Yung Miami is getting candid about what it was like courting Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The rapper and former member of Metropolis Ladies, born Caresha Romeka Brownlee, is returning to her hit podcast Caresha Please on Revolt TV this week, opening up about her experiences over the previous couple of months amid Diddy’s mountain of controversies and authorized points. Forward of the Season 2 premiere, she advised ipromiseyoumedia solely about all of it.
“It isn’t straightforward,” she says about lastly breaking her silence. “It is a rollercoaster of feelings.”
Yung Miami was courting the defamed rapper-mogul and Revolt founder and former chairman, 54, previous to the Could 19 launch of 2016 surveillance footage exhibiting him bodily assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie. In latest months he’s been hit with a number of civil lawsuits and his house was raided again in March amid an ongoing federal legal investigation.
The rapper, who amicably break up from Diddy following his barrage of authorized points coming to mild final November, says she was “deeply damage and shocked after watching the video,” of her ex and Cassie. “That was not my expertise in any respect,” she says.
In a since-deleted publish to his social media account, Combs admitted to being “disgusted” by his actions in direction of Cassie, stating, “It’s so troublesome to mirror on the darkest instances in your life, however typically you bought to try this.”
He added, “I used to be f—ed up. I imply, I hit all-time low. However I make no excuses. My habits on that video is inexcusable…I take full accountability for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I used to be disgusted then after I did it, I’m disgusted now.”
Yung Miami admits that previously, she too has suffered abuse by the hands of a romantic accomplice.
“I have been in a poisonous relationship earlier than after I was youthful,” she says. “In highschool, my early 20s, and so they’re not wholesome. They don’t seem to be enjoyable. It is simply I have been there, achieved that, and that is someplace I’d by no means wish to put myself.”
She continues, “Now, being 30 with two children, that is one thing I do not condone or tolerate, one thing that I grew from. That is why I say that wasn’t my expertise with him, as a result of I would not even put up with that [again].” She provides that she needs to be a great instance “of a mom and a girl for my daughter.”
As for what did happen in her extremely publicized relationship with Diddy, Yung Miami explains, “I met him in his Love period,” noting one other of the mogul’s many monikers. “He was centered on constructing love, and actually locked in on his music and enterprise. I used to be with him when the world was celebrating him.”
When it comes to attraction, “I simply assume that after I met Diddy he was only a man first. He was extra into what I needed to do, and he approached me with loads of enterprise [ideas]. ‘It is best to do that. I see this in you.’ So it was extra of that for me. He noticed extra in me than music.”
One such enterprise was Caresha Please, which Diddy inspired her to do and located a house for at Revolt TV, which he based and was chairman of on the time. [Amid recent allegations and legal issues, Combs stepped down as chairman and no longer has ties to the media organization.]
The 2 took their romance public on the primary episode of the present, with Yung Miami interviewing her then-boyfriend and confirming the rumors that they “go collectively.”
Again then, “it was simply laughs, giggles and persona,” she remembers. That every one modified amid the information of quite a few allegations in opposition to him, however as for what particularly triggered their break up, she says “typically a relationship runs its course. Individuals breakup on daily basis, and with all the pieces that occurred, I simply wanted time alone.”
And he or she’s had time to mirror again on her personal actions in latest months. When one other lady, Gina Huynh, who has shared her personal Diddy abuse allegations, spoke out about Yung Miami’s relationship, the rapper took to social media with insults and a racial slur aimed toward Huynh. It is a transfer she now regrets making.
“I am conscious of the issues I tweeted in direction of one other lady that, now trying again, I do know I should not have given any vitality to,” she says. “Everybody solely noticed how I responded after I was repeatedly examined. I am working to verify I do not let folks take me out of my character, irrespective of how onerous it is perhaps.”
She provides, “I do not ever wish to disrespect a whole group of individuals as a result of one particular person is pushing to get a response out of me. It isn’t proper, however I’m a piece in progress and always doing the work to develop into a greater model of Caresha.”
It is work she hopes followers will see within the new season of her present.
“This entire factor has damaged me and impacted me in such a method, and it was sort of a darkish time for me,” she says. “So I simply wish to keep constructive and give attention to myself and what’s necessary to me proper now. I all the time inform myself, ‘keep sturdy, keep constant. You might be lovely. You might be worthy.’ In life you all the time face challenges. However if you fall prefer it, you decide up, you journey once more.”
Representatives for Combs didn’t instantly reply to ipromiseyoumedia’s request for remark.
Season 2 of Caresha Please premiered on Revolt’s app and YouTube channel on Thursday, Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. ET.
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