Model Daphne Joy has broken her silence about the leak of a video allegedly featuring her, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and another man.
Model Daphne Joy has broken her silence about the leak of a video allegedly featuring her, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and another man
Claiming she “never consented” to being filmed and describing the experience as “abuse”, the 39-year-old hit out over the controversy in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday (01.06.26), hours after a series of clips of X-rated tapes spread across social media, with fans insisting they were shot by Combs at his infamous ‘Freak Off’ sex parties.
Daphne – known for her modelling work and for sharing her 13-year-old son Sire with rapper Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson, 50 –said online: “Everybody plays the fool sometime, and I have been the biggest fool.”
In an apparent reference to Combs, she added: “I just wanted my man at the time to be happy and satisfied… I wanted to fulfill all his desires… even if that meant breaking my own boundaries. I deeply loved him … and I believed he loved me too.”
Daphne continued: “It’s still so painful for me to process the harsh reality and truth of that relationship, but as time passes and in my quiet moments, I realise that it was far from love.”
In the statement, Daphne alleged she had not agreed to the recording of the video allegedly showing Combs watching her get intimate with another man, and claimed she had later been subjected to threats.
She added she “never consented” to being filmed in the tape.
Daphne added: “I was blackmailed by the person in the video and was threatened that if I didn’t give him the lump sum of money that they would leak it on the web.”
She continued: “I almost gave in to this demand, and once I didn’t, this person eventually sold this tape to a giant media outlet.”
According to Daphne, she was later contacted by the media company involved.
She wrote: “Once the media company understood the tape they purchased was revenge porn and an extortion scheme, they backed off from broadcasting it.”
Daphne added: “I know they are probably reading this, and I want to say thank you for doing the right thing… even though years later… it’s come back to haunt me again.”
Describing the experience as traumatic, Daphne said revisiting the footage had been deeply upsetting.
She wrote: “I knew the inner turmoil and pressures I felt in those moments.”
Daphne added: “I was not and was never in my right mind throughout the entirety of that relationship.”
She continued: “Seeing myself so lost is excruciating. I just want to hold that girl in that room and get her out of there … and tell her that wasn’t love and she didn’t need to do this for love.”
In the closing section of her statement, Daphne said: “I wish so many things were different, but I can’t take back the hands of time.”
She added: “I can only continue to move forward and slowly learn to love and trust myself again.”
Following reports about the Freak Off tapes leak, 50 Cent commented on social media.
He wrote: “She’s not a victim, SIRE is.”
The alleged ‘Freak Off’ tapes have not been verified, and another of them is said to show Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura with another man.
Combs is currently serving a 50-month federal prison sentence after being convicted of transportation for prostitution.
