Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, the ex-partner of Sean “Diddy” Combs, told jurors on Wednesday that she hid the extent of the abuse she suffered at the hands of Combs from relatives and friends. Ventura testified that Combs abused her early in the couple’s relationship and told jurors that Combs “knocked me around and was just hitting me” in a 2007 incident.

Prosecutors have accused Combs of exploiting his status as a powerful music executive to violently force women into drugged-up sex parties he called “freak offs.”