The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Judge Gives Diddy A Warning, Bill Maher Backlash, and More Meghan Markle Mania
Fri, 6 Jun 2025
Maureen breaks down all the latest in the jaw dropping details from the Diddy trial with Daily Mail Correspondent, Kayla Brantley. She also dives into the backlash for Bill Maher through abuse testimonials and words of criticism from The Nerve audience emails. And then Maureen is joined by entertainment reporter, Kinsey Schofield, to discuss Meghan Markle's attention seeking behavior and Instagram posts.Firecracker Farm: Visit https://firecracker.FARM & enter code Thenerve at checkout for a special discount!Aware House: Visit https://awarehouseshop.com/discount/THENERVE & use code THENERVE for 15% off your first order.
Chapter 1: What are the latest developments in the Diddy trial?
Hey, and welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve. We have an incredible show for you guys today. Diddy Trial is going into week five. Today is the wrap-up of week four. We have Daily Mail reporter Kayla Brantley, who has been covering this case since the very beginning, is going to be joining us in just a moment. We have a Bill Maher follow-up, which, I mean,
It was really something, and we're all going to discuss it. And there is some levity to be found here, okay? Trust me. We've got feedback on our And Just Like That recap slash group trauma bond. And the one and only Kinsey Schofield will be joining us to talk about that video, that twerking video, okay? But first, we are getting into it with Diddy and the Diddy Trial. Welcome, Kayla.
Thank you for joining us at The Nerve. Thank you, Maureen. Always happy to be here. So I would like to start with you with this bombshell testimony on Wednesday by a woman named Brianna. Banna's her nickname, Bongolin. She's a close friend of Cassie Ventura's. She testified that in September 2016, she was staying with Cassie at her L.A. apartment. Sean Combs shows up. Bongolin asks him to leave.
Chapter 2: What bombshell testimony was revealed in the Diddy trial?
He responds by chasing Bongolin out to the balcony. He comes up from behind her. He lifts her up. This woman's 5'1". She weighs 100 pounds, soaking wet. He dangles her off the balcony for a good 10 to 15 seconds, yelling at her the whole time. I believe saying something like, I know what the fuck you did. He's 5'10 and weighs 190 pounds, reportedly. This woman...
He pulls her up after, again, 10 to 15 seconds of dangling her off a 17-story balcony and flings her into the outdoor furniture. Now, Bill Maher might say that, you know, it's just the cost of doing business in the music industry, but Kayla and I are going to talk about it with the seriousness it deserves. This woman also testified that rumor around...
This circle was that Diddy had skinned a rival's dog, Kayla. Oh, and by the way, we have to start off with the first thing, which is the judge gave Diddy a big fat smackdown today in court or yesterday in court. Yeah, please tell us all about that.
Chapter 3: What warning did the judge give Diddy?
OK, we will start there with the judge, Judge Aaron Subramanian. He said that he noticed Diddy looking at the jury twice and nodding vigorously. And then he told Diddy's attorney that this is absolutely unacceptable and basically threatened that if it continues to happen, he will have Diddy removed from court and that he can no longer attend his own trial.
So Judge Aaron Subramanian was not a happy camper today and he made it known.
What do you know during what testimony and what was being said that Sean Combs had the gall? Again, this to me is a criminal mind at work. We don't follow rules. We're in federal court. We don't follow rules. Had the gall to look over at that jury not once but twice and nod strenuously, definitively. Yeah.
This was during the cross-examination of Breonna Bongolin. And Diddy's defense attorney came in hot this entire time. It was Nicole West Merlin who was doing the cross-examination of Breonna. And she really attacked her credibility, brought up all the receipts from her previous discussions with prosecutors to her testimony yesterday and today.
And Diddy appeared to completely agree with his attorney and really support her. And I guess at that point, he started looking at the jury and was nodding like, yeah, see, she's lying, which is basically what his attorney was trying to get across.
Now, it's important to note here that that's a tactic, you know, to have a female defense attorney really go hard against a female witness who's hostile, who's testifying against you. From what I was reading of what happened during her testimony, it was they were breaking apart a bit more. her credibility in terms of, Hey, weren't you on a shit ton of drugs when this happened?
Hey, don't you like, like, aren't you misremembering Sean Combs? You know, there are hotel receipts, which I could, you could blow a hole in this really, but there are hotel receipts showing him at like the Trump international and you've got him in LA. Yeah.
Yeah, that's exactly what they were saying. I mean, Breonna testified that she and Cassie would do a lot of drugs together and she would even sell Cassie drugs. But what was really, you know, their gotcha moment for the prosecution was that she had testified that this happened on or about September 26, 2016. But then...
At that time, the defense attorney brought out receipts showing that Diddy was in New York at the Trump International, and she showed his order, his room service. However, that was under the name Frank Black, which is an alias that Diddy uses often. And she asked, you know, do you agree that people can't be in two places at once? To which point, you know, Breonna said, I don't know.
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Chapter 4: What are the reactions to Bill Maher's comments on domestic violence?
I read that she testified that he... once yelled at her for, she was tasked with counting the money in his safe. I forget where in the world this was. And that she was doing it too slowly. And he said to her, wait, I have the quote right here. He said to her, you better learn to walk on water like Jesus did, bitch. Then he ordered her out of his sight.
She said the highs were really high, but the lows were really, really low. This is unbelievable. So she's testifying. These women who are testifying, Kayla, under pseudonyms, are they required physically to be in the courtroom where he can see them?
Oh, absolutely. They are sitting right in front of him. So when you look at the setup of the court, there's a witness stand, of course, that's right next to the judge. Diddy is in, he's in about the third row. So there's teams of attorneys. He's back in the third row, but you have a clear view of him. So I know when Cassie was testifying, he didn't really look
at her directly in the eye but you know she could see him and when these witnesses are testifying he's you know writing things down he's whispering to his attorneys and you know apparently he's nodding at the jury now i also read that um during the testimony of uh bongolin
when she was describing, tell me if I'm right, when she was describing being dangled off a balcony, allegedly, her testimony, that Diddy was also looking over at the jury and they were all expressionless.
Yeah. So throughout this trial, the jury really has remained calm, cool, collective. They haven't really shown much of a reaction, which is very good on them. They're listening to some very disturbing details. However, I was in the court overflow room yesterday during this testimony. And to explain what that is, basically, you have to line up super early. They have
line professional line holders to get into the courtroom. And then once that fills up, they bring you into another courtroom, which is empty except for, you know, the gallery and their screens that are live streaming what's going on in court. In there, there are some journalists, you know, who I recognize, who I know. They take all of your electronics before you get in.
So it's paper and pen and highlighters, just like the old days. But then there were people, members of the public who were there. Lots of what I would say from what I observed, Diddy supporters. There were times when Brianna Bongolin was testifying and when she was under cross-examination. You know, they asked her something where it appeared she was caught in a lie.
And at one point I saw a guy turn around and say to his friend, oh, she's lying. She's lying. Which, of course, is not allowed. We are in a federal courtroom, whether it's where the court is actually happening or in the overflow room. And there was a guard who told everyone to simmer down.
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Chapter 5: How are the allegations against Diddy affecting his reputation?
Anyway, Sean Deering gave this interview and then he said something like, you know, he thought Cassie was a decent person and he got very concerned for her because whenever Diddy would leave the room, when Sean would go to ask Cassie a question, she would say, no, no, you have to wait till he comes back before I can speak to you. Um,
You know, so that gives a lot of credence to to what Cassie is alleging here. Also, the Punisher, you know, we all went through his book doing great. This is great for him. He's doing the podcast rounds. He's doing the media circuit. His book is like zooming up the Amazon charts. You know, people are going to emerge from this, I think, a little bit better than when they went into it.
But I also I want to end this. I want to end this segment with a video that has surfaced of Sean Combs with Cassie. This is years and years and years ago. I don't have the exact date, but it's early on in her career. I think this was after she performed on BET, and he's decided that he's gonna offer his critique. Take a look.
Homegirl Cassie right here, she had a semi, no, I would say it was a whack show. She had a whack, she had a pretty whack show on BET. You know, did not perform at the level of the bad boy excellence, I would say.
For those of you who might not know, like whack is an old school hip hop term. People don't really throw it around anymore, but it means like she fucked up. She sucked. She was really bad. He said, you know, she's not at the level of a bad boy performer, but you know, we'll get her there. And to the Bill Mars of the world, and we're going to get there too. We have a lot to discuss there.
That is exactly how an abuser starts off grooming their prey, right? You gas them up a little bit and then you slide the knife in with an insult meant to really level you like that's what she wanted more than anything. She wanted to be a performer. He's leveling her. And then in the back end, he's saying, but we're going to bring her up to our level.
So he's like making you feel special while also. making you feel completely humiliated. He's doing that on camera for a reason. And she has to sit there and take it and smile. Like it's not affecting her. Like it's not making her question every single life decision she's made up until this point. And how many people are going to see this? That's what they do. Okay.
That's just a tiny glimpse into that world. Up next, we are going to get into you guys and your response to to this Bill Maher bit that we did the other day on our last show, taking him to the woodshed for what he dared to say about victims of domestic violence. Then we'll be reading your other mail. We'll be back in a minute.
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Chapter 6: What insights do we have on Meghan Markle's behavior?
Then the least you can do is not hump around on the internet for what? For clicks? For likes? I mean, what is the objective of sharing this video?
I think the objective is exact. I think it's a huge F you to the Royal family, because as you said, it's so distinctly unroyal. It's not even like, here's like something that maybe feels a little bit too intimate that we're sharing. You know, it's, it's like, you know, if it, if it were Megan post late post birth, whatever, um, it's actually, to me, it's the equivalent of the deep mocking curtsy.
I mean, it's a million times worse, but the deep mocking curtsy that Meghan gave while her sad excuse for a husband sat blithely by, idly by, I should say, not blithe. He looked pained, but he sat there idly by while she made fun of his grandmother, who, as you said, gave her life in service, a job she never wanted and she didn't ask for, but she took it because she really had,
a deep abiding respect for what the monarchy is and represents and as you said you know that reminds me with the reporting out of the palace was that when she was informed what they had named their daughter that queen elizabeth who is not given as many brits are not to self-pity said they have taken the only thing that was entirely mine Right.
And now we're going to associate the name Lilibet with her gyrating all over the Internet for free 99. I mean, she didn't even get paid for this. You know, maybe Metta will cut her some deal for all the traffic she's sending them their way. But I you know, it's so vulgar. It's so gross. It's not cute. And it just gives you a real idea of how desperate she is to constantly stay in the headlines.
She loves that we're talking about her right now. This is what she lives for. This is the oxygen that she needs is attention, whether it's good or bad. Who are you trying to attract here? But also, speaking of Netflix... I think it's also important that we acknowledge that around this time, they are secretly recording for Netflix.
Remember that video of Prince Harry getting excited because he's getting on his Tyler Perry freedom flight. He's recording himself. The Doria footage, Doria is shooting the intimate footage of Harry and Meghan watching their Oprah interview for the first time. Doria following them around as friends. as Harry's getting text messages from Prince William. So was this recorded?
It's almost grosser when you imagine that it's recorded for Netflix and it's not some cute little intimate thing that they recorded for each other. And Megan just decided to share with the world to honor her daughter on her fourth birthday. Like get out of here.
That's the excuse. I'm honoring my daughter. Like It's just all about you. I mean, first of all, there's a lot of online chatter as to the veracity of a lot of this. Like, was she even pregnant during this time? Was it a surrogate? Like, how is she allowed in what is meant to seem to us a labor and delivery room wearing her street clothes and her jewelry? You know, I've had medical professionals.
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Chapter 7: What are the audience reactions to the show 'And Just Like That'?
So Kinsey, was she operating like, because this is stuff that most of us regular people in the world really aren't aware of. Was this woman operating like a high-end birthing facility that's like private?
Yes, in Santa Barbara. And now she has recently... reopened in some capacity, but she had to shut down temporarily, said she was going to go spend time with her friends. She wanted to spend more time with her friends and family. And it was later revealed, thanks to your friends at the Daily Mail, that she actually had to shut down because of multiple lawsuits.
And we don't know the particulars.
A baby died. That's as far as I know. Yeah. Yeah. That's as far as I know. One of the lawsuits that she fought against and she's come back. But again, this is now years, three, four years after Lily's birth that she's finally getting back on her feet again.
So, you know, this, we, we touched on this, I think on your show the other day, but we know it's bad now. Like we know that things are, yes, there is ode to desperation. You know, that's the, that's the mushroom cloud around these two. It's so desperate.
And I was thinking, you know, on Wednesday when this dropped and it, you know, of course all the entertainment shows picked it up and they're running it like it's normal and like it's cute. And like, that's why we here at The Nerve, to say no, to push back, to say this is a bunch of, this is freaky shit. And it's completely an F you to the royal family.
And it's, I mean, Charles will not strip these titles, but I now think there is zero question. William is going to strip these titles immediately. It will be his first order of business. Please, we're begging you. We are, we are begging you. Know that you're friends in America.
find these two utterly distasteful and we see exactly what they're doing and we don't find them charming and we don't find them cute. We don't find them subversive. We find them repellent. And now we're seeing the children. Okay. Again, the children who we were never meant to see.
This is why we had to flee in the dead of night on Tyler Perry's private jet, which by the way, Megan in her bonus episode of her podcast with Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles, you and I discussed that plenty. So we won't revisit it here. But those two have a little sidebar where they're like, you know what makes a day better? Tyler Perry and his chat. Just saying, isn't it great?
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