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Bill Maher Defends Take on Cassie Enduring Diddy's Abuse in Exchange for Fame
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6/7/2025
Bill Maher's not apologizing to people who hated his recent comments about Cassie ... standing by his argument she essentially made a deal with the devil for fame.
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I was fascinated by your editorial, essentially saying that women now have agency, women have
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the ability to leave an abusive relationship. And Cassie essentially made a deal with the devil
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that if you want a number one hit, you have to do certain things to get it. It's your call,
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whether you want it or not, in her case, freak offs, which you say the text show she was
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enthusiastic about. Is that a fair characterization of what you're saying?
00:38
Not completely. I wasn't saying that those texts that she wrote were sincere. I don't think they
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were. I don't think she was enjoying the freak offs. But that just goes to the point that sometimes
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people do things that they really don't want to do for some greater good. I noticed the people who
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came after me, you know, they always do it in such bad faith. You know, they never include that. First
01:05
of all, they're probably too lazy to watch the whole thing. So they just see the part that the people who
01:09
are their partisans of whatever issue put out there. So they think that's the whole thing. But
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I went to great lengths to talk about how I completely understand how women would, as counterintuitive as it
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is, or as it seems, write a complimentary text, for example, or email to an abuser after they were
01:32
abused. Because especially before the Me Too movement, not that things have changed completely,
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but they've changed a lot, which is a big point I was making. You know, when you had people like
01:43
Cosby and Harvey Weinstein and look like nobody ever had to pay the piper for what they were doing.
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Well, you know, that's why you might write that complimentary text after you were abused,
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because at least you're going to get something out of it. You have this connection with this person.
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Um, but let's live in the world, you know, the year we're living in is something I say a lot.
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And, uh, you know, those guys are in jail now. A lot of people went to jail. A lot of other people
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can't even show their faces. You know, I'm not going to name names because they'd sue me properly,
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but you know, a lot of people can't go out to dinner because they're just persona non grata,
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as it should be for abusive men. Um, but I was just saying that there has to be a little more
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agency. Yes. I think the heart of what I was saying was in the future, uh, because,
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you know, things are somewhat different now, quite a bit different. Um,
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don't tell your friends about it when it happens, tell the police right away. That's the person who
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should be reading your contemporaneous notes, the police report, because if you wait 10 years,
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it gets kind of marky. Uh, and again, I went to great lengths to say, I understand why this has
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happened in the past, but I do think we should reevaluate that. And if you are being abused,
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especially, and again, if you're being actually captured by somebody that's different. If it's
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about, he blocked the door. Okay. We're talking about a different thing, physical restraint, but if
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it's just mental, which a lot of this was, you know, I, I quoted, uh, the singer that, uh, Shia LaBeouf
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was with, uh, FKA twigs, I think is her name. And she, I read her quote, which said, I could have left
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anytime I wanted to. I had the townhouse in London that I could have gone to. And I said, then why am
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I reading about this? If you could have done that, why didn't you do it? Um, so that's really what I
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was saying. It's certainly not excusing Diddy. I went to great lengths to say how much I thought
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he should be in jail. Um, I don't know what kind of criminal he is, Harvey. I know that's your big
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theme is, are they going to get them on what they're charging them with? But even if they don't get them
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on that, they ought to get them on something.
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