Sean “Diddy” Combs and Wendy Williams had a contentious relationship for years. She frequently spoke about him on her radio show and even dedicated a full chapter of her 2004 book to him. Williams said that she found Diddy off-putting because she thought he was attempting to hide how dangerous he was. She thought he was more of a danger than someone like Suge Knight.
Wendy Williams thought Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hid how dangerous he was
In 1999, Diddy was arrested following a shooting at a club. He was acquitted, but Williams still considered him incredibly dangerous.
“Don’t get it twisted. In my opinion, Puffy is a very dangerous man,” she wrote in The Wendy Williams Experience. “He may not wear his danger the way someone like, say, Suge Knight — who is six four, and 350 pounds — wears his, but he is dangerous all the same. Suge wears his fear and intimidation, Puffy hides behind his shiny suits, which makes him more dangerous because you don’t necessarily see him coming.”
She said she could hardly believe that Diddy walked away from the shooting without facing charges.
“Something is rotten in Puffy’s camp,” Williams wrote. “I am still baffled how he was able to walk away scot-free while [Moses ‘Shyne’ Barrow] got ten years. I think he sold his soul to the devil a long time ago, to be quite honest with you. Perhaps that’s why things like this keep happening to Puffy.”
Suge Knight said he didn’t have much respect for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Knight was also baffled by the fact that Diddy got off after the nightclub shooting. He thought that the fact that Barrow ended up serving prison time was terrible. It made him lose almost all respect for Diddy.
“I would do what I can do to get [Barrow] out,” he said. “He don’t necessarily have to be an artist on Tha Row, but I would do it because I think that was like one of the worst things that could happen to anybody. That’s when I had a little, little, little, little respect respect for Puffy. The little respect was ‘cause he’s black. After what he did to Shyne —”
He believed Diddy snitched on Barrow.
“He’s a rat,” Knight said, adding, “I do not like rats. I do not like snitches. I think a rat is the lowest that you can get.”
Wendy Williams and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs feuded for years
While Diddy and Williams feuded for years, she said she didn’t hate him. She didn’t like him either, though.
“For the record, I do not hate Sean ‘Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy’ Combs,” she wrote. “I do not hate anyone, for that matter. I do, however, hold a certain level of contempt for Puffy. He single-handedly tried to ruin me, tried to ruin my career. He spent a lot of money and used a lot of his influence to try to crush me in New York in the late 1990s.”
Despite this, she still wanted him to come on her radio show.
“I would love to interview Puffy,” she wrote. “But it isn’t a goal of mine. I set reasonable goals for myself — goals that I have some assuredness that I can make happen. Interviewing Puffy isn’t very reasonable because it doesn’t depend solely on me.”
In 2017, Diddy appeared on The Wendy Williams Show.
