Sean Combs’ mom, Janice Combs, is pushing again towards claims made within the Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, calling the collection “deliberately deceptive” and “offensive.”
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In a press release supplied solely to Deadline (Dec. 6), Janice mentioned this system comprises “falsehoods” about her relationship together with her son and his upbringing.
“I’m penning this assertion to appropriate among the lies introduced within the Netflix Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” she mentioned. “These inaccuracies relating to my son Sean’s upbringing and household life [are] deliberately performed to mislead viewers and additional hurt our popularity.”
Among the many claims disputed by Janice is a second within the docuseries the place former Unhealthy Boy Information government Kirk Burrowes alleges that Sean Combs slapped his mom after the tragic Metropolis School occasion in 1991 — an incident that resulted in 9 deaths. Janice calls that allegation “patently false” and “outrageous.”
“That was a really unhappy day for all of us,” she mentioned. “For [Burrowes] to make use of this tragedy and incorporate faux narratives to additional his prior failed and present try to achieve what was by no means his — Unhealthy Boy Information — is unsuitable.”
Janice Combs additionally addressed the portrayal of her parenting within the collection, denying accusations of abuse. “Within the documentary, I’m portrayed as an abusive father or mother. That is unfaithful,” she wrote. “I raised Sean with love and laborious work, not abuse… Sean has at all times been an industrious, goal-oriented, overachiever.”
Sean Combs: The Reckoning premiered Dec. 2 on Netflix and was government produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
The four-part docuseries chronicles the rise and downfall of the music mogul, who was sentenced in October to 4 years in jail after being discovered responsible on two fees associated to transportation for prostitution. Combs, 56, is at present incarcerated at Fort Dix FCI in New Jersey.
Netflix has defended the manufacturing, telling Deadline earlier this week: “This isn’t successful piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson is an government producer however doesn’t have artistic management. Nobody was paid to take part.”
Janice Combs concluded her assertion with a requirement for accountability: “I’m requesting that these distortions, falsehoods, and deceptive statements be publicly retracted.”
