Misa Hylton says the release of Sean Combs: The Reckoning has brought a wave of harassment toward her and her son, Justin Combs, and she’s calling out the source of it. In her public statement, Hylton wrote that the treatment they’ve received because of “things implied by Gene Deal and stated in a recent Netflix documentary has been heartbreaking,” adding that the public is being “misled” about her family. She said she and Justin have been dragged into a “cruel game built on rumors and agendas” and emphasized that none of what’s circulating was ever asked for or deserved.
As the commentary continued to spread online, an old audio clip of Gene Deal resurfaced—one in which he openly explains why he allowed certain rumors involving Justin to circulate. Deal says the tension between him and Sean “Diddy” Combs escalated into something he considered warfare. “And it was born from there. So I went to war with this dude,” he says in the recording. From his perspective, that meant using whatever tools benefitted him: “And when you go to war with a he can’t tell you what kind of ammunition to bring to the fight. What you going to load up with. You not going to tell the ammunition that you going to use, because you going to use any and everything that comes your way life.”
The rumor that Wolf was Justin’s father is one example Deal mentions directly. “For instance, you had on the internet that said that I said that wolf was Justin’s father. I never said that.” He then admits he intentionally chose not to correct the claim. “But did I deny it? Did I act like I didn’t know? Yeah, you know why? Because anything that could hurt this… it was on from there.”
Deal also acknowledges that his silence caused harm: “You just the casualty of war right now, I know what I what I what was said, hurt Justin, because I did not clarify it to nobody.”
For Misa Hylton, that’s exactly the problem. What Deal calls “war,” she calls an attack on her child—one she’s now demanding the public stop amplifying.
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