Nick Cannon defends Diddy ‘as a good friend’ whereas discussing challenges of Cassie lawsuit in resurfaced interview | USAEMALL.com

Nick Cannon shared his struggles with friendships in a latest episode of his “Counsel Culture” present.

Cannon, 43, was requested “What do you think about Diddy?” whereas chatting with Iyanla Vanzant in a phase that was recorded earlier than Sean Combs’ homes had been raided by the Homeland Securities Investigation staff as a part of a federal human trafficking investigation final month. 

“I find difficulty when I’m asked about people that I know about,” Cannon mentioned in a clip shared on his Instagram Tuesday. “It was either ‘The Breakfast Club’ or Angela Yee or something, and they asked me about Puff, and I answered it as honestly as I knew how to answer it.”

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Nick Cannon defended his friendship with Sean “Diddy” Combs following a lawsuit Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie filed and dismissed final yr. (Getty Images)

Cannon added, “I know these people. They’re not just public figures to me, so I have to almost do this dance about when it comes up, because just as much as I know Diddy, I know Cassie.”

The “Masked Singer” host was referring to the lawsuit Cassie filed in November the place she accused Combs of raping her in her own residence, enduring “over a decade” of his “violent behavior and disturbed demands” along with allegedly forcing her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he watched and filmed. 

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Combs denied Cassie’s claims in an announcement supplied to Fox News Digital on the time.

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“Mr. Combs vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations. For the past six months, Mr. Combs has been subjected to Ms. Ventura’s persistent demand of $30 million, under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail,” his lawyer mentioned. “Despite withdrawing her initial threat, Ms. Ventura has now resorted to filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies, aiming to tarnish Mr. Combs’s reputation and seeking a payday.”

One day after she filed the declare, Combs and Cassie, legally generally known as Casandra Ventura, got here to an amicable decision, and she or he dropped the lawsuit. “I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms that I have some level of control. I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for their unwavering support,” Cassie wrote. Combs mentioned in his personal assertion that the choice was agreed upon by each events, and he had no ailing will towards the singer.

Cassie claimed she endured greater than a decade of abuse by the hands of Sean “Diddy” Combs. (Getty Images)

In the podcast, which was recorded in February, Cannon said, “I think what they brought up is like, I saw that, I kind of said, ‘I’m praying for Cassie.’ Trying to find the high frequency and knowing the story, knowing the right thing to talk about. I was like, ‘This is someone who was hurt, who was victimized.’

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“But then when this query goes just a little bit additional, like, so what about Puff? I do not know easy methods to really feel about that. When I used to be going by way of my stuff, somebody that referred to as, checked on me, stood by me, stood up for me, and I used to be like, what do I owe?”

Vanzant asked, “But what does that imply? Stood by you? Stood up for you?”

Cannon clarified, “Well when nobody else would shield me.”

Diddy’s friendship with Nick Cannon began nearly two decades ago. (Getty Images)

In July 2020, Cannon was fired by ViacomCBS after a decades-long working relationship for spreading “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” and “hateful speech” made on an episode of his YouTube podcast “Cannon’s Class.” 

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Days later, he responded on Facebook saying that he does not condone hate speech “nor the unfold of hateful rhetoric. We reside in a time when it’s extra necessary than ever to advertise unity and understanding.”

Diddy almost immediately fired back and offered Cannon a job at his Revolt TV company. 

“We received your again and love you and what you may have finished for the tradition,” Diddy tweeted at the time. “We are for our individuals first!!! For us! By US! Let’s go!!!”

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided last month as part of a human trafficking investigation. (Jordan Strauss)

Representatives for Nick Cannon did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Vanzant circled back with Cannon, “Whether it is Puffy or whoever, you wish to be their brother first, not their PR agent.” 

“But as a good friend, as a brother, I wish to defend,” Cannon said, to which Vanzant added, “But that is not your job.”

“That’s not my job,” he said. “So your recommendation to me is usually you simply say, I reserve remark. So that goes again to what that is all about — therapeutic within the public eye as our brotherhood, he should not be within the public.”