Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs mother Janice Combs has hit out at what she called a number of inaccuracies about the Netflix series – slamming her son’s alleged friends and diminishing a slapping incident that features in the show
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ mom has shared her fury at the damning new Netflix documentary about her son.
The streaming service released the four-part Sean Combs: The Reckoning this week and Janice Combs has now shared her furious reaction.
The mum has blasted claims that she was an “abusive parent” to her son, calling herself a loving and nurturing parent to her boy who she described as a ‘goal orientated over achiever.’
In a statement given to Rolling Stone, Janice insisted The Reckoning – which has Diddy’s nemesis 50 Cent as one of the executive producers – was created with the purpose of “misleading viewers” and further “harming the family’s reputation.”
Denying she had been abusive, Janice said: “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.”
Janice wanted to release a statement to “correct some of the lies” in the docuseries, and accused Tim Patterson, an alleged childhood friend of her son, of making “salacious” claims of her relationship with the I’ll Be Missing You hitmaker.
Diddy is serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Janice said: “I loved and nurtured Sean. My memories of Sean growing up are one of a respectful and a diligent child and teenager. Sean has always been an industrious, goal oriented, over achiever.”
The mum also insisted Bad Boy Entertainment co-founder Kirk Burrowes’ statement that his then-business partner once slapped his mother was “patently false”.
She said: “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.
“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.(sic)”
Janice praised the incarcerated rap mogul as a “dutiful son” who had helped her with medical care and other financial support and requested “these distortions, falsehoods and misleading statements be publicly retracted.”
Diddy’s representatives previously branded The Reckoning “fundamentally unfair and illegal”.
A statement said: “Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalise every minute of Mr Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalise on a never-ending media frenzy.
“If Netflix cared about truth or Mr Combs’s legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context – including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing. No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party.”
However, Netflix later hit back and insisted there is nothing untoward about The Reckoning.
A spokesperson said in a statement: “The claims being made about Sean Combs: The Reckoning are false. The project has no ties to any past conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix.
