Janice Combs Hits Back at Netflix’s Diddy Doc: “Lies” and “Fake Narratives”
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, has issued a fierce statement attacking the new Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, accusing it of spreading “lies” and “inaccuracies” about her son and their family. In a statement first shared with Deadline and reported by People, Janice says the four-part series intentionally misleads viewers and damages their reputation.
Her angriest criticism is aimed at an interview with former Bad Boy executive Kirk Burrowes, who claims he saw Diddy slap his mother after the 1991 tragedy at a charity basketball game at City College of New York, where nine people died in a crowd crush. Janice flatly denies the allegation, calling it “patently false” and accusing Burrowes of exploiting a horrific event in order to revive old grievances and “gain what was never his — Bad Boy Records.”
Janice demands that the “distortions, falsehoods and misleading statements” be publicly retracted. Her pushback lands against a wider backdrop of legal and reputational crisis for Combs. As People notes, he is currently serving a 50-month federal prison sentence on prostitution-related charges and faces dozens of civil lawsuits, many involving allegations of sexual assault and abuse. His spokesperson has already labelled the Netflix series a “shameful hit piece,” and accused the streamer of using unauthorised footage.
For viewers, Janice’s statement underlines the stakes of the documentary: it isn’t just a true-crime binge, but an ongoing battle over who controls the story of one of hip-hop’s most powerful – and now most disgraced – figures. Her intervention also highlights a generational split, with family members publicly challenging a project executive-produced by long-time rival Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
