Will Smith made uncommon feedback about Sean “Diddy” Combs whereas onstage, denying any connection to the music mogul’s alleged crimes.
The Oscar winner, who launched a brand new music referred to as “Tantrum,” carried out on the Observatory North Park theater in San Diego on Thursday, Dec. 12.
Movies shared on TikTok and obtained by TMZ present Smith addressing the gang between songs, talking about memes linking him to Combs.
“The world we’re in proper now, it is actually laborious for y’all to discern what’s actual and what’s true, you realize?” he mentioned within the clip. “I have been seeing y’all’s memes and stuff … A few of that stuff’s humorous. … I have never addressed any of this publicly, however I simply wanna say this very clearly: I haven’t got s— to do with Puffy, so y’all can cease all them memes. You’ll be able to cease all of that bulls—.”
“I ain’t been nowhere close to that man, ain’t did none of that silly s—,” Smith, 56, who’s been beforehand photographed with Combs at trade occasions over time, mentioned from the stage. “So at any time when y’all hear it, if any individual say that, it is a rattling lie.”
Combs, 55, is in federal custody in New York Metropolis after his September indictment on prices of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution.
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He’s alleged to have used coercion to make ladies take part in so-called “freak-offs,” described by prosecutors as “elaborate and produced intercourse performances.” Prosecutors additionally say authorities discovered “freak-off provides,” together with medication and over 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant, after they raided Combs’ houses in Los Angeles and Miami in March.
Combs has denied committing any wrongdoing. His attorneys beforehand mentioned in a press release to PEOPLE after the primary wave of civil assault complaints that he “can not handle each meritless allegation in what has grow to be a reckless media circus,” however that he “emphatically” denied sexually abusing anybody.
Combs will stay behind bars till his trial in Could 2025. His authorized counsel filed a movement Dec. 13 to dismiss his attraction for bail in his ongoing intercourse trafficking and racketeering case.
Within the current video, Smith made a joke onstage whereas denying any connection to Combs: “I do not even like child oil,” he mentioned with fun.
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He then added, “However, no, having mentioned that publicly. Y’all the primary time. I normally do not reply to dumbass stuff as a result of it is so many issues. Individuals say a lot stuff. However that one — your memes was doin’ an excessive amount of. Y’all was having me mad.”
Jamie Foxx is one other superstar who not too long ago cleared up on-line conspiracies making an attempt to attach him to Combs. In his Netflix particular that debuted Tuesday, Dec. 10 titled Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was…, Foxx mentioned, “I left them events early. I used to be out by 9. One thing don’t look proper. It’s slippery in right here.”
