Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Begs Judge for Mercy Ahead of Sentencing: ‘Lost My Way’
Sean “Diddy” Combs is throwing himself on the mercy of the court.
On Thursday, the rapper sent a letter to the judge overseeing his case, begging him for leniency. Combs will be sentenced on Friday after being convicted in July of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is ‘so sorry for the hurt I caused’
“I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest 2 years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself,” Diddy wrote in his missive to Judge Arun Subramanian (via CNN). “In my life, I have made many mistakes, but I am no longer running from them. I am so sorry for the hurt that I caused.”
The Bad Boy Records founder went on to express remorse for the committing domestic violence against his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, saying that he “literally lost my mind” and that he was “dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved.” (In her victim impact statement, Ventura has expressed skepticism that he had changed, writing that he will alway be the “same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is.”)
“I lost my way. I got lost in my journey. Lost in the drugs and the excess,” Diddy’s letter continued. “My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core.”
“The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn,” he added. “Prison will change you or kill you—I choose to live.”
Diddy says he’s sober, claims he mentored other inmates in jail
Diddy also said that he was “sober for the first time in 25 years” and was working dealing with his “anger issues.” He also shared a story about mentoring fellow inmates in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he was been incarcerated since September 2024. The Grammy-winner also described “inhumane” condition in the jail and said he hoped to be released so that he could be with his elderly mother and his seven children.
Combs is facing up to 10 years in prison on each count on which he was convicted.
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