Janice Smalls Combs, the mom of Sean “Diddy” Combs, has launched a press release in protection of her son as he faces gross fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and sexual abuse.

The rapper and businessman was taken into custody at a Manhattan resort on Monday, September 16 after having been indicted by a grand jury.

“I come to you right now as a mom that’s devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made towards my son, Sean Combs. It’s heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies,” Janice mentioned in a message shared by her lawyer Natlie G. Figgers.

She continued:

“To bear witness [sic] what appears to be like a public lynching of my son earlier than he has had the chance to show his innocence is a ache too insufferable to place into phrases.

“Like each human being, my son deserves to have this present day in courtroom, to lastly share his facet, and to show his innocence.”

Diddy’s mother went on to clarify that she was “not right here to painting [her] son as excellent as a result of he’s not,” including: “He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have” and saying:

“My son could not have been completely truthful about sure issues, corresponding to denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the resort’s surveillance confirmed in any other case.”

Certainly, in Might, CNN obtained surveillance footage from 2016 that featured Diddy grabbing Cassie Ventura outdoors of an elevator… tossing her to the bottom… and kicking her quite a few occasions.

“It’s so troublesome to mirror on the darkest occasions in your life,” Combs mentioned in response again then, including through Instagram:

“Generally you gotta do this. I used to be f-cked up. I imply I hit all-time low however I make no excuses. My habits on that video is inexcusable.

“I take full duty for my actions in that video.”

As a part of the indictment towards Diddy, in the meantime, authorities say the mogul organized “Freak Offs,” or “elaborate intercourse performances” throughout which ladies have been compelled via “pressure, threats of pressure, and coercion, to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male business intercourse employees.”

In keeping with this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s houses earlier this 12 months have been 1,000 bottles of child oil.

Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and infrequently “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting business intercourse employees “throughout state strains and internationally.”

Simply completely gross and horrible in each manner.

Again to Janice, who went on as follows:

“Generally, the reality and a lie change into so intently intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is outdoors the norm or is just too difficult to be believed.

“This is the reason I consider my son’s civil authorized staff opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as an alternative of contesting it till the top, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this resolution towards my son by deciphering it as an request for forgiveness.

“Not being completely easy about one situation doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave fees leveled towards him.

“Many people who have been wrongfully convicted and later exonerated had their freedom taken from them not as a result of they have been responsible of the crimes they have been accused of, however as a result of they didn’t match the picture of what this society considers to be a ‘good particular person.’”

And he or she concluded:

“Watching the world make jokes and chuckle at my son’s life crumbling earlier than our eyes is one thing I can always remember. It’s actually agonizing to look at the world flip towards my son so shortly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his facet or affording him the chance to current his facet.

“These lies thrown at him are motivated by these searching for a monetary achieve, and never justice. These people noticed how shortly my son’s civil authorized staff settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, so that they consider they will obtain a fast payday by falsely accusing my son.

“False allegations of sexual assault thwart true victims of sexual violence from getting the justice they deserve.”

Diddy has pleaded not responsible to the fees after he was denied bail twice. He was remanded to Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn till his trial.