The Breakfast Club - I Said What I Said ( Joe Biden Announces He Has Prostate Cancer and Diddy Trial Updates)

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

Today on the show Loren first speaks on the sadden news of former president Joe Biden announcing his Prostate Cancer, in which she sends her love and support. Also, she gets into the latest details of the Diddy trial recapping the comments from Cassie and her husband Alex Fine after her last day of testimony and Dawn Richardson, the former member of Danity Kane comments on her experience working with Diddy. Loren, also addresses the backlash from some that did not like her comments towards the trial. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an iHeart podcast. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily dig on everything pop culture, entertainment, news,

and the conversations that really shake the room. I am your host with the most as always. And today here with me, Taylor Gang. What up, dude? We actually over the weekend went to Atlantic City. It was Taylor's birthday. Jess Hilarious had a comedy show. Jess is funny as hell. Like, was that your first time seeing her on stage. No, that's my second Okay, that was my first time seeing Jess on stage of course You know I work with her here at the Breakfast Club But seeing her on stage and like in her element in her stand-up bag. I was just like wow like I It blew me away like I expected her to be good, but I feel like

Being on stage and doing stand-up is such a hard thing to do But doing it and like being able to show that you're a star while doing it Only few people can do that and when I was watching just on stage. I'm like yo Here's it like this is this is her superstar element right here like this this right here And they're like this is it for her like this Is amazing she was so funny? And it just was I feel like she carried the story throughout from top to bottom I felt like I was watching a movie

Yeah, it was right like all the jokes connected with the joke before it had like the overarching thing she just did her thing You know she did her thing so shout out to Jess My mom wanted special huh your especially a special. Huh? Get her a special, right? I told her that this morning. I'm like, yo, why haven't you shot a special yet? Like, what I just watched in Atlantic City needs to be a special. She said she's just trying to figure it out,

but my mom was excited. That was one of her Mother's Day gifts. She kept asking. She wanted to go see Jess on stage in person, and then she was so excited to meet you, and she loves the fact that she's about to have a baby. Yes.

Oh my God. Now she keeps talking to me about having a baby. She's like, you trying to give Lauren one? Give me one. Like you just want to randomly walk around with my baby for nine months and give it to me. I love you, mom. Look at Jess.

But I'm feeling amazing. This weekend was good. I got to sleep a lot. Court drained me last week. How you feel? I'm tired. My legs hurt. I'm getting a massage later.

Oh wow. Is it? Because we did a lot of walking in Atlantic City. A lot of walking. That whole weekend, I just feel like it's been up on my feet a lot. Yeah. I don't know how to sit down. We had a good time though.

I love your family. Your family that you're building. I love Patrick, big Patrick, not the Patrick in her belly. And then my family got to meet you guys as well. So it just always feels like family with y'all. So thank y'all for accepting me all my craziness. Yes. But getting right on into the latest. Man, this is a really tough one for me.

Recent news broke that Joe Biden, former President Joe Biden, is actually has been diagnosed with an aggressive state of prostate cancer. I received a statement from the personal office of former President Joe Biden. And this is how it read. Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer characterized by a Gleason score of nine, grade group of five with metastasis to the bone, which means it's spread to his bones. While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease,

the cancer appears to be hormone sensitive which allows for effective treatment the president and his family are reviewing treatment options with physicians when I tell you guys it triggered me so much when I read that because my mom is a stage four cancer survivor lung and brain and I remember when at the time when we found out I've talked about it here on the podcast with you Taylor when we found out we had been going back and forth to the hospitals, like probably we were, I was living in the hospital at that point up here in New York because my mom wanted to come to specialist up here and they'd overlooked it for a year. And I just didn't understand how you could overlook something like that.

And cancer, it just moves so fast and it just does all of these things. And so when I heard that, the first thing I thought of is like, how could this happen? Like, he's the former president. He's a recent, recent former president. He's an older man. I'm like, what's happening during his appointments? Like, are you guys not testing him? Why not?

If so, he's also really big because his son, one of his sons passed away of cancer, him and his wife, Jill Biden, like in Delaware, they lead so and just across the world, you know, the nation, they lead so much conversations around like cancer research and funding and just, you know, education around it. And so many things. I'm like, this is unfair. Like how did this happen to him? I don't get it.

And it doesn't mean it's the end because you get cancer, but it's just, I don't know, I just all weekend I've been asking how this makes no sense. How could this have happened? The thing about it, like he's always working. Like, how does he go to the doctors? I don't know how that works for the president, but I'm assuming it's pretty often because I don't necessarily. But also too, there's a thing of is like, even if he was going to the doctors you know there are cancers cancer cancer

reacts each type of cancer is different each level of cancer is different and cancer shows up differently for different people so like I know people who their cancer was it was aggressive from the start of them trying to fight it and I googled it because I just wanted to make sure what prostate cancer Their cancer was aggressive from the start of them trying to fight it. And I Googled it because I just wanted to make sure with prostate cancer that that was something that could happen. And when I Googled his type of cancer, his level of cancer that they mentioned, I did see online that it can be aggressive from the offset, from the outset, I'm sorry, it

can be aggressive from the outset, which means it can enter your body in that manner. But the fact that they're saying that, you know, he will be able to effectively management, that means that they do believe that he's going to be responsive to treatments is a really good thing. I just, man, I was so confused when I saw this. Like I had so many questions, but there was a lot of outpouring of love for him, which I was happy to see because I know a lot of times people like to make things so politics and not about the person and he is a person with a wife and a family and grandkids and you know

You don't want I don't wish bad on anybody And you shouldn't do it over politics or political beliefs But Kamala Harris posted for a former VP Kamala Harris posted how her and her husband Doug were saddened to learn of the president's prostate cancer diagnosis. They're keeping him in his prayers and they're in his entire family in the prayers at the time. But she said, you know, Joe is a fighter and I know he will face this challenge with the

same strength and resilience and optimism that has always defined his life and his leadership. We are hopeful for a full and speedy recovery. Even Donald Trump was humane in this, which I was gonna be pissed off if he was not. He said, Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family and wish Joe a fast and speedy recovery.

I had tweeted, you know, just talking about how messed up cancer is because it's kind of like a nightmare. It's like you don't know when it's gonna come. Yeah, it gets me like, you're talking about it right now. Your heart just jumps, right? That's how I felt when I saw this. I'm like, wait, what? No, like this is not fair. He's older. Like, why does he have to go through the treatments and be tired and all of those things?

But I just wish him well. And I know right now it's important for him to be covered by a lot of love, surrounded by a lot of love, by family and to stay hopeful. But in other news, cause you know, love to take y'all to court. Love to take y'all to court. We are headed back on over to the courtroom

with Diddy this week. This is technically week three of the trial, if you're including the jury selection. But now we are moving on to our second witness. So victim Jane, who is the other witness that a lot of people were thinking we're going to, it was going to be an explosive testimony, has now took the stand. We now know that victim Jane is Dawn Richard or Dawn Richards formerly of Danny D. Kane and Dirty Money Which were bands that Diddy created she worked with Diddy from 2009 to a little after 2011 But I actually I got to meet her when I did an event a few months ago

For black radiance and cross colors the clothing brand and she performed and we met there And and you know exchanged phone information and have talked a bit. So I was always wondering how it was going to be because I knew she would probably end up in court potentially. She came in after Cassie finished her last day of testimony and Cassie finished that testimony. She finishes strong. I think Diddy's team, I think they messed up a lot. I think last week the prosecution definitely took it. There were a lot of things that they were trying to prove or disprove when it came to Cassie's credibility about when she was actually sexually assaulted and some of the stories

she told. And I think that they didn't understand that, number one, a lot of people are going to always revert back to all of the physical violence that we saw her have to go through and endure and have the conversation about Stockholm syndrome and her making these decisions because she was in love with a man and that's common for a person in her seat. And I actually did NBC New York on Friday to recap my day.

And one of the questions that I was asked or one of the things that we talked about was like, there was reporters in the courtroom who really couldn't understand how even in talking about him on the stand, Cassie said things like, I still don't hate him. She said things like, he was charming, this man was full of life.

And she didn't seem malicious on the stand whatsoever. And I'm like, no, I can understand that. If you've ever met him and kind of experienced his personality, you understand what drew her in. But then when you see her go through all of that abuse, you understand what, you know what I mean? Like where her mind and her thinking would have been.

I'm not going to lie though. The defense was really good at bringing those things to the forefront and putting them in your mind and make you have to have a conversation about what you believe and what you don't believe. But I don't think that it fare well for them at all I do believe that the prosecution is you know Doing a really good job right now If even subtly about making sure the jury doesn't remember does not forget that Diddy has been very viciously violent physically to one of the main women in his life at a lot at the time of a lot

Of this who was involved in a lot of this so it's like what else is he capable of and I think that that's the thing and now enters Darn Richard and her testimony and yo she got on the stand Friday tell her they barely let my homegirls speak why? Let me not say my homegirl they're gonna be like yo they been on me they're gonna be like Lauren is being biased um, she got on a stand and she began telling the story about an incident she claims that she saw in 2009. And in 2009, she basically said that she saw Diddy and Cassie get into it physically because of food.

I guess he wanted food that wasn't finished and it was a whole thing. And Cassie over the head, allegedly, Cassie fell in a fetal position. The next day, he came in on some, don't say nothing about this because people who say stuff about things like this when it comes to me, allegedly he said they go missing. So the prosecutors are like, oh no, your honor, we need to be able to have her testify because this shows like an environment of fear that he created, which made it easier for him to coerce and force people to do stuff. Diddy's team is like, nah,

y'all not about to put every single person that has had a physically violent experience with Diddy on this stand. We've admitted to him being physically violent, but y'all not about to do that. It's not relevant. This isn't a domestic violence case. The judge said, well, we gonna figure this out on Monday

and Ms. Rashard will see you on Monday. So she's coming back. She's coming back this week to testify. Okay. And I think they're going to have to probably limit and be very, I mean, I do this anyway, not limit, but they're just gonna have to be on our piece of cues about what they object on and not object on. But I think to be honest, I'm not for sure if I think that Dawn's testimony is going to be, you know, one of the ones that brings it home. I feel like James Cruz, who was a former manager of Cassie and a long-term, a long-time business

person with Diddy, he worked with Diddy for a very, very long time, and I think he's going to be a strong witness because he has no ties in this. He's not suing anything civilly. He wasn't in a relationship with Puff. Yes, he worked with him for a bit, but he has no ties in this. It doesn't serve him either way to be on that stand. People can argue that, oh, Dawn has a civil lawsuit, so she's trying to be awarded money. So that's why she's here.

People can argue that about Cassie. The defense is focusing on that so much. Like they're trying to dismiss all of the violence and all the things that we've seen With Diddy and focus in on Vengeance money and jealousy, but it's like on his side Yeah, but I feel like I get what they're doing But I don't think it's playing well for them because the violence that we saw was so much Yeah, like seeing photos of Cassie and watching that video like it he's not on trial for domestic violence

But I mean if you're physically violent like that, of course people are gonna be scared, right? Like and that's what people are leaning into Not people and that's what the the prosecution is trying to lean into and going into this week I'm going to be interested to see how Diddy's defense team kind of blocks those things without downplaying what happened and what we saw. Yeah. And Aubrey. Well, I was going to say, I was going to ask about that,

Aubrey. Yeah, because people were wondering if Aubrey was going to. Because she was going on the whole thing for a few years with him. Yes. And people were saying she was vindicated when all this news came out. But she had posted a photo saying

she was coming to New York. And then she got here to New York. It actually ended up right here in the I Heart building doing TJ Amy's podcast. And she talked about the fact that she was not testifying. She was reached out to by the prosecutors, by the feds. They did interview her, have a conversation with her, but they decided not to use her. And we don't know why. And I don't think that we ever will

because for them it's a strategy thing. But if she had been picked, there's no way she would have been posting like, New York, what's up, I'm here. Yeah. There's no way. Like these things are so discreet. Like when you are becoming a witness

of the prosecutors and the government, like it is very, very discreet. So I ain't no way she about to be running around. And honestly, I think if, right, if I'm prosecutors, and this is just my opinion, if I'm prosecutors and I'm gathering my case, I would go with, because Dawn Richard and Arbril Day represent

very similar times in the story, because of the making the band and all that stuff, right? They both have two different experiences, but it's different timelines I think if you're leaning into Cassie so much because Cassie is You know the person that we've seen be physically abused so much by Diddy and you and you're a prosecutor and you want to prove That because of this physical violence and and you know all these things He's able to make people do what he wants them to do

without any rebuttal or without pushing back because they're scared of his threats because they know that they're not empty. I would lean into, and I'm choosing Dawn to get on the stand from that time period because Dawn is alleging she saw things happen to Cassie. And Diddy's attorneys argued, well, Cassie herself didn't even get on the stand

to talk about that. So how can we infer how she felt by that moment? How do we even know it's true? He said in the courtroom, we're going to move the set. This is not even true. But how are we going to determine how she felt when she didn't even go to the stand to talk about herself? Did she talk about all the incidents that happened though? Tell her and that is why you are smart. No, there's no way.

And they were together 10, 11 years. So why are they saying like, because she didn't mention it. That doesn't make sense, there's no way. And they were together 10, 11 years. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. So why are they saying like, cause she didn't mention it. That doesn't make sense. There is no way. And I think that's why the judge is, you know, willing to hear it out because it's like, we know that she was physically abused. We saw it. You can't get around that. She doesn't have to detail every incident because we know that it happened. Now the conversation is because it happened, did all of this other stuff happen? And let's focus on that and let's not focus on what did and didn't happen because we know

that she was physically abused. Now to Diddy's defense team's point, do we know if Cassie herself would have corroborated like yes this actually happened what Dawn said is true? We can't infer that. And that's what the point that they're trying to make is like, we don't even know if this really happened because Cassie herself didn't say that it happened because there's no police report. There's no this.

There's no that. Right. But I don't think that that takes away. I think you leave that up for a jury to decide. You leave it up for a jury to decide, OK, because we know he is capable of this, was he capable of that? And if he was, does it equal to all of the counts and all of the things that the government is alleging?

That's not for the attorneys to decide, it's not fair. Because you're automatically gonna cancel things out because you're his attorney. It doesn't make any sense. But I will say though, in the beginning of this, I was like, yo, Puff's legal team is on point, and they are on point. And I felt like they were doing really good

at creating these like big gaps and holes and stories. But man, they leaned too much into the wrong things. And I talked about it on my social media, make sure you follow me at Lauren LaRosa everywhere where I do breakdowns right after I leave the court. I did a video and I named three ways that I, in my opinion, I believe Diddy's legal team messed up during the final day of testimony for Cassie. And it'll explain a bit more. Now real quick, as we enclose, take y'all to the streets, to the tweets. You for the tweets?

We outside, we outside, we outside. Outside in the tweets. Every other page our goal. One of the things that I've realized, and Taylor, I know you be on social, but I know you be kind of in your own world on social. So I don't know if you've been seeing it like over the weekend one of my videos were really really viral it was the one where I was talking about Diddy's legal team debunking a lot of Cassie's testimony on the stand and oh my god, it made people mad people were like, oh, she's not a girl's girl

I'm not gonna read some of the comments cuz they was crazy on Twitter But all I did was tweet the video and the caption of the video. I think it said like week two I'm gonna find it. I think it said like week two day two here goes So I tweeted a video and I said full recap from Cassie's first day testifying against Diddy is live and a caption of the video On YouTube that I linked to says Cassieie's first day of cross examination dot dot dot wasn't good. And here is why I said that. I want you guys to go take a listen to this video.

It's on my YouTube channel. It's on my Instagram as well. YouTube is LaurynLaRosaTV. Instagram is LaurynLaRosa. And I'm like, people just hear what they wanna hear and that's okay. But in the video, I'm having a conversation about how I felt like Cassie as a star witness Who we know has been physically abused who has she has things that Diddy cannot deny because it's on camera, right?

I just felt like Prosecutors should have protected her better and prepared her better for certain things there were text messages You know, she said that she'd Prosecutors like a lot of things like that. Yeah So they're saying that girls goes because I should instantly just I should instantly just take up for Cassie And I will say in this trial and in anything that I report I'm never going to just Did not like not see everything first and make a final decision at the end of of each day out of court, I had been saying, okay, today, if I was a juror, I would have voted this way or voted that way. But it changes day to day. Some days it leans in

favor of, you know, Diddy's legal team for that day. Other days, it's Cassie for that day. But because I'm not like Diddy, lock Diddy up and throw away the key. And I've been saying from the beginning that he's going to jail. There's no way he ain't going to jail. Now, I don't know if it's gonna be for the rest of his life like the prosecution wants, but he's definitely going to jail. He's guilty of some things.

They're upset about that. In this video, especially after following her last day of testimony, this video went so viral because I'm being honest about how I felt watching her on that stand, not able to answer certain things or not being able to track certain things. And I don't be—and on Friday, I was so confused about how I felt, I didn't even post a video, because I didn't want to misspeak on behalf of her and, you know, sexual assault

victims and things of that nature. I literally didn't even post a video breaking down what happened in court, because I didn't want to talk about—because they leaned so much on her last day testimony about her getting her dates wrong of the actual alleged rape in her home. She had said August and then she said September. I didn't even get into that. And the reason why I didn't was because at first I'm like, okay, I get what they're trying to do.

They're trying to blow up her credibility. And then I took like hours, I didn't post nothing until the next day. I had conversations with people and just sat there with myself and I'm like, I thought about like, yo, if that's a traumatic experience, I don't care what you found and where it's written down at, you might get that wrong.

But my thought process naturally, and I think that that's why a lot of people are gravitating toward my content is because I'm being honest about how I feel in the moment naturally my first thought was wait How could you not remember that date, but I'm also not a survivor of sexual assault. I don't know what that's like I don't know how traumatic that is. I don't know what that does to your brain in your think-through. You know what I'm saying? So people are upset about that. How do you feel? Do you feel like I have to be like no? I think it's they're not there in the court with you. So you're only going by your own judgment with it. And then like,

especially to I'm seeing it on the media. So, you know, media can turn people's thoughts and persuade them a whole nother side to Yeah, thoughts and persuade them a whole other side too. Yeah. But I think because you're getting the real deal of it, it's more genuine and more factual personally. As long as I do everything with great intention and you know, for instance, like Friday, I didn't jump to just record a video because I'm like, I do want to be respectful of people who have going through, you know, alleged sexual assault or domestic violence in general.

Like, you know what I'm saying? So I'm being careful with it. I'm being responsible. That's what the word I'm looking for. As long as I keep my level of responsibility intact, I'm OK. And I'm good with that. And I'm good with I'm good with where I am. That is should be period.

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