OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
4:55 PM – Wednesday, October 2, 2024
In regards to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest and the ongoing court proceedings, media personality Wendy Williams, a longtime TV critic of the rap mogul who previously warned that he lived a double life, has finally spoken out.
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“What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people, ‘Wendy, you called it,’” Williams, 60, said to the Daily Mail on Tuesday. “Including some people from my family who have said the same.”
Williams, who has recently experienced a number of health problems and other bodily issues, has openly criticized Diddy, 54, for basically her whole professional life. The former radio DJ and television host said recently that she was appalled, but not surprised, about the security tape of Diddy reportedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, which was revealed earlier this year.
“You know how I feel about that? It is about time. To see this video on TV of [Cassie] getting pummeled… it was just horrific,” she said to the outlet on Tuesday. “But now you have to think, how many more times? How many people? How many more women? It’s just so horrible.”
Following his indictment on counts of racketeering, forced sex trafficking, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution, Diddy was taken into custody in New York last month. The rapper entered a not guilty plea and denied all accusations made against him. He is currently awaiting trial while housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center alongside disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried.
Since the arrest, Diddy has been denied bail twice but filed a notice of appeal on Monday, September 30th, to reverse the verdict.
During a news briefing on Tuesday, a Texas law firm disclosed that at least 120 victims had accused Diddy of sexual assault and sex trafficking. The group includes 60 men and 60 women, with 25 of them alleging they were minors at the time of the alleged crimes. Although the victims’ identities have not been made public, attorney Tony Buzbee stated that some of the names will come as a “shock” because they are famous “people we all know.”
“He cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus,” Erica Wolff, Diddy’s lawyer, said. “That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.”
Nevertheless, this is all too familiar for those who have followed Williams’ feud with Diddy over the years.
The ups and downs between Williams and Diddy began in the 1990s when the TV personality criticized him and said he lived a secret lifestyle where she insinuated that he “played on both teams,” referencing his sexual liking for men on her radio program Hot 97. Williams was fired from the program in 1998, and she has stated that Diddy was involved in her dismissal.
“We come from a very homosexual era of hip hop as well,” Williams previously said on her show after referencing Diddy and rapper Jay-Z.
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God also previously alleged that Diddy was responsible for getting Wendy Williams fired from the radio station WQHT, also known as Hot 97, in 1998 because she highlighted the secret aspects of his life.
“Wendy’s whole thing was Diddy was gay,” said the 45-year-old comedian, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, on May 29th. “That’s why Wendy got fired from Hot 97. Wendy got fired from Hot 97 by Diddy ’cause that’s when Bad Boy was smoking hot. She got fired for putting that [information] out there.”
Diddy’s former bodyguard, Gene Deal, similarly corroborated these claims as well.
“[Diddy] told Hot 97 if they didn’t get rid of her before he got back in New York, that they was not going to get any music from any of his friends, any of the record labels executives that was cool with him… Everyone was going to boycott their station.”
When Diddy agreed to appear on Williams’ show in 2017, their disagreement seemed to have been settled, but Williams later maintained that she was just playing nice to get more information.
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