Netflix Slams Diddy’s Claims About ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’: ‘This Is Not a Hit Piece or an Act of Retribution’

Netflix came to the defense of its new docuseries “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” on Tuesday night after the film’s subject, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and his team attacked the project as a “shameful hit piece” that used “stolen footage that was never authorized for release.”

A Netflix spokesperson told Variety, “The claims being made about ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ are false. The project has no ties to any past conversations between Sean Combs and Netflix. The footage of Combs leading up to his indictment and arrest were legally obtained. This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson is an executive producer but does not have creative control. No one was paid to participate.”

Netflix’s statement comes on the heels of a quote from “The Reckoning” director, Alexandria Stapleton, who also asserted all footage was obtained legally with all the “necessary rights.”

“We moved heaven and earth to keep the filmmaker’s identity confidential,” she said. “One thing about Sean Combs is that he’s always filming himself, and it’s been an obsession throughout the decades. We also reached out to Sean Combs’ legal team for an interview and comment multiple times, but did not hear back.”

The statement from Combs’ rep, released Monday, alleged that Combs “has been amassing footage since he was 19 to tell his own story, in his own way,” but Netflix was spinning his words out of context. It also claimed that executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is “a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta who has spent too much time slandering Mr. Combs.”