I was sick of everything that was going on around you,” he said in the video. “I was sick of having to cover up everything that you did. I was sick. Cassie spoke on it. She said, ‘Yeah, I jumped on it. I jumped in between it.’ That wasn’t the only time. It was other times, and it was other people.”