USHER has opened up about his time living with Sean Combs as a teen.
The Super Bowl halftime show star hinted at the wild things he saw and experienced while speaking to Howard Stern in a throwback interview.
In a clip from The Howard Stern Show shared on YouTube 7 years ago, Usher, 45, recalled moving in with Combs, 54 – who also goes by Diddy and previously Puff Daddy – when he moved to New York City.
“I moved to New York City, and I lived with Sean Puffy Combs for a year,” Usher recalled.
“That’s the crazy thing, now that was LA Reid’s idea, right?” Howard asked, referring to the former CEO of Epic Records, before joking, “We’re sending you over to something called Puffy’s Flavor Camp, and you’re going to go to Puff Daddy’s…
“Puffy’s place was just filled with chicks and orgying, like, non-stop, right?”
Usher responded, “Not really, I mean… but, hey, it was curious, I got a chance to see some things.”
“Yeah, but you were 13! What were you seeing?” Radio star Howard questioned.
“I went there to see the lifestyle, and I saw it… but I don’t know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at. It was pretty wild, it was crazy,” Usher claimed.
When asked if his words meant that no women had approached him at the house, Usher responded, “I ain’t say that. What I did say is that there were very curious things taking place, and I didn’t necessarily understand it.”
Howard later asked if Usher was made to do chores to “stay humble,” and then followed, “Could you stay up until 4 in the morning with them and party?”
“I mean I could, I actually stayed up longer than them,” the rap music icon replied.
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Later on, Howard asked if Usher would consider sending his own son, Usher Raymond V, now 16, into a similar situation.
“What a life, 14 years old. You’re a dad now, would you ever send your kid to Puffy Camp?”
“Hell no!” Usher exclaimed in response.
TROUBLING ALLEGATIONS
Usher gave his interview about his time with Diddy years ago, with the older musician now facing several lawsuits, and two of his homes in Florida and Los Angeles respectively having been raided by federal agents and the Department of Homeland Security on Monday.
Back in 2023, Diddy’s former partner, Casandra Ventura, better known as Cassie, accused the rap icon of sexual abuse, assault, and sex trafficking.
Cassie’s lawsuit stated that she faced “a cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking” until her relationship with Diddy ended in 2018.
Cassie and Diddy settled the lawsuit in November 2023, a day after the filing, but other lawsuits were filed against Diddy just days later.
I went there to see the lifestyle, and I saw it… but I don’t know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at. It was pretty wild, it was crazy.
Usher
Joi Dickerson accused Diddy of drugging and raping her and filming the attack when she was a 19-year-old college student in January 1991.
A second accuser in a separate lawsuit claimed that Diddy and another man sexually assaulted her and a friend in 1990 or 1991 then showed up at her apartment and beat her several days later.
A third woman, identified as Jane Doe in court documents, claimed that she was gang raped by three men including Diddy and Harve Pierre, president of Bad Boy Entertainment, in 2003.
Diddy was hit with another lawsuit in February 2024 when Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who helped produce Diddy’s most recent album, claimed that the mogul sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him from September 2022 to November 2023 when they worked together.
Diddy has strongly denied the claims in all of the lawsuits filed against him.
TUPAC TRIAL
Alongside the lawsuits piled up against Diddy, he has also become involved in the discourse surrounding the murder of a fellow celebrity musician.
Accusations emerged that Diddy was involved in the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur, who was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996.
Back in October, The U.S. Sun exclusively reported that Tupac murder suspect Duane “Keefe D” Davis claimed that Diddy was involved in the murder during a police recording.
The suspect claimed that Diddy orchestrated the crime, and offered a high amount of money for the assassination. The recording has been submitted as evidence in Keefe’s trial.
Keefe, who is currently awaiting trial over Tupac’s murder in Las Vegas, made the claim that Diddy asked him to “take out” Pac and record label boss Suge Knight in his book, in social media interviews and even in a recorded “proffer” interview with LAPD detectives.
Previously, Diddy has dismissed claims he was involved in Tupac’s death as “nonsense.”
