Wendy Williams Says ‘It’s About Time’ Diddy Goes to Prison for Life

Wendy Williams addressed Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mounting legal troubles during the shocking claims she made in a rare interview Thursday on The Breakfast Club.

Host Charlamagne tha God brought up Williams’ departure from Hot 97 in 1998, saying toward the end of the interview that she’d been fired “because of Diddy.” He asked her for her thoughts on the music mogul’s current situation, to which Williams answered: “Diddy will go to prison for life, people.”

“You don’t know things I knew about Diddy back in the day,” Williams continued. “And you want to know what? It’s about time, people, it is about time. Diddy done.”

Williams did not elaborate on what she supposedly knew. A lawyer for Combs did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking charges following his arrest in September. He is currently jailed while awaiting trial, which is scheduled to begin May 5. In addition to his criminal charges, Combs has been hit with dozens of lawsuits alleging more wrongdoing including sexual assaults—with a new filing this week accusing him of drugging and raping a 16-year-old in 2000.

Combs’ lawyers denied the allegations, adding in a statement to Rolling Stone that no amount of lawsuits against their client will “change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted, or sex trafficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minor.”

Williams wrote in her 2004 book The Wendy Williams Experience that Combs “single-handedly tried to ruin me, tried to ruin my career” in the late 1990s. The following year, she told New York it was her “belief” that Combs had a hand in her downfall at Hot 97, with the magazine noting that he had been one of several rappers that Williams had insinuated was gay.

Following Combs’ arrest, Williams told the Daily Mail in November that multiple people told her she’d “called it.” She also described the 2016 security camera footage of Combs beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura as “horrific.”

“But now you have to think, how many more times?” Williams said. “How many people? How many more women? It’s just so horrible.”

Williams’ TV show was taken off air in 2022 amid her lengthy health-related absences from hosting duties. That year, she was placed in a guardianship and was subsequently diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

She became emotional in her Breakfast Club interview Thursday as she spoke out against the guardianship, saying that she felt like she is “in prison” and insisting that she is “not cognitively impaired.”