Man who protected Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in knife attack recalls incident
Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs was allegedly involved in a knife attack at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Now, a fellow inmate has opened up about the incident.
Combs’ friend, Charlucci Finney, first claimed that the rapper was threatened with a knife during an interview last month.
“He woke up with a knife to his throat,” Finney said. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came, I just know that it happened. If this guy had wanted to harm him, Sean would have been harmed. It would only take a second to cut his throat with a weapon and kill him.”
He continued, “It was probably a way to say: ‘Next time you ain’t gonna be so lucky.’ Everything is intimidation. But with Sean, it won’t work. Sean is from Harlem.”
However, while speaking to the Daily Mail, former cellmate Raymond Castillo claimed the confrontation took place while Combs was watching VH1’s Basketball Wives.
“He was persistent,” he said. “He wanted the chair that Diddy was sitting in. Diddy told the guy, ‘Yo, homeboy, why are you bothering me when I am watching TV and this chair doesn’t belong to anybody. Why are you worried about this specific chair?’ I don’t know if he was bullying Diddy or looking for clout, but Diddy didn’t go for that.”
The man was allegedly holding a handmade shiv before Castillo got involved. “I jumped in between them and grabbed the guy’s hand,” he explained. “I didn’t know if he was having a bad day or a bad moment, or if he had a bad phone call.”
Castillo went on to praise Combs for how calmly he dealt with the inmate. “I’ve never seen him handle a situation like this,” he said. “He spoke to the guy differently, so it didn’t even escalate or go anywhere. He just stared this man down. Looked him straight in the eyes and spoke positively to him.
He added, “Mind you, this is Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. He could have easily yelled for the police, and he didn’t do any of that. Diddy told the guy, ‘I don’t know if you’re going through something, homeboy, but you might need to pray or something.’”
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