Usher spoke out about his tweets mysteriously disappearing after his friend and former mentor, Sean “Diddy” Combs, was arrested on sex-trafficking charges.
Over the weekend, almost all posts, media and replies on the “Yeah!” singer’s X account (formerly Twitter) were seemingly wiped, which caught fans’ attention.
But Usher, 45, claimed Sunday his account was “hacked.”
“Account got hacked and damn y’all ran with it!” he wrote in a tweet.
“See you tonight at Intuit Dome,” he added, referring to his sold-out show in Inglewood, Calif. on his Past, Present, Future tour.
As of Monday morning, seemingly all posts on Usher’s X account are visible again.
Combs, 54, discovered Usher and helped make the “My Boo” singer a huge star. They even lived together in New York in the ’90s when Usher was a teenager.
Usher has yet to address Combs’ recent arrest. The record executive was taken into custody in NY last week, with prosecutors alleging he participated in sex trafficking and “freak off” parties. He was denied bail and is on suicide watch in a jail in Brooklyn.
In a recent lawsuit filed by Dawn Richard from Danity Kane, Usher and Ne-Yo were accused of being witnesses to Combs’ physical abuse of his ex Cassie Ventura.
Ventura, who dated Combs on-and-off from 2007 to 2018, filed a civil suit against the music mogul last year, claiming he raped and abused her. Combs settled with Ventura one day later.
In May, a shocking surveillance video leaked and appeared to show Combs beating Ventura in the hallway of a hotel in 2016. Combs then apologized for his actions in a since-deleted Instagram video.
After Combs’ homes in LA and Miami were raided in March by federal agents investigating his alleged sex-trafficking operation, an interview resurfaced of Usher talking about his time living with Combs when he was 14.
Usher told Howard Stern in the 2016 interview that he saw “very curious things” happen at Combs’ NY mansion back in the day.
“It was pretty wild. It was crazy. There were very curious things taking place and I didn’t necessarily understand it,” Usher said.
He added: “I got a chance to see some things … I don’t know if I could indulge and even understand what I was looking at.”
Usher also referred to Combs as his “brother” in the interview.
Back in 2004, Usher told Rolling Stone that “there was always girls around” when he was living with Combs.
“You’d open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy,” he revealed. “You never knew what was going to happen.”
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