Thalia Graves has damaged her silence after accusing Sean “Diddy” Combs of a brutal rape on the Unhealthy Boy Information studio in 2001.
Graves filed a lawsuit on Tuesday (September 24), accusing Diddy and his former bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, of drugging and violently raping her. She additionally claimed he secretly recorded the alleged assault and shared it with others.
After submitting her lawsuit, Graves spoke at a press convention in Los Angeles alongside her legal professional Gloria Allred.
“The interior ache after being sexually assaulted has been extremely deep and onerous to place into phrases,” Graves mentioned. “It goes past simply the bodily hurt triggered in the course of the assault. It’s a ache that reaches into the very core of who I’m leaving emotional scars which will by no means absolutely heal.”
In her go well with, Graves, then 25 years outdated, claims she was lured to Diddy’s studio the place she was given a drink allegedly laced with a drug. The submitting states Graves briefly misplaced consciousness and awoke to seek out herself certain and restrained. She alleged Diddy and Sherman ignored her pleas for assist, subjecting her to brutal sexual abuse.
In 2023, Graves realized of the existence of a video of the alleged assault, compounding her emotional misery.
“Being blamed, questioned and threatened has oftentimes made me really feel nugatory, remoted and typically chargeable for what has occurred to me,” Graves mentioned.
“I’m emotionally scarred,” she defined, including, “I’m glad that [Combs] is locked up however that could be a short-term feeling of reduction.”
Diddy was arrested earlier this month on costs of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. The indictment described a protracted historical past of abuse and violence towards girls, bolstered by his enterprise empire’s assets, energy, and affect.
The indictment follows a number of lawsuits towards Diddy, pointing to a sample of predatory habits.
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