Music superstar Usher was adamant and unequivocal when he answered whether he’d ever let his children stay at Diddy’s house.
“Hell no,” the Confessions crooner blurted out quickly and resolutely.
It is a well-known and much-recycled industry tale that, more than 30 years ago, Usher moved into Sean “Diddy” Combs’ home in New York when he was about 13 years old in the 1990s. Diddy, 54, was known by the monikers “Puffy” and “Puff Daddy” three decades ago.
Usher Raymond IV, now 45, confessed that what he witnessed at Diddy’s house blew his mind and admits he had trouble processing some of the things his innocent eyes saw in that house as a newly minted teenager. However, he declined to go into details.
Usher’s old interview with Howard Stern goes viral the 2nd time around
The six-year-old interview with radio show legend Howard Stern and co-host Robin Quivers has been excavated out of obscurity because of the recent succession of inflammatory sexual assault and rape lawsuits filed against Diddy.
“I moved to New York City and I lived with Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs for a year… in the ’90s. Do you understand what that’s like?!” Usher began, adding that the undertaking was hatched by music industry legend Antonio “L.A.” Reid.
“I went there to see the lifestyle. And I saw it. But I don’t know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at. It was pretty wild. It was crazy,” Usher described with a look of wonderment washing over his face.
Usher added, “There were very curious things taking place and I didn’t necessarily understand it.”
Usher’s mentorship program and musical “tutorial” happened during the golden age of hip hop when Diddy-adjacent acts like Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, Lil Kim, Mary J. Blige, and Jodeci were orbiting Diddy’s universe and were spotted at his house with great frequency.
When co-host Robin Quivers asked Ushers if his parents allowed this to happen, Usher quickly answered, “My parents ain’t know about this s—. I was just having a good time.”
Stern concluded the segment by asking: “You’re a dad now. Would you ever send your kid to a Puffy camp?”
“Hell no,” Usher shot back authoritatively.
Many fans are even more disgusted with Usher’s former mentor Diddy
The revelations make some fans become further repulsed by Diddy. The once-admired music mogul’s legacy is crumbling under the weight of a succession of inflammatory civil lawsuits accusing Diddy of rape, sex trafficking, drug abuse, prostitution, and physical abuse.
“Ughhhhh this makes me cringe.….. Diddy is sick,” one person responded in the comments section of ‘The Neighborhood Watch’ where the video was reposted.
A second person added, “Him saying hell no he would never send his kids to Diddy camp is very telling!”
