Usher has spoken out after his Twitter/X account was briefly wiped following Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ arrest.
Diddy was arrested in New York final Monday (September 16) and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transporting for prostitution. It adopted a string of sexual misconduct allegations filed towards him over the previous yr.
He has since been denied bail, with the most recent studies claiming that he had been positioned on suicide watch as he awaits trial.
Yesterday (September 22), Usher took to his X account to say it had briefly been hacked after it had briefly been deleted.
Account received hacked and rattling y’all ran with it! 😂😂😂 See you tonight at Intuit Dome ✌🏾👀✌🏾
— Usher Raymond IV (@Usher) September 22, 2024
He wrote: “Account received hacked and rattling y’all ran with it! See you tonight at Intuit Dome.”
It led to scepticism from many customers within the feedback part, who claimed that the timing was too coincidental after Diddy’s arrest.
“What?? Lol, timing is JUST a coincidence huh?” whereas one other added: “Ain’t no one believing this.”
One consumer additionally added: “Somebody hacked you and deleted outdated tweets? Thats a brand new one.”
What?? Lol, timing is JUST a coincidence huh?
— 🟥 Donald Hensley (@The_realdonnie) September 22, 2024
ain’t NOBODY believing this
— WhosBreezy (@WhosBreezyUK) September 23, 2024
Somebody hacked you and deleted outdated tweets? Thats a brand new one 🤣🤣🤣
— LUPASAN (@LUPASAN2) September 23, 2024
Usher has not been accused immediately of any legal conduct within the allegations towards Diddy.
Diddy’s authorized consultant Marc Agnifilo has asserted that he’s harmless, and mentioned that he’ll “struggle like hell” to free him on bail, TMZ has reported. NME have additionally not too long ago reached out to Diddy’s representatives for remark.
In the meantime, Usher‘s feedback about his experiences at Diddy’s residence in a resurfaced interview went viral earlier this yr, following information of Diddy’s properties being raided in a intercourse trafficking investigation.
Diddy found and developed Usher by way of his success within the 90s and 00s. Usher was additionally despatched to stay with Combs for a yr after he signed a document cope with LA Reid.
Throughout his time there, he advised Rolling Stone in 2004 that Combs launched him to “a very totally different set of shit – intercourse, particularly”. “Intercourse is so sizzling within the trade, man,” he continued, alleging that “there was all the time women round. You’d open a door and see any individual doing it, or a number of individuals in a room having an orgy. You by no means knew what was going to occur.”
He expanded on his “fairly wild” experiences in one other interview from 2016 on Howard Stern, the place he claimed he noticed “curious issues”. “Within the Nineties,” he mentioned, “do you perceive what that’s like?”
“I went there to see the approach to life,” he continued. “And I noticed it. However I don’t know if I might indulge and perceive what I used to be even taking a look at. It was fairly wild. It was loopy. There have been very curious issues going down and I didn’t essentially perceive it.”
When Stern requested Usher whether or not he would ship his personal baby to stay with Diddy, Usher replied: “Hell no”.
Elsewhere, LL Cool J and Taste Flav have been requested about their ideas on the arrest of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on the Black Music Motion Coalition gala in Los Angeles final week.