‘Oh Boy!’ CNN Studio Cracks Up As Wolf Blitzer Dryly Asks Legal Analyst To Explain Diddy ‘Freak-Offs’

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer elicited laughter from around the studio when he dryly asked CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig to explain the Sean “Diddy” Combs “freak-offs” to his daytime audience.

Combs went on trial this week on felony charges for sex trafficking and transportation for prostitution.

CNN covered day two of the trial on Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room by posting updates, one of which Blitzer read to Honig, co-anchor Pamela Brown, and correspondent Elise Hammond.

After quoting accuser Cassie Ventura, Blitzer asked Honig to add some context for the phrase “in terms that we can use here on CNN”:

WOLF BLITZER: Just now we’re being told by our reporters in the courtroom that Ventura testified that she tried to avoid kissing the escorts during the so-called freak-offs because it “felt too intimate and made me squeamish.”.

That’s what she said.

And explain to our viewers, in terms that we can use here on CNN, what these “freak-offs” were.

ELIE HONIG: Oh boy!

ON-AND-OFF-CAMERA: (LAUGHTER)

ELIE HONIG: That’s quite an assignment! (LAUGHS) what they were were these extended, sometimes for a day or two days, sexual gatherings.

They would usually do them in hotel rooms. Sean Combs would arrange them and engineer them. He would tell Cassie what to do. They would bring in male escorts.

One of the things Sean Combs would do is watch Cassie with those male escorts. There were all sorts of lubricants involved. There’s baby oil that’s part of this case.

But again, the thing that’s really relevant to this trial is not whether one agrees or disagrees with the sexual proclivities or is offended by it. But were these voluntary activities.

And I think the prosecution’s point, as Elise was saying, is the more extreme this conduct was, the less likely it is that Cassie Ventura would have consented to this, and that she was doing it because she felt forced or compelled or under a threat.

WOLF BLITZER: Elie, thank you very, very much

Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.