Usher has explained why all of his tweets were deleted after conspiracy theories linked him to Diddy‘s sex trafficking and racketeering case.
Over the weekend, eagle-eyed fans noticed that all of the singer’s posts on X (formerly Twitter) had been wiped, leading to unfounded speculation that the move was somehow related to Puffy’s recent arrest.
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After the commotion, Usher returned to the social media platform to set the record straight.
“Account got hacked and damn y’all ran with it! [laughing face] See you tonight at Intuit Dome,” he wrote on Sunday (September 22), plugging his Past Present Future Tour stop in Inglewood, California later that night.
Account got hacked and damn y’all ran with it! 😂😂😂 See you tonight at Intuit Dome ✌🏾👀✌🏾
— Usher Raymond IV (@Usher) September 22, 2024
Usher and Diddy have a relationship going back more than 30 years, with the Bad Boy boss taking the R&B legend under his wing in the 1990s when he was a teen.
The Confessions crooner revisited his “pretty wild” experience living and working with Diddy during a 2016 interview with Howard Stern, revealing he witnessed “curious things” while staying at what was dubbed “Flavor Camp.”
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“I moved to New York City and I lived with Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs for a year… in the ‘90s. Do you understand what that’s like?!” Usher said.
“I went there to see the lifestyle. And I saw it. But I don’t know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at. It was pretty wild. It was crazy. There were very curious things taking place and I didn’t necessarily understand it.”
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Stern concluded the portion of the interview by asking: “You’re a dad now. Would you ever send your kid to a Puffy camp?”
“Hell no,” Usher bluntly replied.
The singer was also roped into the civil proceedings against Diddy’s alleged sex crimes earlier this year when producer Lil Rod alluded to him in his sexual assault against the Harlem-born mogul.
In the complaint, Rod claimed that Diddy “informed him that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with” an unnamed rapper, an unnamed R&B singer and Bad Boy producer Stevie J.
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An appendix described the R&B singer as an artist who “performed at the Superbowl [sic] and had a successful Vegas residency,” while the rapper was “a Philadelphia rapper who dated Nicki Minaj,” a thinly-veiled reference to Meek Mill.
Usher has yet to address the salacious claims, but Meek quickly shot them down and described the allegations as “sick.”
