Diddy’s Mom Defends Him After Shocking Claims in Netflix Doc: ‘Fake Narratives’ 

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mother is speaking out about some shocking claims about her son’s upbringing in the new Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning. 

The bombshell four-part docuseries looks back at the disgraced hip-hop mogul’s life and career, including his childhood in Mount Vernon, New York, and early years working with Uptown Records. But Janice Combs says some of the allegation in the series – including claims that she was abusive and that he once slapped her during a heated argument – are false. 

Janice Combs says she never abused Sean “Diddy” Combs

Sean Combs: The Reckoning shines a light on Diddy’s past, including his years growing up with a single mom whom one insider says was physically abusive. 

“His beatings made me scared,” Diddy’s childhood friend Tim “Dawg” Patterson said in The Reckoning. “I got beatings, now. But when he got his beatings it wasn’t no … It wasn’t a joking thing. No.”

But Janice Combs – who raised Diddy and his sister on her own after her husband’s 1972 murder – says she never raised a hand to her children.  

“In the documentary, I am portrayed as an abusive parent. This is untrue,” she said in a statement to Deadline. “As I have stated previously, I was a single mother, raising my son, I held three and even four jobs in an attempt to provide a comfortable upbringing and quality education for my  child. I raised Sean with love and hard work, not abuse.” 

The 84-year-old calls Patterson’s claims “salacious” and said that she “loved and nurtured” her “industrious” and “goal-oriented” son. 

Diddy’s mom address City College stampede tragedy 

Janice Combs also took issue with how the docuseries portrayed the tragic stampede at a 1991 charity basketball game that killed nine people. Diddy had organized the event. 

In The Reckoning, Combs’ former business partner Kirk Burrows says that after the incident, he witnessed a conversation between the future Grammy winner and his mother where she questioned his desire to pursue a career in the music business. He responded by slapping her and calling her a “b*tch,” Burrows said. 

But according to Janice, Burrows is spinning lies. 

“The allegations stated by Mr. Kirk Burrows that my son slapped me while we were conversing after the tragic City College events on December 28, 1991, are inaccurate and patently false,” she said. “That was a very sad day for all of us.  For him to use this tragedy and incorporate fake narratives to further his prior failed and current attempt to gain what was never his, Bad Boy Records is wrong, outrageous and past offensive.”

Diddy has also slammed the hit docuseries. In a statement to Deadline, his attorneys called The Reckoning a “shameful hit piece” and suggested that both Netflix and executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson were pursuing a “vendetta” against Combs. 

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