Usher spoke out about his tweets mysteriously disappearing after his buddy and former mentor, Sean “Diddy” Combs, was arrested on sex-trafficking costs.
Over the weekend, virtually 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 acquired 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 deal with Combs’ latest arrest. The file 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 at some point later.
In Might, a surprising surveillance video leaked and appeared to point out 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 dwelling with Combs when he was 14.
Usher advised 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 acquired an opportunity to see some issues … I don’t know if I might indulge and even perceive what I used to be taking a look at.”
Usher additionally referred to Combs as his “brother” within the interview.
Again in 2004, Usher advised Rolling Stone that “there was at all times women round” when he was dwelling with Combs.
“You’d open a door and see any individual 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.”