Diddy’s mom reacts to rapper’s sex trafficking arrest: ‘Devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations’
nypost.comarrest for sex trafficking and racketeering. In a statement shared Sunday by her lawyer, Natlie G. Figgers, Janice said that the 54-year-old rapper is innocent of the sexual abuse allegations and is not a “monster.”“I come to you today as a mother that is devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made against my son, Sean Combs.
It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies,” Janice said.“My son is not the monster they have painted him to be, and he deserves the chance to tell his side.
I can only pray that I am alive to see him speak his truth and be vindicated,” she continued. Janice explained that Diddy — who has been denied bail twice since his Sept.
16 arrest as he remains behind bars in Brooklyn — isn’t “perfect” and noted that he’s “made mistakes in his past.”“My son may not have been entirely truthful about certain things, such as denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the hotel’s surveillance showed otherwise,” she went on, referring to the 2016 footage published earlier this year showing Diddy physically assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel.
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