numerous Making the band Graduates have Moving forward with the allegations on Sean “Diddy” Combs Over the years, including Danity Kane Dawn Richard and Aubrey O’Day. in The new documentary Diddy: Made a bad boyAnd the band Sarah Rivers She is the latest participant to share her story.

“Sometimes people stop and say, ‘We’re not ready to go there,’” the executive producer said Ari Mark He said exclusively Us Weekly From Rivers ahead of the film’s premiere on Tuesday, January 14. “These things are obviously very sensitive and difficult to share. And I think she felt brave enough at that point to come forward and share the story.”

In the documentary Rivers – who appeared Making the band 2 From 2002 to 2004 – She shared new claims about her time working with Diddy, 55, as part of the group Da Band.

She claimed: “When he got angry at one of my band members, he said, ‘You’re making me so angry that I want to eat your flesh.'” Then he said to one of my band members, ‘You’re rolling your eyes. I can go get a crazy person and pay them $20 to slap you.’ He says that? That’s crazy.”

Rivers, 47, also talked about the famous moment when Diddy asked Da Band to walk to Brooklyn from Manhattan to bring him a Junior’s cheesecake.

“We walked for eight hours over the Brooklyn Bridge,” Rivers claimed. “We walked from Manhattan to Brooklyn. So I do these things because I say, ‘I’m not going home. This is what I’ve been working for.'”

Later in the film, Rivers broke down when she remembered that she didn’t want to be around the rapper unless the cameras were there.

“He touched me [in] “A place he shouldn’t be,” she claimed. “It was inappropriate. I was scared, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what just happened?'” “It happened. It stopped, mentally.” [it’s] drain.”

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Mark said we He believes Rivers chose to speak publicly about the documentary because they felt there was “authenticity” to the project.

“He’s going to be seen, he’s not just going to be buried, and I think she realized that,” he said. we. “We hope this will be healing for her.”

While the film includes interviews with people who knew Diddy during his early years at Uptown Records, it also features conversations with people who knew him as a kid — people who knew him simply as Sean rather than Puff Daddy or Brother Love or anyone else. Various nicknames he used throughout his career.

“What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to present the facts and hopefully the audience can put those facts in the back of their heads while being open about this person’s backstory,” Mark explained. “And then, as you’re deconstructing this story, you don’t necessarily start to feel more empathy for this person, but you start to understand them in a more complex way and hopefully you walk away from the documentary and say, ‘Wow, how can we avoid that?’” Those kinds of Of the cases? How do we live in a world where people like this are not created this way?

Diddy was not involved in the film, but his lawyers issued a statement to the producers that said: “Sean Combs categorically denies the baseless allegations being circulated in connection with this documentary. Regarding the legal issues referred to, Mr. Combs will not comment on pending litigation. “He will fight them in court, where facts will be distinguished from fiction.”

In a statement to weDiddy’s team added: “This documentary recycles and perpetuates the same lies and conspiracy theories that have been spewed against Mr. Combs for months. It is disappointing to see NBC and Peacock rolling in the same mire as unethical tabloid reporters. By providing a platform for liars… and opportunists who have been proven liars for making false criminal charges, the documentary is irresponsible journalism of the worst kind.

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pole He was in prison Since his arrest in September 2024 On charges of sex traffickingExtortion and transportation to engage in prostitution. He denied these accusations and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Mark hopes the film will inspire viewers to speak out about experiences they’ve had in their own lives.

“How can we give some sort of mouthpiece for victims so that people like them who have experienced these types of things can come forward in the future and not be afraid to do so?” Mark asked. This is probably the best thing we can do as filmmakers. I hope we don’t humanize him, but rather tell you Sean’s story instead of just Diddy’s story, because I think the two are inseparable.

Diddy: Made a bad boy Premieres on Peacock Tuesday, January 14.

With reporting by Leanne Aciz Stanton