Sean “Diddy” Combs got to see a few familiar faces while locked up behind bars.
The disgraced mogul, 54, was able to visit with his twin daughters, D’Lila and Jessie, 17, and his mom, Janice, last week at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he’s been locked up since Sept. 17 after pleading not guilty to charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.
Combs and his family were able to hug and converse in a visiting area of the facility while supervised by jail staff, according to TMZ.
Sources shared with the outlet that Combs’ twin daughters were eager to spend time with him, and they traveled from Los Angeles, California, where the girls have allegedly been staying under the care of their late mother Kim Porter’s best friend, Lala.
The visit with Combs was emotional for everyone, with insiders sharing that Janice felt compelled to speak out on her son’s behalf.
She broke her silence on her son’s arrest through her attorney, Natlie G. Figgers, over the weekend and said the rapper is “not a monster.”
“I come to you today as a mother that is devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made against my son, Sean Combs. It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies,” Janice’s statement read.
“My son is not the monster they have painted him to be, and he deserves the chance to tell his side. I can only pray that I am alive to see him speak his truth and be vindicated,” her statement continued.
Janice admitted that Combs — who recently appealed a Manhattan judge’s no-bail ruling after being denied twice — has “made mistakes in his past.” She also addressed the 2016 hotel footage of her son physically assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
“My son may not have been entirely truthful about certain things, such as denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the hotel’s surveillance showed otherwise,” she stated.
