Diddy's Mom Responds to Netflix Documentary — And It's Getting Ugly
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The documentary "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" doesn't just cover Diddy's trial and conviction. It makes a bigger argument: that the behavior that landed him in federal prison started in childhood. That it was learned. Normalized. That before there was Puff Daddy or Bad Boy Records, there was a kid in Mount Vernon — and whatever happened to that kid matters.
Two witnesses make the case against Janice Combs. Tim Patterson, a childhood friend, says he watched Janice physically abuse Sean for years. He describes parties at the family home with pimps, drug dealers, and adults having sex in rooms kids could walk into. Kirk Burrowes, who co-founded Bad Boy Entertainment, says he witnessed Sean slap his mother during an argument after the 1991 City College stampede that killed nine people.
Janice is calling it all lies. She says she raised Sean with love and hard work as a single mother. She says Patterson's claims are "salacious" and designed to promote the documentary. She says Burrowes has been trying to steal Bad Boy Records for thirty years and this is just his latest play.
But here's what she doesn't address: There's footage of Janice herself joking about giving Sean "a lot of beatings" on national television. And Burrowes kept handwritten journals from his time inside Bad Boy.
Today we break down the allegations, the evidence, the rebuttals, and the credibility problems on both sides — including the fact that this documentary was executive produced by 50 Cent, Diddy's longtime rival.
Sean Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. Janice Combs denies all allegations. All parties are entitled to the presumption of innocence on unproven claims.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.4 | All right, before we get into this, the allegations in this come from Netflix documentary, Sean Combs, The Reckoning, and the people interviewed in it. |
| 0:16.2 | Sean Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. |
| 0:20.7 | He was acquitted on the racketeering and sex trafficking charges. |
| 0:24.2 | Janice Combs, his mom, denies everything said about her in the documentary. |
| 0:29.6 | Kirk Burroughs, one of the accusers featured, has active litigation pending against the Combs family. |
| 0:36.6 | Everyone discussed is entitled to the presumption of |
| 0:39.1 | innocence on any unproven allegations. All right, let's get into it. And let me know your |
| 0:44.9 | thoughts in the comment section on YouTube. As we go through this and while you're at it, |
| 0:49.1 | please press subscribe so you don't miss our commentary and our coverage of this and the many cases |
| 0:55.3 | that we cover for you here. So here's the question nobody really wants to ask out loud. |
| 1:00.4 | Did Sean Cohen's become capable of what he was convicted of on his own? Or was he |
| 1:09.5 | kind of shaped, molded into it, if you will. |
| 1:14.2 | Nature versus nurture, a little combination of both. |
| 1:16.7 | That's usually what everybody is, because that's what Netflix is really asking with this documentary. |
| 1:21.8 | This isn't just a recap of the trial. |
| 1:24.0 | This isn't just a, here's the rise and full of ditty packaged in four episodes for |
| 1:29.2 | your streaming pleasure. This film is making an argument, and the argument is that the behavior |
| 1:35.1 | Sean Combs exhibited as an adult, the control, the coercion, the manipulation, and the things. |
| 1:42.2 | Prosecutors called freak-offs, |
| 1:44.7 | that none of it came out of nowhere, |
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