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Music magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly got former broadcaster and writer Wendy Williams “fired” as the host of the Hot 97 radio station in New York City in 1998 for reportedly calling him “gay,” as per Charlamagne Tha God.
The radio show host and comedian appeared on the Flagrant podcast on May 29 and made the claim. The podcaster Andrew Schulz mentioned how he heard rumors about Diddy’s sexuality back then, to which The Breakfast Club co-host replied:
“That’s ‘cause of Wendy Williams. That was Wendy. Wendy’s whole thing was ‘Diddy was gay’ since the 90s… That’s why Wendy got fired from Hot 97. Wendy got fired from Hot 97 by Diddy. ‘Cause that’s when Bad Boy was smoking hot, and yeah, she got fired for putting that out there.”
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When Schultz suggested that it was a “perfect smokescreen” as it’s better to let “people think you’re gay than beat women,” Charlamagne Tha God weighed in, claiming that at this point nobody could be sure about “what Diddy is” despite “bits and pieces” about his personality and alleged misconduct coming out in recent months.
He further mentioned that the current situation was far more complicated than previously thought, adding, “This sh*t might be deeper than rap... You might be like, ‘Oh sh*t!’”
Exploring Wendy Williams and Diddy’s rollercoaster relationship over the years
Wendy Williams was a host on WQHT, and in April 1997, she leaked a fabricated NSFW image of Diddy with another man. Initially, the channel suspended her for the same, however, after repeated protests, she was fired. Later, she continued questioning the rapper’s sexuality during her time at Hot 97 and got terminated from there as well.
Back then, the R&B girl group Total, which was signed to the Bad Boy Records label, also called for her exit, following which Wendy called them “broken h*es.” In 2009, during an episode of her radio show The Wendy Williams Experience, she claimed that members of Total allegedly “jumped” her.
Later, in 2019, during her eponymous talk show, she doubled down on her past claims and insinuated that Diddy was involved in it.
“Once upon a time, there was a music mogul who sent his all-girl group to beat my a*s in front of the radio station. Fact! I finished my shift, round up my headphones, put my bag [on] my arm and I see everybody lined up at the window looking down on the sidewalk,” Wendy alleged.
She further continued by claiming that her former husband, Kevin Hunter, could vouch for the same.
“I find this girl group, jump out of a gypsy cab, to come after me. To beat my a*s! For what? You know what I said was true. You all were broke and you were living in the projects, and that was that,” Williams added.
During her 2013 interview with Vlad TV, the former media personality claimed she was “burned at the stake” for spilling truths back in the day and how life was coming to a “full circle,” amid Diddy’s ensuing legal troubles.
In 2015, Wendy Williams also took a dig at Diddy on her show about his constant name changes during his career.
“I don’t like when people change their names in the middle of our relationship. Like don’t tell [to] me call you Diddy, I know you as Puffy, that’s it,” she quipped.
Around the same time, she also hinted that Combs and Cassie shared an unbalanced relationship and hence split ways briefly in 2015. She called him “paranoid” and claimed that he had so much power and money that he could easily find his ex and compel her to get back with him.
In 2018, when they finally broke up, Wendy Williams claimed that Combs was trying to manipulate Cassie by professing his love on social media and did not want to be back, adding, “If you really cared, you’d reach out privately, not publicly.”
She alleged that Diddy was a “playboy” and had relations with multiple women who were “hypnotized” by him, and she tagged him as the type who would never settle down, not even when he was old.
Notably, Williams and Combs briefly buried the hatchet when he appeared as a guest on The Wendy Williams Show in 2017. While he lauded her for being one of the first successful female hip-hop journalists, she called it a “full circle moment.”
A couple of years later, on the Sway’s Universe radio show, she reminisced about their interaction and declared Diddy a “Bad Boy for life” who wasn’t “going anywhere.”
In her 2004 book The Wendy Williams Experience, she claimed to have “a certain level of contempt for Puff” as he “single-handedly tried to ruin me,” but added that she didn’t “hate him” despite the “hell he put me through.”
Notably, Charlamagne Tha God is not the first person to claim that Diddy got Wendy Williams fired from Hot 97. Earlier, during a 2022 interview with The Art of Dialogue, Combs’ former bodyguard Gene Deal alleged that to stop Wendy from leaking a private photo, his boss got her fired by threatening the radio station with a “boycott” if they didn’t get rid of her.
In the same interview, Kirk Burrowes, the former Bad Boy Records President, claimed that the photo in concern was that of Combs’ infant son Justin and his baby mother, Mysa Hylton, who was reportedly paid to get clicked with Combs’ rival and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight.
