P. Diddy has been infamous for his parties for decades. His lifestyle has led to artists like Kesha and Joe Jonas dropping his name in songs, and even Kelly Ripa wanted to party with the rapper, as she once said on her morning show. However, now that Sean “Diddy” Combs is in prison awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and more, many of his celebrity friends are staying pretty quiet about their connections to him. Not Nick Cannon, though. The actor spoke out about his own experiences, which included attending the parties as a teenager.
Nick Cannon was a guest on The Breakfast Club on October 11, and the subject of P. Diddy came up as they spoke about the latest developments in his legal case. After Charlamagne tha God denied ever attending a Diddy party or Bad Boy event, the Masked Singer host proceeded to admit that he had, and he’d “even been at one when I was a kid, like 16, 17.” Cannon continued:
I live my truth. I remember standing outside trying to get into a Puff party out here in New York. Like everybody was… how the ‘One More Chance’ video look? That was real, real stuff out here. Like people standing at the door, who can get in and stuff. Like, Bad Boy parties was official in New York in the late ‘90s.
Parties and events hosted by P. Diddy have come under intense scrutiny lately after Sean Combs was arrested. Authorities revealed they had found over 1,000 bottles of lubricant when his homes were raided earlier this year, and there have been reports of people allegedly being coerced into sexual situations that were filmed and being plied with drugs and alcohol for the so-called Freak Offs that would reportedly sometimes last for days.
Nick Cannon didn’t offer details as to what he saw at the parties he attended, but he seemed unwilling to pretend that Diddy parties weren’t the place to be in past decades. He also offered a theory for why he’s OK talking about it when everyone else seems to be clamming up. He said:
Everybody gets scared to talk because they probably got something to hide. I ain’t got nothing to hide. I was in there Harlem-shaking, doing all of that stuff, but it wasn’t, come on, whatever. That’s like people say ‘pause’ and all of that stuff, what you hiding? Why you always thinking like that?
The Drumline star went on to say that he was always sober at the parties and had never been drunk or done drugs in his life. He also pointed out that not every event Diddy hosted was one of his now-infamous sex parties. Cannon said:
I think it’s unfair that we are classifying a good party with a Freak Off.
Nick Cannon may not be afraid to discuss P. Diddy, but several others in the entertainment industry don’t seem willing to touch that topic. Kevin Hart appeared to try to distance himself from the music mogul by sidestepping questions regarding the baby oil confiscated from Diddy’s residences. Ashton Kutcher’s past comments regarding “a lot of things I can’t tell” have also resurfaced.
With Sean Combs’ trial not set to begin until 2025, his legal team has appealed multiple times for him to be released until then. So far, however, those requests have been denied. We’ll have to wait to see what happens and if anyone else speaks up about their own experiences in the meantime.