By Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean "Diddy" Combs' defense team sought to portray Casandra Ventura on Thursday as a willing participant in his drug-fueled sex performances known as "Freak Offs,

Casandra "Cassie" Ventura is opening up about why she participated in the "Freak Offs" — hours-long sex parties where she alleges her former boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs forced her into sexual activities with other men.

Combs faces five federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

Media outlets are asking the judge in Sean "Diddy" Combs' case to allow the press to view video evidence of "freak-offs."

The rap mogul's tumultuous relationship with R&B singer Cassie Ventura was painstakingly detailed from the stand for a third day as she discussed their infidelity, substance abuse and violent decade together.

The texts were displayed to jurors in a Manhattan courtroom where Sean "Diddy" Combs is fighting sex-trafficking and racketeering charges.

R&B singer Cassie was forced under cross-examination Thursday to read aloud explicit messages with her former boyfriend Sean (Diddy) Combs, some of which expressed enthusiasm for sex with other men at Combs's behest that she previously testified she "hated doing.

The jury is seeing some of those violent visuals this week as Cassie Ventura took the stand and publicly shared the most hurtful and horrid parts of her life.