Deborah Roberts
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I was just really surprised at how deeply people were invested in it.
If people could only see some of the emails we get back and forth,
And I'm on that chain when you're sending us emails about what just happened and what we can kind of expect.
It's really, really interesting.
Talk to me first before we get to Diddy about being even in that courtroom, because when he was arrested, that was one thing.
But just for you being in that courtroom and seeing things unfold and seeing these defendants as you got a chance to see Diddy for a long time.
White hair.
Over time.
Because this was a guy who was always put together.
If you ever saw, and I used to see Sean Diddy Combs out and about at different events, and he was always polished and dressed immaculately.
Yeah.
Well, I want to get to that in a second because that is what became a little bit, I guess, complicated at the end, what he was accused of and also what we heard about him.
But just talk to me a little bit about when you were assigned this story, because we heard and there have been rumblings that Sean Diddy Combs might be arrested.
And then, of course, that video came out, that horrific video of him assaulting Cassie Ventura.
And everybody was horrified by this.
What was that like for you, knowing that you were going to be covering that trial even before it started?
He wasn't in the spotlight as much recently.
Oh my gosh, those white parties that he would give in the Hamptons and everybody came to those parties.
Big names, big names, not just celebrities, but CEOs and all kinds of folks came to his parties.
That had nothing to do with the charges that he was facing.