Sharay Hayes, aka “The Punisher,” has come forward with an impassioned apology to Cassie Ventura, the R&B singer caught up in serious allegations against music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. Dancer And Escort Shows No Remorse For His Hand In Diddy’s Federal Sex Trafficking Case Posted by Staff Dancer and former Escort, Hayes, recently sat down with CNN to reflect on his part in the encounters now under the microscope in Diddy’s federal sex trafficking case; And while he regrets none of it, including having to give oral sex to men, he’s being vilified by internet bullies who’ve turned his life absolutely upside down.
“I would be so sorry because I didn’t know; I didn’t detect any of what she was going through,” Hayes said, obviously affected. “Certainly, my participation contributed to the pain of it all. “Me, being a man and raised by a single mom and a grandma, and standing here, I can’t even see myself putting myself in a position to where, like, as a man, it’s not even remotely close, the thought process of me allowing myself to be in a position where a woman is being abused, it’s tough for me to talk about.
It’s not a message you hear daily from anyone, let alone a guy who signed a contract for what he said were eight to twelve “freak-offs” with Ventura over two and a half years. Hayes said he sometimes didn’t even know who the couple was until it was all over, adding that security told him not to look at Diddy, whom he described as Ventura’s “husband” at the time.
The environment? “Uncomfortable,” he said. Hayes detailed strange scenes, with Diddy occasionally watching the encounters behind a veil or hijab. He is quick to say that he did not see violence or attacks with his own eyes, and thus, he is left wrestling with the gap between what he saw and what Ventura later characterized.
“I just see it as allegations at this point from my conversation … I just did not see anything that fit into what those charges are, but I am also very naive to what the law says.”
Hayes hasn’t been in touch with either of them since 2015, but the burden of his past with both burdens him. What he might have shrugged off as the price of doing business has acquired a more sinister cast with Ventura’s allegations of blackmail, manipulation, and psychological torture.
His comments on CNN were not just P.R. damage control; they looked like a man trying to make peace with his past. A man who used to see his gigs as transactional was coming to terms with the possibility that his mere presence might have made someone else’s pain a little more profound.
“To Cassie, I would apologize to her and say I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart, and if I made a bad experience for her, then I’m really regretful,” he added.
It’s the hard truth that people stuck in the margins of someone else’s story are sometimes still living with the aftermath and that silence, no matter how unintentional, can offer just as loud an echo.
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