Diddy scrubbed his Instagram account clear final week and he confronted backlash for deleting his apology video to Cassie. Amongst these criticizing Sean Combs for the “silly” transfer is ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, who ripped the embattled music govt.
“You deleted all of the movies out of your Instagram account together with the one I simply confirmed,” he stated on the Tuesday (June 25) episode of Stephen A. Smith Present. “Should you had one million images, if you happen to had one million movies, and also you determined to delete 999,999, that’s the one it is best to’ve stored up if you happen to’re honest.”
Stephen A. continued: “And I do know that you simply’ve been taking loads of hits, and there’s been shrapnels of criticism in all places aimed in your course. Not that it wasn’t deserved … Though one might argue, the ex that you simply hit needed to cope with a hell of much more than you needed to cope with by way of the criticism.”
Smith simply couldn’t perceive how Diddy or his PR staff thought it will be the precise transfer to delete the Cassie apology video when public notion was not on his aspect.
“Delete all the things else — not that,” he claimed. “Don’t you need folks to know that you simply had been contrite? That you just had been extremely sorry? That you’ve got profound remorse for the egregious actions that you simply had been caught on digital camera committing?”
The boisterous First Take host added: “By deleting the video, you throw all of that out the window. The potential for the only a few folks that might ever consider that basically having a cause to proceed to consider you.”
Followers seen Diddy cleared his IG account final week, together with the apology video in response to footage of him bodily abusing Cassie in a Los Angeles resort. CNN shared the March 2016 video in Could, and it confirmed Diddy dragging Cassie throughout the ground of an L.A. resort elevator financial institution.
Diddy stated he was “disgusted” together with his habits within the apology video that was shared on his Instagram account. “It’s so troublesome to replicate on the darkest instances in your life, however typically you bought to do this,” he said. “I used to be f—ed up. I imply, I hit all-time low. However I make no excuses. My habits on that video is inexcusable. I take full accountability for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I used to be disgusted then once I did it, I’m disgusted now.”
Cassie accused Diddy of rape, bodily abuse and extra in a sprawling lawsuit in November. The 2 events — who dated on and off from 2007 to 2018 — would settle the dispute lower than 24 hours and phrases weren’t disclosed. The disgraced star has additionally since been accused of sexual misconduct in a number of different lawsuits; he had beforehand denied all allegations.
Watch Stephen A. Smith’s full rant on Diddy under.