Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ mother has slammed “inaccuracies” in Netflix’s new docuseries.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ mother has slammed The Reckoning
The streaming service launched the four-part Sean Combs: The Looking on Tuesday (02.12.25) and Janice Combs has blasted claims within the sequence that she was an “abusive mother or father” to her son, and disputed different statements, together with about their relationship and the disgraced rapper’s behaviour in the direction of her.
In an announcement given to Rolling Stone, Janice insisted The Reckoning featured “inaccuracies relating to my son Sean’s upbringing and household life” and alleged it was “deliberately completed to mislead viewers and additional hurt our status.”
Denying she had been abusive, she added: “As I’ve said beforehand, I used to be a single mom, elevating my son, I held three and even 4 jobs in an try to offer a snug upbringing and high quality schooling for my baby.
“I raised Sean with love and arduous work, not abuse.”
Janice needed to launch an announcement to “appropriate a number of the lies” within the docuseries, and accused Tim Patterson, an alleged childhood good friend of her son, of constructing “not truthful and salacious” claims of her relationship with the I am going to Be Lacking You hitmaker – who’s serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution – with a purpose to “promote the sequence”.
She added: “On the contrary, I cherished and nurtured Sean. My recollections of Sean rising up are considered one of a respectful and a diligent baby and teenager. Sean has all the time been an industrious, purpose oriented, over achiever.”
And the matriarch insisted Unhealthy Boy Leisure co-founder Kirk Burrowes’ assertion that his then-business associate as soon as slapped his mom was “patently false”.
She mentioned: “The allegations said by Mr. Kirk Burrows that my son slapped me whereas we had been conversing after the tragic Metropolis School occasions on December 28, 1991, are inaccurate and patently false.
“That was a really unhappy day for all of us. For him to make use of this tragedy and incorporate faux narratives to additional his prior failed and present try to achieve what was by no means his, Unhealthy Boy Information is unsuitable, outrageous and previous offensive.(sic)”
Janice praised the incarcerated rap mogul as a “dutiful son” who had helped her with medical care and different monetary assist and requested “these distortions, falsehoods and deceptive statements be publicly retracted.”
Diddy’s representatives beforehand branded The Reckoning “essentially unfair and unlawful”.
An announcement mentioned: “Netflix is plainly determined to sensationalise each minute of Mr Combs’s life, with out regard for fact, with a purpose to capitalise on a unending media frenzy.
“If Netflix cared about fact or Mr Combs’s authorized rights, it might not be ripping non-public footage out of context – together with conversations together with his legal professionals that had been by no means supposed for public viewing. No rights in that materials had been ever transferred to Netflix or any third get together.”
Nonetheless, Netflix later hit again and insisted there’s nothing untoward about The Reckoning.
A spokesperson mentioned in an announcement: “The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The venture has no ties to any previous conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix.
“The footage of Combs main as much as his indictment and arrest had been legally obtained. This isn’t a success piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson [50 Cent] is an govt producer however doesn’t have artistic management. Nobody was paid to take part.”
