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NEED TO KNOW
- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex Misa Hylton has detailed why she determined to attend his prison trial in New York Metropolis final week
- “When my son mentioned, ‘Mommy, I want you,’ I used to be proper there for him walker and all,” the style designer wrote in an Instagram put up on Might 18
- Hylton and Combs share a son, 31-year-old Justin Combs
Misa Hylton, who was in a relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs within the early ’90s, ha spoken out about her look on the rapper’s New York Metropolis prison trial.
In an Instagram put up shared on Saturday, Might 18, Hylton, 52, defined why she determined to attend the trial in help of her and Combs’ 31-year-old son, Justin Combs.
“Sure, I am good everybody. I am on my therapeutic journey,” Hylton started her prolonged caption, explaining that she was utilizing a walker on the courthouse because of a current leg harm.
“Once I suffered my harm I had chosen to heal privately,” the superstar stylist continued, “however when my son mentioned, ‘Mommy, I want you,’ I used to be proper there for him walker and all.”
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Sharing her help for her son — who has beforehand supplied his personal public support for his father amid his sex-trafficking allegations — Hylton wrote, “I am a MOTHER FIRST, FOR REAL, and I’m my son’s energy and that is simply what it’s. Plain and easy.”
“Whoever does not perceive that simply merely is not in alignment with me or something that I am about in life. I am cool with that,” she added, partly. “I’ve a purpose-filled life that I reside every day. I make impression. I am not involved with insecure folks trying to venture their insecurities on to me. EVER.”
Hylton additionally shared a quick message addressing using her walker: “To all of my briefly disabled and disabled folks, do not ever be ashamed of your situation or the necessity to use the medical instruments created to help in your therapeutic or the best way it’s good to transfer round on this world. 💪🏽.”
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“When you have God in your coronary heart, pray for us all. Be sort, use essential considering and maintain your head excessive,” she concluded the put up, earlier than ending with a joke: “P.S. It took me the whole lot in my soul to not flip into Pac leaving the courtroom, exterior of the courthouse 😭😭😭 [If you know, you know].”
The “I’ll Be Lacking You” rapper, 55, and Hylton dated within the early ’90s, they usually welcomed their son Justin in December 1993. Although the couple broke up shortly after, they’ve remained shut, and Hylton has been photographed with Combs at many occasions since.
The style designer has additionally been outspoken in regards to the allegations towards her ex.
After Combs’ Los Angeles home was raided in March 2024, Hylton criticized the Homeland Security agents’ use of “overzealous and overtly militarized pressure” towards Justin and his brother, Christian “King” Combs, who had been handcuffed throughout the raid.
“[The force] used towards my sons Justin and Christian is deplorable. If these had been the sons of a non-Black superstar, they might not have been dealt with with the identical aggression,” she wrote on Instagram, posting video footage of Justin and Christian being handcuffed by Homeland Safety brokers. “The try to humiliate and terrorize these harmless younger BLACK MEN is despicable!”
Moreover, after CNN launched footage of Combs allegedly physically assaulting his then-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in a resort in March 2016, Hylton extended her support in an Instagram put up alongside pictures of Combs’ seven youngsters.
“I’m heartbroken that Cassie should relive the horror of her abuse, and my coronary heart goes out to her. I do know precisely how she feels, and thru my empathy, it has triggered my very own trauma,” she wrote.
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Hylton continued, “These younger folks had been raised by girls that need the most effective for them – we put God and schooling first and have all the time been united in our mutual effort to help their goals. Two of the youngest should not have their mom right here and it has been our responsibility to help them.”
She added that the youngsters’s father “wants assist” and that she was “praying that he actually does the non-public work and receives it.”
Combs, who was arrested in September 2024, has denied all the allegations towards him and pleaded not guilty to 5 prison counts, together with one rely of racketeering conspiracy; two counts of intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; and two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
His trial, which began with opening statements on May 12, is predicted to final a number of weeks. The mogul is presently being held with out bail on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn. If convicted, he faces a possible life sentence.