Michael Trotter Jr and Tanya Trotter of The War and Treaty participate in the 66th GRAMMY Awards atCrypto com Arena onFeb 4, 2024 in Los Angeles. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
The War and Treaty’s Tanya Blount was as soon as a Bad Boys Records musician, and is revealing her ideas concerning the accusations concerning the tag’s creator, Sean “Diddy” Combs, that have actually increased in the years considering that.
Blount was authorized to the tag in the 1990s, though her cd with the business was never ever launched. “Puffy was interesting because being with him was like — we didn’t see this Puffy that people are talking about now,” she remembered throughout a brand-new episode of Bunnie XO’s Dumb Blonde podcast. “We never saw him drink, we never saw him smoke. I never saw that guy. Being around him was like school because you were literally learning while training.”
She included, “Everything has good and bad. I’m really appalled with the stuff I’m hearing about now. I had protection too. I was young but I had a manager who told me, ‘No you’re not going to that party.’ […] I also had God protecting me from whatever was happening. The people who experienced it, I really feel bad for them.”
In a terrible video clip, gotten by CNN previously this year and dated March 5, 2016, Combs shows up to push his long time previous companion, Cassie Ventura, to the ground near a lift financial institution, kick her numerous times while she pushes the ground and drag her down a corridor. The components of the video clip mirror an attack claims Ventura made in a now-settled claim she submitted versus Diddy in November.
Shortly after, on May 19, Diddy required to social media sites to share a video clip of himself taking duty and excusing his activities in the troubling clip. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that,” Diddy states in his Instagram video clip. “I was f—ed up. I mean, I hit rock bottom. But I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it, I’m disgusted now.”
He proceeded, “I went out and sought professional help. Had to go into therapy, into rehab. Had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry. But I’m committed to being a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
“The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,” stated Ventura’s lawyer, Douglas Wigdor, in a declaration sent out to Billboard “Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.”
Ventura was the initial to implicate Diddy of sexual offense, submitting a claim in November in which lawyers for Cassie declared she “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands,” consisting of duplicated physical assaults and requiring her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” while he masturbated. According to the grievance, after she tried to divide from him in 2018 after an on and off public connection for 11 years, Combs purportedly “forced her into her home and raped her while she repeatedly said ‘no’ and tried to push him away.” The instance was quickly cleared up, yet Combs was after that filed a claim against by numerous various other ladies that declared they were sexually abused by the hip-hop magnate.
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” Diddy created on Instagram inDecember “For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”
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