Warning: This text comprises dialogue of sexual assault and drug habit
Forward of his sentencing as we speak (3 October), Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has written a letter to Choose Arun Subramanian.
Apologising for ‘all of the damage and ache that I’ve precipitated’, the disgraced music exec has requested for leniency, and claims he’s been reformed after his time in a Brooklyn jail.
Diddy was discovered responsible of two prostitution costs in July, following practically eight weeks in court docket. He was cleared of extra critical costs of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking, however faces a most of 20 years in jail.
Prosecutors are calling for a sentence of at the very least 11 years, whereas the music mogul’s attorneys are asking for him to be launched later this month.
In addition to admitting a 25-year first, Diddy blames his previous behaviour on drug habit.
Within the four-page letter, he apologises for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Cassie, as he writes: “I actually misplaced my thoughts.”
Diddy says he’s ‘sorry for that and at all times might be’ and that he was ‘lifeless fallacious’ to place his arms on the lady he liked, as he added: “My home violence will at all times be heavy burden that should eternally carry.”
He additionally provides an apology to an nameless girl who testified as ‘Jane’ through the trial, as he says he was ‘misplaced within the medicine and the surplus’.
The passage reads: “I misplaced my approach. My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I’ve been humbled and damaged to my core.”
Diddy tells Choose Subramanian that he takes ‘full accountability and accountability’ for his ‘previous wrongs’.
Combs additionally discusses his expertise throughout his final 13 months in jail, and says he’s completely satisfied to be sober for the primary time in 25 years.
“I’ve needed to look within the mirror like by no means earlier than,” he writes. “My ache grew to become my trainer. My unhappiness was my motivator. I’ve to confess, my downfall was rooted in my selfishness.”
He claims the ‘previous’ him ‘died in jail’: “And a brand new model of me was reborn. Jail will change you or kill you—I select to stay.”
Now, he’s asking the choose ‘for mercy’ not just for his sake, however ‘for the sake of’ his seven youngsters.
“I’ve failed my youngsters as a father. My father was murdered after I was 3 years previous so I do know first-hand what it’s to not have a father,” he writes. “Greater than something, I simply need the chance to return dwelling and be the daddy that they want and deserve.”
Diddy asks the choose ‘for an additional probability’ as whereas he can’t ‘change the previous’, he believes he ‘can change the longer term’.
“Between of all of my losses and classes, I can state for a indisputable fact that I’ll by no means be in one other legal Courtroom once more and I don’t imagine every other individual would do something related from concern of comparable punishment,” he writes.
“If you happen to give me an opportunity, I would love the chance to share my story with individuals to stop at the very least one individual from making the errors that I’ve made.”
Concluding his letter, Diddy says: “I’m scripting this to not achieve any sympathy or pity, this expertise is just the reality of my existence and has modified my life eternally and I’ll by no means commit against the law once more.”
Whereas witnesses from the trial additionally write to the choose asking him to not be lenient, the sentencing is about to happen at 3pm UK time as we speak.
