Usher spoke out about his tweets mysteriously disappearing after his good friend and former mentor, Sean “Diddy” Combs, was arrested on sex-trafficking expenses.
Over the weekend, nearly all posts, media and replies on the “Yeah!” singer’s X account (previously Twitter) had been seemingly wiped, which caught followers’ consideration.
However Usher, 45, claimed Sunday his account was “hacked.”
“Account obtained hacked and rattling y’all ran with it!” he wrote in a tweet.
“See you tonight at Intuit Dome,” he added, referring to his sold-out present in Inglewood, Calif. on his Previous, Current, Future tour.
As of Monday morning, seemingly all posts on Usher’s X account are seen once more.
Combs, 54, found Usher and helped make the “My Boo” singer an enormous star. They even lived collectively in New York within the ’90s when Usher was a teen.
Usher has but to handle Combs’ latest arrest. The report govt was taken into custody in NY final week, with prosecutors alleging he participated in intercourse trafficking and “freak off” events. He was denied bail and is on suicide watch in a jail in Brooklyn.
In a latest lawsuit filed by Daybreak Richard from Danity Kane, Usher and Ne-Yo had been accused of being witnesses to Combs’ bodily abuse of his ex Cassie Ventura.
Ventura, who dated Combs on-and-off from 2007 to 2018, filed a civil go well with towards the music mogul final 12 months, claiming he raped and abused her. Combs settled with Ventura someday later. In Could, a stunning surveillance video leaked and appeared to indicate Combs beating Ventura within the hallway of a resort in 2016. Combs then apologized for his actions in a since-deleted Instagram video.
After Combs’ houses in LA and Miami had been raided in March by federal brokers investigating his alleged sex-trafficking operation, an interview resurfaced of Usher speaking about his time residing with Combs when he was 14.
Usher instructed Howard Stern in the 2016 interview that he noticed “very curious issues” occur at Combs’ NY mansion again within the day.
“It was fairly wild. It was loopy. There have been very curious issues going down and I didn’t essentially perceive it,” Usher mentioned.
He added: “I obtained an opportunity to see some issues … I don’t know if I might indulge and even perceive what I used to be .”
Usher additionally referred to Combs as his “brother” within the interview.
Again in 2004, Usher instructed Rolling Stone that “there was at all times ladies round” when he was residing with Combs.
“You’d open a door and see anyone doing it, or a number of folks in a room having an orgy,” he revealed. “You by no means knew what was going to occur.”