Mayor Adams on Wednesday night stunningly confessed his “heart goes out” to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is in federal custody on sex trafficking charges.
In an interview with Steven A. Smith on his YouTube show, Adams was sympathetic about the fallen star’s legal woes.
“Listen, my heart goes out to him as he goes through his legal struggles,” the mayor said — triggering a question from a seemingly befuddled Smith, who interjected: “If he’s innocent?”
“Exactly,” Adams replied. “There by the grace of god goes I. We’re all going through something, so my heart goes out to him.”
Adams also defended giving Diddy the Key to the City.
“People looked at his contribution, what he has done and others that we honored, we knew that we should give him that award,” the mayor explained, adding later the decision to take back Diddy’s key was made by a “committee.”
“They made the determination,” Adams said before adding: “His team, they were cool, they said, ‘Listen, we understand what’s going, we respect that.’ They didn’t give any pushback. This is the big boys, big girls club, we all know that you have to deal with the issues that are in front of us.”
The Bad Boy Records founder has been charged with sex trafficking and racketeering in Manhattan Federal Court. He is being held at a prison in Brooklyn ahead of his trial scheduled to start in May.
In the 14-page indictment, Combs is accused of transporting male sex workers and women across state lines to participate in the hedonistic parties he and his colleagues dubbed “Freak Offs.”
