In 1997, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Notorious ‘Biggie’ Bigg attended a party together, where Biggie was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.
Diddy’s bodyguard, Gene Deal, was present that night and later shared that he was feeling bad about that evening and felt he needed to be there to protect the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ singer .
“I saw this kid lose his life – this kid died as I was getting him out of the car,” Deal said. vibe magazine,
“I wouldn’t put anyone in my place because I don’t think they can handle it. If I didn’t have God in my life, if I didn’t have people praying for me, I don’t know if I could have handled it.”
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He revealed that before leaving Andre Harrell’s house, Diddy told him he didn’t have to go. “I knew that night someone was going to die, someone was going to get shot. I did everything in my power to keep it from puffing, and it didn’t puff.
Big’s death still hurts Diddy’s bodyguard
“The people who were protecting Big didn’t do everything in their power to keep him from growing up big — and that hurts me, even though that wasn’t my theory,” he told Vibe. “Every time you hear his music, every time you see one of these murals on the wall, now they’ve got statues… It hurts until God takes me out of here Will remain.”
Diddy, who was nearby at the time of the shooting, rushed Biggie to the hospital. “Then the doctor comes and tells us the news,” Diddy explained. rolling stone in 1997. “I was on my knees praying the whole time. I was just stuck. I can not understand. He was moving very fast. I couldn’t believe it was real.”
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“However, it gets worse. I had Damian call Biggie’s mom,” Diddy said. “Then in the middle of telling him, Damien starts crying. So I had to tell him. I had to calm him down, try to get someone to come home.
Many people around the music mogul were concerned that he might be the killer’s next target, and urged him to leave Los Angeles. “And then I woke up, and everyone was panicking, telling me to get out of L.A. and I couldn’t even move,” Diddy recalled. “I was stuck.”
