Yung Miami broke her silence over the allegations in opposition to her ex-boyfriend Diddy this week, saying she will’t communicate to those that have accused the disgraced rapper of abuse as “that wasn’t my expertise.”
Yung Miami, actual title Caresha Brownlee, addressed the allegations throughout a dialog with Saucy Santana through the season two premiere of her Revolt TV present, Caresha Please, on Thursday. Sean “Diddy” Combs based Revolt in 2013, although he stepped down from the corporate in June and a press release on the time confirmed he was not concerned in day-to-day operations.
Brownlee and Combs first turned romantically linked in 2021. Combs joined her on Caresha Please shortly after the present’s launch in 2022, although their relationship quietly ended someday after that. The couple attended the Met Gala collectively in 2023, although advised the press they had been there as associates.
Diddy’s stepping away from Revolt got here across the similar time of studies that the rapper had an extended historical past of violence in opposition to ladies, together with allegations of rape from his ex Cassie, in addition to lawsuits relating to assault and intercourse trafficking. In March, a number of of his houses had been raided by Homeland Safety and in Might, a 2016 video surfaced exhibiting him beating Cassie in a resort hallway.
“I can’t communicate on one thing that wasn’t my expertise, I can’t communicate on one thing I don’t know,” Brownlee mentioned of the abuse allegations in opposition to her ex. “I can’t communicate on these allegations as a result of I wasn’t round on the time. I don’t know that individual and that wasn’t my expertise.”
She added, “I met Diddy… when the world was celebrating him…. He was getting the worldwide icon award, the lifetime achievement award, the important thing to town. He had a a brand new album coming ou,t and I used to be simply celebrating him with the world. I simply really feel like all people [is] making an attempt to crucify me for it [now].”
In one of many lawsuits filed in opposition to Diddy earlier this 12 months, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones named Brownlee when he claimed that Combs would brag about Brownlee and different ladies on his payroll.
“When all this stuff got here out, I simply wanted to take a break and concentrate on what’s vital, which is me and my profession and my household,” she mentioned on Thursday. “[I needed to] let him navigate and determine that out on his personal as a result of I can’t be caught up in that.”
When Santana requested once more if Diddy had ever been bodily violent in opposition to her, Brownlee mentioned she has been a sufferer of home violence prior to now, and it’s one thing she “doesn’t stand for.” She additionally spoke about her method to their relationship being from a office and training. “I went into that relationship on a extra of like, ‘I need to turn out to be a mogul and I need to study underneath you,’” she mentioned.
She additionally mentioned, via tears, that the previous few months have been troublesome. “One minute I’m completely happy, one minute I’m unhappy,” she mentioned. “One minute, I’m kinda like, ‘Fuck this shit.’ After which the subsequent minute, I’m my children, like I didn’t carry us this far to go backwards.”