Nick Cannon Said He Had to ‘Dance’ Around Talk of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Cassie
Federal agents arrested hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in September 2024, several months after Homeland Security swept through two of his properties. Combs now faces charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Before Homeland Security raided Combs’ homes, Cannon talked about his relationship with Combs and Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who filed a lawsuit against Combs in 2023. Here’s what Cannon said about how he had to “dance” around the subject.
Nick Cannon explained how he had to ‘dance’ around controversies surrounding Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura
Nick Cannon knows Sean “Diddy” Combs and Casandra “Cassie” Ventura personally. Ventura filed a lawsuit against Combs in November 2023 alleging that Combs was physically and sexually abusive to her during their relationship, which lasted from 2007 to 2018. Combs and Ventura settled the following day, but this marked the beginning of Combs’ downfall. As of the start of October 2024, hundreds of new assault allegations against Combs have rolled in.
Before Homeland Security raided Combs’ properties, Cannon commented on the situation between Combs and Ventura. Combs and Cannon sustained a friendship, which he discussed as a guest star on the Way Up With Angela Yee podcast, according to Entertainment Tonight.
“I find it difficult when I’m asked about people I know,” Cannon said in 2023. “… They asked me about Puff, and I answered it as honestly as I knew how to answer it. I know these people. They’re not just public figures to me.”
Cannon added that he was “sitting back praying and hoping for the best” with the situation between Combs and Ventura. However, when he heard of Combs’ abusive actions against Ventura, “You’re like, damn.”
“As we watch it, we’re watching it in real-time, and we don’t know how to feel because, one, we don’t know the truth … we don’t know everything,” he continued. “And when it’s revealed, it’ll be revealed.”
Cannon reflected on this conversation during a 2024 episode of his podcast, Counsel Culture. Cannon explained how Combs supported him in the past, putting him in a tricky position to call the mogul out for the Ventura lawsuit. “So, I have to almost do this dance about [it] when it comes up,” Cannon said. “Because just as much as I know Diddy, I know Cassie.”
Nick Cannon discussed attending Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ parties as a teen
Nick Cannon and Sean “Diddy” Combs go way back. Cannon detailed how he attended Combs’ parties when he was just 16 years old.
“I’ve even been at one when I was a kid,” he said on The Breakfast Club podcast in October 2024. “Like, 16, 17. … I remember standing outside, trying to get into a Puff party out here in New York.”
Cannon noted that “Bad Boy parties were official in New York in the late ’90s,” but celebrities now get scared to talk about them, as “they probably got something to hide.” While Cannon didn’t go into detail regarding what he saw at the parties, he noted that he never drank alcohol or did drugs while in attendance.
“I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs,” he said. “I’ve never been drunk in my life.”
There’s a ‘long list’ of celebrities in connection to the court case, an attorney says
Attorney Tony Buzbee told Law&Crime Network that many well-known celebrities will be named in the Sean “Diddy” Combs case. Many celebrities allegedly either participated in Combs’ illegal “freak-off” parties or knew what was going on behind closed doors.
“There is a long list of people,” Buzbee said. ” … I have no doubt that there are people right now who know that they were somehow involved in this who are now scrubbing their social media, who are searching their memories, who are deleting their texts, probably deleting pictures, and trying to distance themselves from this. And we know who they are, or we will find out who they are.”
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