 Phone ring is a unknown number. I don't answer unknown numbers. But you know, my wife looking at me like, yeah, yeah, yeah, who is that? Yeah, pick that up. Who would know about this? So I put it on speaker. Yeah, who would know if I picked it up? I say, who is this? It's Sean. I'm like, Sean. It's Puff. I'm like, oh, what's good? Talkin' low like that? Talkin' low. So I was like, hey, what's good? I said, what's cryin'? He said, we didn't see you tonight at the BET Awards. We didn't see you tonight. You checkin' in. He said, what you doin'? I was like, oh man, I'm at the crib. He said, oh yeah, we over here at the, he said, I'm over here at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I said, oh, for real? So who over there? Just me. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk. When I was did Stomp the Yard, it was number one, two weekends in a row and the second weekend, you know, I was like experiencing, you know, phone calls, you know, getting movie offers and all these things that's kind of happening. And one day my phone call, I got a phone call, unknown number, I answered it, and it was Ditty. And I was like, just fan, foreign boyed out, like what? He was like, man, I'm a big female. You kept that movie, boom, boom, boom. Hey, I heard you comin' to New York next week to do, you know, 106th Park. Hey, pull up at the Thundra store, you can get whatever you want. Like boom, you know, go out there, go up there and look fresh, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, did he's looking out for me, man? I never met him when I got to New York. I just went to the Thundra store and they was like opened up the gates for me. You know, I geared up, boom, boom, never met him when I was there for those couple days. Then that was January, February, because Stomp came out January 17, 2007. So February was All-Star in Vegas that year, 2007. Never forget it. So went to the All-Star game, it's crazy. And then my boys, my partners, they like, they were all with Diddy Tough, whatever, you know, the band for Bad Boy for a long time. They're like, hey man, Diddy said you can come to the Palms, he's having an after party, you know, he had the big one with the pool. Yeah, yeah, I've been in that one, I've been in that one. So, you know, I went up there, it was packed. I mean, it was in the lobby for lines, trying to get in, they was just, security asked security me through. And Diddy was just, you know, so this went on for about a year. Any parties he had, like I was, you know, I didn't know that there was other parties. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you wasn't at them parties. I wasn't at them parties. I was at the, you know, the big party. And then Diddy called me one day after I did Cadillac Records, he came to the premiere of Cadillac Records in New York, and he was like, man, you killed that. He said, I'm up for this movie or this show. It was a movie, Raisin' in the Sun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, I need an acting coach, man. So I'll put him with my acting coach. Okay. Since I was a kid. Yeah. And he, my acting coach, big shout out Josh Patan, wonderful, phenomenal acting coach. And he started working with him, you know, then Diddy was on a series for a little bit, and then he was working. So he was always looking out. So I think it was just now, looking back, it's like the groomage, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was, the BET Awards were happening in town. I didn't go because I was nominated. So I'm like, I'm not going, I'm not nominated. You know what I mean? I'm just sitting in my black eye at the crib. So about two, something 30 in the morning, two, 15, two, 30 morning. Phone ring is a unknown number. I don't answer unknown numbers. But you know, my wife looking at me like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, pick that up. Who would know about this? And put it on speaker. Yeah, I picked it up. I say, who was this? It's Sean. I'm like, Sean. It's Puff. I'm like, oh, what's good. Talking low like that? Talking low. So I was, so I was like, hey, what's good? I said, what's crying? He said, we didn't see, we didn't see you tonight at the BET Awards. You didn't see you tonight. He said. He checking in. He said, what you doing? I was like, oh man, I'm at the crib. He said, oh yeah, we over here at the, he said, I'm over here at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I said, oh, for real? So who over there? Just me. What? Come on, man. That man ain't said, you serious? He said, just me. So my wife, she's a, I'm over here on the suspect list. What the hell? I'm like, nah, I'm in bed, but I'm good. He's like, all right, all right. And just hung up. Did he ever give you a sign? Did you ever give him any sign? Any reason? No, no, no, no, no, no, whatsoever. So, so I'm like, man. And I, but now I got smoke in my house. So my wife was like, what's up? You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I don't know what this man just called me. And I don't know, I don't know what's going on. So anyway, so, you know, people when I posted that on IG, people was like, you know, the comments was like, but did you go? Yeah. You did, you did. They was like, did you go? You did leave it like it was. And I'm like, oh, I got to respond to this. But I was like, the only way people really listened is if you said, you know, they listen to Dave Chapelle. Dave Chapelle says some shit they know it's fake. I was like, hell no, I didn't go, it's crazy. It's ridiculous when I look like one of the grown man's hotel room in the middle of the night. It's ridiculous. Anything's possible with this man. Like Kelly Garnett went in the NBA championships. Anything's possible. All the way in those games with Pete Lili that night. Mm-mm, mm-mm, I could have changed everything. Damn man, so creepy. So you were not surprised when all of this came out and opened up? No, I wasn't because I have, you know, as I got further deeper into the game, you know, people talk. So I would hear stories, but I never saw nothing. Right. You know what I mean? So I can't be like. Yeah, because you didn't go to those other parties. Yeah, I didn't know there's after after parties. You didn't go to that hotel, that night you didn't go to that guy there. Yeah, that's the party. I put that party, I put that party. That's the party. I put that party. I put that party. So, like, have you seen him since that happened? No, we, I saw, I did, okay. So I did see some things one time. And I did not, I escaped. Well, it's not, that sounds dramatic, but I, but I was, you know, I thought, you know, I'm an arts kid. So let me give some content, context. You know, growing up in art school, you know, in high school, it was the first time I saw like men, like boys, like it was like we was in junior year, like going, going together, like holding hands in school and kissing and stuff. I was like, but I didn't want to judge them. They were talented. You know what I mean? There was this understanding and what is it called? You know, just not a judgment about it. So I was always been, you know, non-judgment about people's sexuality. But, you know, people that you've seen that you would not assume, you know, doing compromising things, you know what I'm saying? Booed up, you know, I'm gonna, you know, you my brother, I ain't gonna boo up with you, bro. You know what I'm saying? Because in public, you don't do this. We ain't ever gonna be sitting too close on the couch. No, no, no, no. If me and you just want to go catch a Marvel movie, nigga, we gotta have a seat in the middle. Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. We ain't not the same people, we ain't not the same people. We ain't arm with arm, bro. No popcorn with you. We're not sharing popcorn. We're gonna have to have a seat there, okay? Can we suspect, okay? So I'm seeing some things and I was like, man, and you know, so I used to drink a lot, a lot. Like I could drink a bottle of tequila by myself. And I had got invited to this meeting, but I hadn't drank all day. And so this is now it's night. It's like 11, 30, 12. It was only about 14, 15 people in there, but some people. And it was like, Columbus, what did you drink in Columbus? I'm like, I only drink one thing, tequila. And they were like, oh, get him, get him. Oh, we got the smoothest, smoothest tequila. So I was like, all right, let me get a shot. So I'm over here, like we chopping it up. I take my shot. I'm like, pretty smooth. So we chopping it up. Five minutes go by, seven minutes go by. Some wrong. Uh-uh. Something wrong. Something was in your drink. Something wrong. Cause I'm getting dizzy. I'm like, I'm trying to stay on one shot. So I'm like, I'm trying to stay focused. You know, but I'm hearing, but it was more, I'm like, oh, I'm like, I started getting a little sweaty. I was like, oh, something wrong. I got to find, I was like, I played it cool. Where's the restroom? Where's the bathroom? So I'm like, they like down and it's all in. It's like a big ass house in Atlanta. So I'm like, walking down the hallway, it looked like the Starship Enterprise. I go to the bathroom and I put my finger down my throat. Oh, cat back in. Oh, yeah. Cause you knew. And my manager was with me. So he kicked in the door, boom, short you. I was like, bro, I don't know where it's like something. He's like, the driver's still outside. Let's go. So we go out and they all met us in like the vestibule. And they're like, are you good? So I was like, just relax. I'm like, nah, I gotta, I just like, nah, I'm fine. I gotta be upset early in the morning. I'm getting that SUV, just get out of there. Yo. Right? So, now who was at this party? That was the night that being an alcoholic saved my life and my booty hole. Cause you knew how to get on out of there.