Will Smith Fires Back at Diddy Freak Off Rumors
“I ain’t been nowhere near that man, I ain’t did none of that stupid s--t,” Smith told his crowd during a show Thursday night.

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Will Smith wants the public to know, he “don’t have s--t to do with Puffy,” better known as Sean “Diddy” Combs, he said on stage during a show at The Observatory North Park in San Diego on Thursday.
“The world we’re in right now, it’s really hard for y’all to discern what’s real and what’s true,” he also says in the clip, gearing up to clear his name. “I been seeing y’all memes and stuff,” he adds, “Some of that stuff is funny,” but, “y’all can stop all of that bulls--t. I ain’t been nowhere near no damn freak off.”
“I do enough of my own s--t, don’t be puttin’ me in other people’s bulls--t,” he continued. “I ain’t been nowhere near that man, I ain’t did none of that stupid s--t, so, whenever y’all hear it, if somebody say that, it’s a damn lie,” he said before quipping, “I don’t even like baby oil.”
Combs is in prison awaiting trial on federal charges that he created and facilitated a sex trafficking enterprise. Evidence authorities uncovered at his Florida property included more than a thousand of bottles of baby oil prosecutors say he coerced his employees to keep stocked in preparation for forced orgies he called “freak offs.”
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In the slew of lawsuits against him alleging that he’d forcibly drugged, raped, and/or trafficked multiple men, women, and children, accusers have also leveled allegations against (mostly) anonymous celebrity accomplices. That, together with social media users picking apart Combs’ sexuality amid the allegations, has sparked numerous memes depicting Combs in sex acts with other male celebrities—including Smith.
Comedian Katt Williams stoked that flame when he alleged that some well known celebrities were closeted while discussing Diddy during his interview on Club Shay Shay.
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Smith, who rarely comments on internet rumors (and often opts instead to bare his and his wife Jada Pinkett’s personal life publicly in their own words) wants to make it known that he was never in Diddy’s mix.
“I haven’t said that publicly,” he also says in the video clip, “I usually don’t respond to dumba-- stuff because like, there’s so many things, people say so much stuff but, you know, that one, it was—your memes was doing too much. Y’all was having me mad.”
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