Too $hort Apologizes After Backlash Over Plans To Attend Diddy Party

Too $hort is apologizing for saying he would attend Diddy’s welcome-home party, admitting he spoke before understanding the broader abuse allegations surrounding his friend.

The Oakland Hip-Hop veteran said people close to him flooded his phone after his comments on The TMZ Podcast circulated this week.

“I want to thank all the people that called me yesterday. Text me, hit me up about this TMZ Puff Daddy thing. I was a little insensitive with my words.”

Too $hort said he knew about the video showing Diddy attacking Cassie Ventura, but had not grasped how many women had accused the mogul of abuse.

“I said that I didn’t condone what he did to Cassie, but I would go to his party if he came home, and I really didn’t know the full extent of the case. I did not know that there were a lot of women who had claimed that they had been abused by Puff Daddy and how it affected them.”

His apology comes days after Too $hort told TMZ he would attend a party for Diddy after the Bad Boy founder leaves federal prison.

He now says the reaction pushed him to read more, listen harder and reconsider how his words sounded to people affected by abuse.

“I do not condone abuse in any kind of way-not emotional, not physical, not sexual, and I don’t support anybody that does it. I want to say I’m sorry to the people that were hurt by the words that I said.”

Too $hort said becoming better informed changed his perspective, especially when he thought about his daughter and the women throughout his family.

“I have listened, I have learned, I read up on it. I am more informed, and I’m telling you now that I have a daughter. To my daughter, to my daughter’s mother, to my mother, rest in peace, to my stepmother, to my cousins, nieces, aunties, all of them, all of the women in my life, all the women in general. This is not a black thing. This is all women across the board.”

Too $hort also clarified what he meant when he said he would attend another Diddy party after prison.

He said he meant the large social events he personally attended, not the sexual encounters and “freak-offs” described during Diddy’s federal trial.

“When I say I’m gonna go to his party, I was talking about the parties that he throws for his friends, not any party where it is fucking baby oil or some goddamn sexual shit. I’ve been to dozens of his parties, and never once have I seen a naked person or a sexual act.”

He rejected the idea that every gathering Diddy hosted was sexual, saying the parties he attended were ordinary celebrity social events.

“Everybody wants to get in. But now everybody’s saying that every party he threw was a sex party. It was not like that ever, ever, ever. I never seen no shit like that.”

The apology marks a major shift from Too $hort’s original defense of their friendship, when he separated Diddy’s private sex life from the Cassie assault.

Diddy, born Sean Combs, is serving 50 months at FCI Fort Dix after a jury convicted him on two transportation-for-prostitution counts in July 2025.

Federal prosecutors confirmed jurors convicted him on those two counts while acquitting him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.

Testimony during the trial described violence, coercion and paid sexual encounters involving former girlfriends, although the jury rejected the government’s most serious criminal charges.

The hotel footage showing Diddy kicking, dragging and striking Ventura became a central piece of evidence, and Diddy later apologized publicly for the assault.

Too $hort’s original remarks separated that violence from Diddy’s sexual behavior because he said his own experiences never exposed him to sexual activity.

His new statement draws a harder line around abuse while still referring to Diddy as his brother and hoping prison changes him.

“I hope that when my brother comes home, that he has grown because just in a short period of time of me dealing with this, I feel like I’ve grown a lot. I’ve learned a lot, and I hope that when he comes home, that he’s not an abuser anymore.”

Too $hort also said his apology extends beyond women because men can be victims of abuse and can also be hurt by careless language.

“If anything I said hurt anybody, I really do regret it, and I hope that you understand.”

Meanwhile, Diddy is back in the Special Housing Unit at Fort Dix while officials investigate allegations concerning his treatment and conduct inside prison.

A recent report alleged access to contraband phones, alcohol, massages, special meals and inmates performing chores, allegations Diddy’s representatives have disputed.

His representative has maintained Diddy is serving his sentence under prison rules while waiting for a decision in his federal criminal appeal.

Too $hort ended by apologizing once more to everyone who took offense, saying, “So once again, apologies to all the people, male, female, who were offended by my words.”

Federal prison records currently list January 21, 2028, as Diddy’s projected release date after repeated adjustments to his sentence calculation.