Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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On December 7, 2023, executive producer Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, announced that he was developing a Sean Combs docuseries and that proceeds from the project would go to victims of the sexual misconduct allegations against Combs. Before hiring Alexandra Stapleton to direct the series, Jackson had been working on the project for five months, looking for people close to Combs who were willing to "speak and tell the truth". Cassie Ventura, Combs's former partner, was invited to participate in the series, but declined. However, Jackson stated that he personally spoke with Ventura and her husband, Alex Fine, "to understand how things transpired" with Combs. Netflix announced production of the series on September 25, 2024, one week after Combs was arrested on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Jackson and Stapleton said: This is a story with significant human impact. It is a complex narrative spanning decades, not just the headlines or clips seen so far. We remain steadfast in our commitment to give a voice to the voiceless and to present authentic and nuanced perspectives. While the allegations are disturbing, we urge all to remember that Sean Combs' story is not the full story of hip-hop and its culture. We aim to ensure that individual actions do not overshadow the culture's broader contributions. The series features clips of Combs in the days before his 2024 arrest, prompting questions over how Jackson and Netflix acquired the personal footage. Stapleton stated, "It came to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Brooke Brigham, I'm the attorney. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Tess Brigham, I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.0 | And today we are going to be talking about the Netflix docuies, Sean Combs, The Reckoning. |
| 0:24.6 | And everyone is talking about this. It's the number one show on Netflix right now. |
| 0:31.5 | And it's a doozy of a docu-series. And, you know, I was, this is not at all what I expected. I was kind |
| 0:40.6 | of dreading watching it because it's like, oh, God, four hours and more about Diddy and |
| 0:46.0 | what is there left to say? And then there was a lot left to say. There was a lot left to say. And this is |
| 0:52.8 | very different. |
| 1:11.2 | This is, okay, so there's four parts to this, and there's a lot going on, you know, in the media about how this was filmed, who filmed it, why? |
| 1:15.2 | Because there are some footage in the documentary. |
| 1:16.4 | It's not a lot. |
| 1:25.1 | It's maybe a day or two and a total of maybe 30 minutes worth of footage where this is, |
| 1:33.0 | you know, four, five, six days prior to Sean Combs being arrested and indicted on federal charges. |
| 1:38.2 | And he was staying in a hotel in Manhattan. |
| 1:42.9 | And he went to Manhattan because his attorneys were trying to, he knew this was coming. |
| 1:51.2 | His attorneys were trying to negotiate a bail deal so that he could just go, get booked, |
| 1:56.6 | immediately be released on bail, not have to go into actual custody. |
| 2:03.1 | And so he was willing to put up his home in Miami, his home in Los Angeles, surrender his passports, his children's passports, everybody, his whole family's passports. |
| 2:10.1 | And so that's why he's talking on the phone with his lawyers. |
| 2:15.1 | It's like the first scene that we see. |
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