Rapper Yung Miami is speaking out about why she remained silent about mounting sexual assault and abuse allegations against her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Yung Miami, one half of the rap duo City Girls, reflected on her relationship with the disgraced music and alcohol mogul, noting that she “met him at a different time” in her life.
“I met Diddy when the world was celebrating him and giving him flowers when he was alive,” the rapper (real name Caresha Brownlee) said in a new episode of her Revolt podcast “Caresha Please.”
Yung Miami, 30, and Combs, 54, first sparked romance rumors in 2021 but confirmed their relationship in June 2022. “When I was with him, he was just a guy,” Yung Miami said on Thursday's episode, adding that she helped Combs take his various business ventures, including his media company Revolt, “to the next level.”
“When he got me, he really saw something in me,” he told friend and “Material Gworl” rapper Saucy Santana.
In April 2023, Yung Miami said she and Combs had ended their relationship, but told The Cut that she and her ex-boyfriend remained good friends. Months later, several women leveled disturbing allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault against the Bad Boy Records founder. Among his accusers was his longtime girlfriend, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. Diddy denied the allegations detailed in Ventura's November 2023 lawsuit, which had been settled a day after it was filed.
Ventura's lawsuit was just the beginning of Combs' legal troubles. Earlier this year, Combs faced more lawsuits, including one from producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, and their homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by National security as part of a broad investigation into sex trafficking.
In May, CNN published a surveillance video from 2016 showing Combs violently attacking Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel, calling Combs' credibility into question. The video also sparked numerous reactions from people in Combs' inner circle, including Misa Hylton, the mother of the rapper's firstborn. Yung Miami did not comment.
“I can’t speak to something that wasn’t my experience, I can’t speak to something that I don’t know,” she said Thursday. “I can’t speak to these allegations because I wasn’t present at the time. I don’t know that person and that wasn’t my experience.”
She added that she felt like “everyone was trying to crucify me” for her relationship with Combs and that she needed to “take a break and focus on what's important” when the allegations surfaced.
“[I needed to] “Let him navigate and figure it out on his own because I can’t get involved in that,” the mother of two said.
The “CFWM” and “Don't Play With It” artist said she experienced violence in previous relationships and stated, “I don't tolerate domestic violence.”
