Terrence Howard Claims Diddy Tried to Get Intimate With Him

Terrence Howard made a shocking claim about Sean “Diddy” Combs in a new interview, saying the music mogul made repeated sexual advances towards him.

Diddy, who has denied an avalanche of sexual abuse allegations, is currently jailed awaiting trial on five federal counts, including sex trafficking, to which he has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors added two new charges on Friday.

Now Howard, 56, has alleged Diddy — who also goes by the moniker Puff Daddy — tried to lure him into a sexual encounter.

“Puffy invited me for weeks, asking me to come teach him how to — [he] wanted me to be his acting coach for a while,” the actor said on the Friday, April 4 installment of the “PBD Podcast.”

Howard claimed when he got there, acting was the last thing on Diddy’s mind.

“Go there and he’s sitting around just looking. I’m like, ‘Okay, what’s the material you wanna work on?’ He’s just looking at me,” the actor claimed.

Terrance Howard says that everybody who attended the Diddy’s parties lost their man card.

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Howard, who played a music exec and wrote songs for six seasons on Empire, and received an Oscar nomination for his role as a troubled rapper in the film Hustle & Flow, claimed Diddy reached out again.

“Then, next thing you know, okay, ‘Hey, will you help me? I wanna hear your music,'” he said.

Howard continued, “So I come over there and I play the music. He’s sitting there just looking at me, like waiting. Okay. So then my assistant was like: ‘He wants to hang out with you next weekend.’ I was like: ‘For what?’ He was like: ‘I think he’s trying to f–k you.'”

The actor’s response at the time: “I was like: ‘Oh, okay. Now I get it.’ So now no more communication. Now you know to be hands off with somebody.”

He went on to allege Diddy sent “a number” of music industry insiders to request meetings.

“A number of producers come in and make the approach, and you threaten to punch them in the mouth, or threaten to knock their head off for talking to you like, or looking at you like you’re a woman,” he said. “When you approach a real man about his masculinity, you’re gonna get a real reaction back.”

Howard then said, “I don’t do that s–t because the man card means everything.”

He added that “a lot of actors” who did not maintain their “man card” became “fluid.”

Since the interview aired, several websites have dug up pictures of Howard partying with Diddy. One picture was taken at the Council of Fashion Designers of America, 2006 CFDA Awards afterparty.

Watch the full interview below.