Ana Navarro encouraged people to treat Sean “Diddy” Combs like a “social leper” after a 2016 video of him assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was released.
Navarro noted on Monday’s episode of “The View” that the Los Angeles Police Department could no longer charge the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper because of the statute of limitations, but that shouldn’t stop people from treating him differently.
“Look, the LAPD may not be able to charge him, but we are able to shun him, and he should be treated like the leper, the social leper and criminal he is,” she said.
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The political commentator, 52, explained that she expects to not “see him in any restaurant” or “award show,” and she won’t buy anything from “any brand he’s associated with.”
“I think this guy should be treated and pay horrible social consequences,” she doubled down.
Navarro also slammed people in Combs’ circle who may have “enabled, justified and looked the other way on all of this type of behavior for decades.”
Navarro and the rest of her “View” co-hosts also dissected the video Combs, 54, released on Sunday where he apologized and expressed his “disgust” over what he did in the video.
However, they pointed out that he never specifically apologized to Ventura, 37, or even mentioned her name.
“I don’t think that that video that we saw will change the public’s opinion of him, because I didn’t hear him say, ‘I am sorry Cassie.’ I didn’t hear that. I heard, ‘I am sorry,’ I heard a lot of, ‘I sought help,'” Sunny Hostin said.
Whoopi Goldberg also argued that it’s “easier to be sorry after people find out that you lied because you said you didn’t do it.”
The former actress was referring to Combs previously denying Ventura’s allegations of abuse after she filed a November 2023 lawsuit against him.
The shocking footage, originally obtained by CNN and released on Friday, shows Combs beating, kicking and dragging Ventura through a hotel hallway in 2016.
Two days later, Combs released a selfie video where he said, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that. I was f—ked up. I mean, I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses.”
“My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted,” he said in part.
Ventura has yet to address either the footage or her ex’s social media post but her lawyer called him out for making the statement “more about himself than the many people he has hurt.”
“When Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday,” she told Page Six in a statement on Sunday.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1.800.799.SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788.
