Sean “Diddy” Combs apologized for his crimes and misdeeds in a letter to a judge on Thursday, where he pleaded for a merciful sentence.
In the letter, obtained by HuffPost, the media mogul insisted that he has become a changed man after spending time at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been detained since September 2024.
“First and foremost, I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct. I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest 2 years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself,” Combs’ letter read.
He then brought up his ex, singer-songwriter Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, with whom he had been together for roughly a decade. Ventura filed a groundbreaking and quickly settled lawsuit accusing Combs of rape and abuse in November 2023, paving the way for a litany of other accusers to come forward and lead to his eventual indictment and trial. Combs was also captured on surveillance video footage abusing Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway.
“I literally lost my mind. I was dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved,” he said. “My domestic violence will always be a heavy burden that I will have to forever carry. The remorse, the sorrow, the regret, the disappointment, the shame. I honestly feel sorry for something that I couldn’t forgive someone else for: if they put their hands on one of my daughters.”
