Wendy Williams used to be as soon as the queen of Untouched York radio and made many pals – and one large enemy – thru her usual Scorching 97 display.
The previous host, 60, had a protracted historical past of feuds with Sean “Diddy” Combs or even accused the Malicious Boy billionaire of being only answerable for getting her fired from this system in 1998 and kicked off the airwaves for just right.Â
Years then, Williams discovered good fortune together with her personal self-titled communicate display however no longer with out repeated claims that Diddy attempted to sabotage her occupation alongside the best way. Williams not too long ago poor her hush on Diddy’s arrest next a federal investigation and informed the Day by day Mail, “It’s about time.”
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Wendy Williams resented Diddy for years next she claimed he ruined her occupation. (Getty Photographs)
Williams’ pork with the tough manufacturer started ahead of she used to be fired from Untouched York’s greatest radio station. She claimed on a 2005 episode of “The Wendy Williams Experience” that ladies from one in all Diddy’s woman teams, General, just about beat her up.
All over a 2019 episode of her communicate display, Williams hinted that Diddy used to be concerned within the scuffle, and he or she recalled the hour she got here face-to-face with the ladies next signing off the wind.
Sean “Diddy” Combs right through the 1999 MTV Europe Song Awards. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
“Once upon a time, there was a music mogul who sent his all-girl group to beat my a– in front of the radio station. Fact!” she stated. “I finished my shift, round up my headphones, put my bag [on] my arm and I see everybody lined up at the window looking down on the sidewalk.
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“I in finding this woman crew, soar out of a gypsy cab, to come back next me,” she alleged. “To overcome my a–! For what? You understand what I stated used to be true. You all have been poor, and also you have been dwelling within the tasks and that used to be that.”
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Diddy was in attendance at the “Wendy Williams Brings The Warmth, Vol. 1” release party in 2005. (Getty Images)
She wrote in her 2004 book about a “sure degree of contempt for Puff” because he “single-handedly attempted to wreck” her career. “The hell he put me thru. I will be able to by no means put out of your mind. However I don’t abhor him,” she wrote.
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Williams hinted in 2013 how her Scorching 97 firing used to be because of the “I’ll Be Lacking You” singer, who had a stronghold over the New York hip hop music scene at the time.
“The hell he put me thru. I will be able to by no means put out of your mind. However I don’t abhor him.”
“There used to be a radio character there was once a time and her identify used to be Wendy Williams, and he or she used to be almost burned on the stake for speaking about such, and now it’s all come complete circle,” she said on Vlad TV. “There have been many statuses again within the month in my occupation, and it’s all coming complete circle.”
Williams was working in radio in the ’90s when she claimed Diddy got her fired. (Getty Images)
Wendy Williams from 107.5 FM (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Williams regularly made fun of Diddy’s name changes throughout his career. The recording tycoon had a history of changing his moniker and at one point was known as Puff Daddy, then Puffy (a Williams favorite), followed by P. Diddy, Sean John and then simply “Diddy.”
“I don’t like when population alternate their names in the course of our dating,” Williams said during an episode of “The Wendy Williams Display” in 2015. “Like don’t inform [me to] name you Diddy, I do know you as Puffy, that’s it.”
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Charlamagne Tha God, Williams’ former co-host, addressed her Scorching 97 firing on a Might episode of “The Artwork of Discussion.”
Charlamagne tha God knew intimate details about Wendy’s history with Diddy. (Getty Images)
“That used to be Wendy,” he said. “Wendy’s complete factor used to be Diddy used to be homosexual because the ‘90s. Wendy was throwing that out there. … That’s why Wendy were given fired from Scorching 97. Wendy were given fired from Scorching 97 via Diddy as a result of that’s when Malicious Boy used to be smoking sizzling and, yeah, she were given fired for placing that available in the market.”
When Diddy and Cassie briefly split in 2015, she alluded to power dynamic issues between the couple.Â
“My factor about while you life a tycoon, it’s actually tough to keep away from them as a result of when you worth your head, you by no means know after they’ll pop up at the scene,” she said. “He can rent a aircraft at the moment … land at the roof of the lodge she’s staying, pay population off on the entrance table. ‘Give me a key and let me up in her room.’ I’m already paranoid as an individual.”
In 2017, Wendy and Diddy put 15 years of beef behind them when he appeared on her talk show to plug his new film, “Can’t Prevent Gained’t Prevent: A Malicious Boy Tale.”
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“The drama of all of it … welcome,” Wendy said after Diddy walked on stage. “Thanks, thanks very a lot,” he said. “I will have to say it’s been a protracted past coming, and I simply wish to inform you how proud I’m of you as a result of I don’t assume you get plethora credit score for being the primary one to actually preserve our tradition, hip hop tradition, hip hop celebrities … however you began losing brightness on our tradition and our population and thanks very a lot.
Prior to Diddy seemed on her display, Wendy and Diddy looked as if it would mend fences at a birthday celebration in 2015. (Getty Photographs)
Diddy roamed the Bayfront Soil Amphitheater for Pitbull’s Untouched Life’s Eve festivities. (Getty Photographs)
“I know I pissed a lot of people off, including you, but this is a full-circle moment everybody. Get into adult conversations,” Williams stated. At one level right through the dialog, Williams’ son, Kevin Hunt, Jr., used to be introduced up, to the dismay of the debate display host.
Williams stated, “And let me tell you something, as the mother of a now 16-year-old,” ahead of Diddy interrupted, announcing, “Mmm, who I met backstage. He’s a great young man.” Williams seemed to be flustered via their assembly.
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When Cassie and Diddy in spite of everything poor up for just right in 2018, Williams sought after the pair to get again in combination however later modified her thoughts next witnessing Diddy’s makes an attempt to woo Cassie again by the use of social media.
“I suggest don’t use social media though to reach out. I think this was a grand overture from Puffy. I don’t believe he really wants her back,” she stated. “I believe he probably treated her, at some point, like a possession. If you really cared then you’d reach out privately not publicly.”
Wendy has one son, Kevin Jr., together with her ex-husband. (Getty Photographs)
Cassie filed a sexual abuse swimsuit towards Diddy in November, and it used to be settled one month then. (Getty Photographs)
This time, Williams, who has in large part stayed out of the highlight since her dementia analysis previous this presen, poor her hush at the Diddy scandal and admitted she used to be horrified to peer the 2016 video photos of Combs allegedly attacking Cassie within the hallway of a Los Angeles lodge.
“What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people, “Wendy you known as it,'” she told the Daily Mail. “Together with some population from my people who’ve stated the similar. You know the way I think about that? It’s about past. To look this video on TV of [Cassie] getting pummeled. … it used to be simply dreadful. However now you need to assume, what number of extra occasions? What number of population? What number of extra ladies? It’s in order that terrible.”
Representatives for Williams did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Diddy was arrested Sept. 16 and charged the next day with racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution. He entered a not guilty plea hours after an indictment detailing his alleged sex crimes was unsealed. If found guilty, he faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars or a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Authorities alleged Diddy ran a criminal enterprise through his businesses, including Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs Enterprises and Combs Global, among others. He used “firearms, blackmails of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to fulfill his sexual desires, according to the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox News Digital.
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Diddy and his employees would “intimidate, threaten, and entice feminine sufferers into Combs’ orbit, frequently beneath the pretense of a romantic dating. Combs allegedly later worn pressure, blackmails of pressure and coercion to purpose sufferers to have interaction in prolonged intercourse acts with male business intercourse employees that Combs known as, amongst alternative issues, ‘freak offs.'”Â
Sean “Diddy” Combs sits between his lawyers, Marc Agnifilo, left, and Teny Geragos, in Manhattan Federal Court last month. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Prior to the U.S. Attorney’s press conference in September, Combs’ attorney said they plan to fight for the rapper to be released.
“His spirits are just right. He’s assured,” Combs’ attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said outside the courthouse Sept. 17. “He’s coping with this head-on, the best way he’s handled each problem in his generation. And he’s no longer responsible. He’s blameless of those fees. He’s moving to plead no longer responsible, clearly.Â
“He’s going to fight this with all of his energy and all of his might and the full confidence of his lawyers. And I expect a long battle with a good result for Mr. Combs.”
