“I was handed one. We were going to a club [gig] in downtown L.A.,” she recalled. “I just remember we took mushrooms, and I was, like, really high. I was handed the gun just to hold in my bag, but I was freaking out the whole time [that] it was going to go off.”
Having never operated a firearm before, Ventura was “terrified” as the gun remained in her bag for roughly an hour to an hour and a half while inside of the nightclub.
“I have no idea why I had a loaded gun,” Ventura confessed, noting how she eventually was able to give the pistol back to Combs. “The guns were taken out here and there. I always felt like it was a little bit of a scare tactic. I didn’t know for what purpose.”