Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura returns to the witness stand Thursday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Manhattan sex-trafficking case for cross-examination, following two days of direct testimony where she described a decade of harrowing abuse — including an alleged rape in 2018 after breaking up with him.

Diddy has denied the allegations against him. As expected, cross-examination began with discussions of text and e-mail communications between Cassie and Diddy, with the defense asking about the nature of the earlier days of the two's relationship.