Wendy Williams was as soon as the queen of New York radio and made many associates – and one large enemy – by her standard Sizzling 97 present.
The previous host, 60, had an extended historical past of feuds with Sean “Diddy” Combs and even accused the Unhealthy Boy billionaire of being solely answerable for getting her fired from this system in 1998 and kicked off the airwaves for good.Â
Years later, Williams discovered success together with her personal self-titled speak present however not with out repeated claims that Diddy tried to sabotage her profession alongside the way in which. Williams just lately broke her silence on Diddy’s arrest after a federal investigation and instructed the Every day Mail, “It is about time.”
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Wendy Williams resented Diddy for years after she claimed he ruined her profession. (Getty Pictures)
Williams’ beef with the highly effective producer started earlier than she was fired from New York’s greatest radio station. She claimed on a 2005 episode of “The Wendy Williams Expertise” that ladies from considered one of Diddy’s lady teams, Whole, practically beat her up.
Throughout a 2019 episode of her speak present, Williams hinted that Diddy was concerned within the scuffle, and she or he recalled the second she got here face-to-face with the ladies after signing off the air.
Sean “Diddy” Combs throughout the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
“As soon as upon a time, there was a music mogul who despatched his all-girl group to beat my a– in entrance of the radio station. Reality!” she stated. “I completed my shift, spherical up my headphones, put my bag [on] my arm and I see all people lined up on the window wanting down on the sidewalk.
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“I discover this lady group, leap out of a gypsy cab, to return after me,” she alleged. “To beat my a–! For what? You recognize what I stated was true. You all had been broke, and also you had been residing within the tasks and that was that.”
Fox Information Digital contacted members of Whole for remark.
Diddy was in attendance on the “Wendy Williams Brings The Warmth, Vol. 1” launch occasion in 2005. (Getty Pictures)
She wrote in her 2004 e-book a few “sure degree of contempt for Puff” as a result of he “single-handedly tried to smash” her profession. “The hell he put me by. I’ll always remember. However I do not hate him,” she wrote.
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Williams hinted in 2013 how her Sizzling 97 firing was because of the “I will Be Lacking You” singer, who had a stronghold over the New York hip hop music scene on the time.
“The hell he put me by. I’ll always remember. However I do not hate him.”
“There was a radio persona as soon as upon a time and her identify was Wendy Williams, and she or he was virtually burned on the stake for speaking about such, and now it’s all come full circle,” she stated on Vlad TV. “There have been many conditions again within the day in my profession, and it’s all coming full circle.”
Williams was working in radio within the ’90s when she claimed Diddy received her fired. (Getty Pictures)
Wendy Williams from 107.5 FM (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Williams often made enjoyable of Diddy’s identify modifications all through his profession. The recording tycoon had a historical past of adjusting his moniker and at one level was often known as Puff Daddy, then Puffy (a Williams favourite), adopted by P. Diddy, Sean John after which merely “Diddy.”
“I don’t like when individuals change their names in the course of our relationship,” Williams stated throughout an episode of “The Wendy Williams Present” in 2015. “Like don’t inform [me to] name you Diddy, I do know you as Puffy, that’s it.”
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Charlamagne Tha God, Williams’ former co-host, addressed her Sizzling 97 firing on a Could episode of “The Artwork of Dialogue.”
Charlamagne tha God knew intimate particulars about Wendy’s historical past with Diddy. (Getty Pictures)
“That was Wendy,” he stated. “Wendy’s entire factor was Diddy was homosexual because the ‘90s. Wendy was throwing that on the market. … That’s why Wendy received fired from Sizzling 97. Wendy received fired from Sizzling 97 by Diddy as a result of that is when Unhealthy Boy was smoking sizzling and, yeah, she received fired for placing that on the market.”
When Diddy and Cassie briefly break up in 2015, she alluded to energy dynamic points between the couple.Â
“My factor about whenever you date a mogul, it’s actually tough to keep away from them as a result of for those who use your head, you by no means know after they’ll pop up on the scene,” she stated. “He can rent a airplane proper now … land on the roof of the lodge she’s staying, pay individuals off on the entrance desk. ‘Give me a key and let me up in her room.’ I’m already paranoid as an individual.”
In 2017, Wendy and Diddy put 15 years of beef behind them when he appeared on her speak present to plug his new movie, “Cannot Cease Will not Cease: A Unhealthy Boy Story.”
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“The drama of all of it … welcome,” Wendy stated after Diddy walked on stage. “Thanks, thanks very a lot,” he stated. “I need to say it has been a very long time coming, and I simply wish to inform you how proud I’m of you as a result of I do not suppose you get sufficient credit score for being the primary one to actually cowl our tradition, hip hop tradition, hip hop celebrities … however you began shedding mild on our tradition and our individuals and thanks very a lot.
Earlier than Diddy appeared on her present, Wendy and Diddy appeared to fix fences at a celebration in 2015. (Getty Pictures)
Diddy roamed the Bayfront Park Amphitheater for Pitbull’s New 12 months’s Eve festivities. (Getty Pictures)
“I do know I pissed lots of people off, together with you, however it is a full-circle second all people. Get into grownup conversations,” Williams stated. At one level throughout the dialog, Williams’ son, Kevin Hunt, Jr., was introduced up, to the dismay of the speak present host.
Williams stated, “And let me inform you one thing, because the mom of a now 16-year-old,” earlier than Diddy interrupted, saying, “Mmm, who I met backstage. He is an awesome younger man.” Williams gave the impression to be flustered by their assembly.
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When Cassie and Diddy lastly broke up for good in 2018, Williams needed the pair to get again collectively however then modified her thoughts after witnessing Diddy’s makes an attempt to woo Cassie again by way of social media.
“I counsel don’t use social media although to achieve out. I believe this was a grand overture from Puffy. I don’t consider he actually needs her again,” she stated. “I consider he most likely handled her, in some unspecified time in the future, like a possession. In case you actually cared then you definately’d attain out privately not publicly.”
Wendy has one son, Kevin Jr., together with her ex-husband. (Getty Pictures)
Cassie filed a sexual abuse swimsuit towards Diddy in November, and it was settled in the future later. (Getty Pictures)
This week, Williams, who has largely stayed out of the highlight since her dementia prognosis earlier this yr, broke her silence on the Diddy scandal and admitted she was horrified to see the 2016 video footage of Combs allegedly attacking Cassie within the hallway of a Los Angeles lodge.
“What is basically bizarre is that I’ve been instructed by so many individuals, “Wendy you referred to as it,'” she instructed the Every day Mail. “Together with some individuals from my household who’ve stated the identical. You understand how I really feel about that? It’s about time. To see this video on TV of [Cassie] getting pummeled. … it was simply horrific. However now it’s a must to suppose, what number of extra instances? How many individuals? What number of extra girls? It’s simply so horrible.”
Representatives for Williams didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
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Diddy was arrested Sept. 16 and charged the subsequent day with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; and transportation to interact in prostitution. He entered a not responsible plea hours after an indictment detailing his alleged intercourse crimes was unsealed. If discovered responsible, he faces a minimal of 15 years behind bars or a most sentence of life in jail.
Authorities alleged Diddy ran a felony enterprise by his companies, together with Unhealthy Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises and Combs International, amongst others. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to satisfy his sexual wishes, based on the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox Information Digital.
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Diddy and his workers would “intimidate, threaten, and lure feminine victims into Combs’ orbit, typically below the pretense of a romantic relationship. Combs allegedly then used pressure, threats of pressure and coercion to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse staff that Combs known as, amongst different issues, ‘freak offs.'”Â
Sean “Diddy” Combs sits between his attorneys, Marc Agnifilo, left, and Teny Geragos, in Manhattan Federal Court docket final month. (Elizabeth Williams by way of AP)
Previous to the U.S. Lawyer’s press convention in September, Combs’ legal professional stated they plan to combat for the rapper to be launched.
“His spirits are good. He is assured,” Combs’ legal professional, Marc Agnifilo, stated exterior the courthouse Sept. 17. “He’s coping with this head-on, the way in which he is handled each problem in his life. And he is not responsible. He is harmless of those prices. He’ll plead not responsible, clearly.Â
“He’ll combat this with all of his vitality and all of his would possibly and the complete confidence of his attorneys. And I count on an extended battle with a superb end result for Mr. Combs.”
