Power, Silence, and the Women Left to Carry the Damage: The Diddy Trials

This may come to a shock to you, but I spent five days in the courtroom at the Diddy trial.

Five days watching a man accused of hellacious and heinous acts of violence, coercion, and abuse sit across from women who are still carrying the wreckage of what he took.

And here is what I know:

The defendant didn’t just harm bodies. He stole freedom. He stole careers. He stole instincts, self-worth, autonomy, safety, and the possibility of lives that could have unfolded differently—brighter, fuller, unbroken.

Even today, survivors are still piecing themselves back together. Still reclaiming what was taken. Still waking up to the weight of what they never got to be because of one man’s power.

And society?

Society doesn’t protect women.

It protects wealth.

It protects fame.

It protects men who know how to twist a system in their favor.

It tells survivors to be quiet. To move on. To get over it. It asks, “Why didn’t you say something sooner? Why didn't you leave?" rather than asking men to stop hurting women.

Because here’s the truth: when women come forward, the world doesn’t protect them. It interrogates them. It calls them liars. It rips apart their integrity, drags their names through the mud, and forces them to relive their most shameful secrets in public.

This isn’t just about one man on trial.

This is about all of us.

The women who have been diminished in silence.

The ones gaslit into believing our pain was an overreaction.

The ones who learned to swallow our screams because the world didn’t want to hear them.

I am done with a culture that looks the other way.

I am done with a system that fails to hold men accountable.

And I am done letting silence be the weapon that protects them.

Because this moment—the one happening in that courtroom—is bigger than a sentencing. 

It’s a reminder that every survivor deserves to be believed. Every woman deserves safety, autonomy, and a life unshaken by the violence of men who think power makes them untouchable.

And I will no longer be quiet about it.

That’s why today I’m asking you—directly, urgently—to stand with me. To put your money where your outrage is. To help fund the work that actually protects survivors and dismantles abuse at its root.

Every contribution to Thorn is a refusal to look away. It’s a promise that we will no longer allow power to shield predators while silencing women.

Join me. Donate to Thorn HERE.