Yung Miami, born Caresha Brownlee, is finally talking about the allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct against her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs. During Thursday’s episode of her podcast, Caresha Please, Brownlee told Saucy Santana that she’s been silent about the accusations lodged against Diddy in multiple lawsuits because she personally never had negative experiences with him.
“I can’t speak on something that wasn’t my experience, and I can’t speak on something that I don’t know,” she said, noting that although she’s a survivor of domestic violence, she “Can’t speak on these allegations because I wasn’t around at the time. I don’t know that person, and that wasn’t my experience.”
Brownlee and Diddy were first rumored to be dating in 2021, but they didn’t confirm their relationship until June 2022, when Diddy joined her on the first-ever episode of her podcast. In April 2023, Brownlee told the Cut that she and Combs were no longer dating but were still “good friends.”
In November, Combs’s ex Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a bombshell lawsuit against Combs, accusing him of sexually and physically abusing her throughout their relationship. Although Ventura and Diddy quickly settled, five similar suits have been filed against the disgraced mogul, and federal authorities have raided his home. Earlier this year, a leaked video of Combs beating Ventura in 2016 caused an uproar, seemingly leading him to take a step back from public life.
In one of the suits against him, Combs’s former videographer and producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleged that Brownlee transported the drug tuci across state lines for Combs. Jones also claimed that Brownlee was one of the women “paid a monthly fee to work as Mr. Combs’s sex workers.” Brownlee hasn’t commented on the suit but said she has never been a sex worker.
On her podcast, Brownlee said in the wake of the suits, “Nobody called to see how I was doing.” She added: “People feel like I was Diddy’s biggest cheerleader and I made him my brand, and I feel like Diddy was on brand for me. I met him when he was in another era. I met Diddy when the world was celebrating him and giving him his flowers when he was alive. He was getting the [MTV VMA] Global Icon Award, the [BET] Lifetime Achievement Award, the key to the city.” (Combs returned the key to New York City after Mayor Eric Adams rescinded it in June.)
Brownlee said she feels like fans, many of whom have criticized her for remaining silent for the past nine months, are “trying to crucify” her. “I was just celebrating when the world was celebrating him, so why am I being crucified, or why am I being separated?”
