Steve Harvey Warns Young Men To Not Become Like Diddy

By this point, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal and personal issues are public knowledge, and they’re still being discussed as he remains in prison. Various pundits with ties to the legal profession have weighed in on Combs’ situation, though only a handful of high-profile celebrities have spoken in depth about it. Now, Steve Harvey is sharing his two cents on Diddy and the drama that’s surrounded him in recent years. Also, Harvey has advice for anyone who might want to follow in the rapper’s footsteps.

via: Complex

During a recent interview on the One on One with Kris Fade podcast, the comedian and media personality explained how a man's character, especially in how he treats women, will determine his future.

"He's in prison right now," Harvey said of Diddy near the 43-minute mark in the video linked here. "He was old enough to really get it together, but he didn't."

He continued: "You have to practice acts of kindness. You've got to be a gentleman through it all. Look, man, dude's going to have more than one chick. Okay, cool. I got that right there. But you don't have to be abusive with it and abrasive with it."

While noting that Diddy was "getting away with a lot," Harvey shared his reaction to the video of Diddy dragging and kicking Cassie Ventura in a disturbing 2016 surveillance video.

"When that video came out … you sitting going, 'Wait a minute. Hold on, man. What you doing?' Bro, for you to be a public figure, wrap a towel around yourself, and run down a public hallway, not knowing who's at that elevator … and that's your reaction to this girl?" he said.

Harvey continued: "So now that's what we caught on tape. That's the one that's on tape. That's the one that's out in the public in front of the elevator. My goodness, what's been going on when you ain't in front of the elevator? Now you know it's got to have been magnified back there. So now you're just not a good person. You can't run it like that cuz now you got to pay. And the thing about sin is: sin cost you more than you want to pay and make you stay longer than you want to stay. And that's what he in now."

Diddy is currently serving a 50 month sentence at a federal facility in New Jersey after being found guilty on multiple counts of violating the Mann Act.

The disgraced mogul was sentenced for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, related to his now infamous "freak offs" or "hotel nights" — drug-fueled, hours or days-long sexual encounters involving a girlfriend and male escorts that Diddy would arrange, orchestrate, pay for, and often record.

Elsewhere in his Kris Fade interview, Harvey said some of his friends who are "old gangsters" said they thought Diddy was "trippin'" in reaction to the hotel video and even said they needed to "put some hands on him."

Harvey did not mention in the interview that his daughter, Lori Harvey, was rumored to have been romantically linked to Diddy. Despite their 27-year age difference, a source told E! News in 2019 that the former couple "had a fun fling" but that the mogul was "not ready to be in a long-term committed relationship."

When asked if he had ever "crossed paths" with Diddy, Harvey answered: "I knew him, but …It was some things that I had heard about that kept me away from [him]. I got invited. 'Hey man, we throwing a party.' 'Nah.' You don't see me nowhere. I don't go to the white party, the blue party, the pink party, the panty party. I ain't at nobody's party. Steve Harvey going home."