The former talk show host has discussed her beef with the Bad Boy Records producer in the past, even accusing him of being responsible for her firing from a popular radio show in the late 90’s.
TV host Wendy Williams has made a strong statement after the arrest of P. Diddy. Known for her hot topics segment on her former talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, Williams has spoken out about the rapper multiple times before.
Regarding his federal investigation, Williams recently told Daily Mail “It’s about time.”
“What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people ‘Wendy you called it,’’ she told DailyMail.com. “Including some people from my family who have said the same.”
“You know how I feel about that? It is about time,” she said. “To see this video on TV of [Cassie] getting pummeled … it was just horrific.”
Williams is referring to the 2016 video of Diddy assaulting his said girlfriend at the time, Cassie Ventura, in a hotel hallway. The footage was obtained by CNN.
Ventura filed a lawsuit against him for assault and rape in November 2023. Within the same month, Venutra said the lawsuit was settled.
Williams has spoken about the rapper long before the recent accusations emerged, saying that their beef started in the 90s.
In 2004, Williams wrote in her book The Wendy Williams Experience, she had a “certain level of contempt for Puff” given that he “single-handedly tried to ruin” her career.
“The hell he put me through,” she wrote. “I will never forget. But I don’t hate him.”
She accused Diddy of getting her fired from the Hot 97 radio show in 1998.
In 2022, on the music podcast, “The Art of Dialogue”, Puff’s former bodyguard, Gene Deal, confirmed her accusations.
“Puff 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 label executives that was cool with him, everyone was going to boycott their station,” Deal said.
“We was out in L.A. for about three days; before we landed back in New York, Wendy Williams was in the radio station in Philly. It was over for her. She was fired.”
