Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mother Janice Combs is breaking her silence after the release of rapper 50 Cent’s bombshell Netflix documentary.
“I am writing this statement to correct some of the lies presented in the Netflix, Sean Combs: The Reckoning, released on December 2, 2025,” Janice, 85, said in a statement to Deadline on Saturday, December 6. “These inaccuracies regarding my son Sean’s upbringing and family life is intentionally done to mislead viewers and further harm our reputation.”
Janice, who attended nearly every day of her son’s two-month-long trial earlier this year, accused Netflix of dabbling in the “salacious to promote the series.” (Diddy was arrested in September 2024 on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. He was found guilty of two counts of transportation for purposes of prostitution, but acquitted of the sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Diddy is currently serving a 50-month sentence and has maintained his innocence.).
“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,” Janice claimed. “That was a very sad day for all of us.”
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A portion of the documentary focused on a deadly basketball game at City College, in which Diddy promoted at the time, that left nine people dead and another 30 injured.
“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,” Janice added.
NewsPlop has reached out to Netflix and 50 Cent’s team for comment.
On December 28, 1991, nine people were crushed after people attempted to crash the gates and enter a charity basketball game promoted by Diddy at City College in New York City. Several rappers were in attendance at the game, and according to reports at the time, some fans still pushed ahead in an attempt to obtain autographs from their favorite performers — even after it was obvious people had been hurt and killed.
Netflix began streaming the four-part docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning on Tuesday, December 2. The docuseries, produced by 50 Cent, follows Diddy’s rise in the music industry and also features interviews with childhood friends, ex-associates and former employees who all shed light on what they claim they saw, experienced and who they believe he is as a person.
“I’ve been committed to real storytelling for years through G-Unit Film and Television,” 50 Cent previously said in a statement to Tudum. “I’m grateful to everyone who came forward and trusted us with their stories and proud to have Alexandria Stapleton as the director on the project to bring this important story to the screen.”
On December 1, Diddy and his legal team sent a cease and desist letter to Netflix prior to the release of the documentary, along with a statement in which the disgraced rap mogul described the docuseries as a “hit piece.”
“As Netflix and CEO Ted Sarandos know, Mr. Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to tell his own story, in his own way,” the statement also read. “It is fundamentally unfair, and illegal, for Netflix to misappropriate that work.”
Diddy also condemned the streamer’s partnership with 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, for giving “creative control” to the rapper, who Diddy and his legal team claim have “a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta who has spent too much time slandering Mr. Combs.”
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A Netflix spokesperson responded to Diddy and his legal team’s claims via a statement to Us, calling their descriptions of the docuseries as “false.”
“The project has no ties to any past conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Us on Tuesday, December 2. “The footage of Combs leading up to his indictment and arrest were legally obtained. This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson [50 Cent] is an executive producer but does not have creative control. No one was paid to participate.”
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