A former personal assistant to Sean "Diddy" Combs who says he raped her testified Monday that she continued sending him loving text messages for years after her job ended in 2017 because she was "brainwashed."

The woman, testifying for a third day under the pseudonym "Mia" at the music mogul's federal sex trafficking trial, used the word as defense attorney Brian Steel confronted her with skepticism and even suggested she fabricated her claims. Advertisement

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges. His lawyers concede he could be violent, but he denies using threats or his powerful position in the music industry to commit abuse.

Steel had Mia read aloud for the jury numerous loving text messages she sent to Combs, including one in 2019 in which she

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