Yung Miami was one of the few celebrities who publicly supported Sean “Diddy” Combs during his sex trafficking and prostitution trial. Now the rapper says that support came with a cost.
The former City Girls performer wrote a character letter to Judge Arun Subramanian in September 2025, asking him to show Combs leniency at sentencing.
The rapper, who was born Caresha Brownlee, told the judge she previously dated the music mogul for three years, and insisted he is a “different person” than the abusive partner two of his former girlfriends described in court testimony.
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Brownlee sat down for a wide-ranging interview, released on March 24, with The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God.
The rapper was asked why she wrote a letter defending Combs, after seeing the surveillance video showing the mogul physically attacking ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
“I think I wrote a letter for a changed man,” Brownlee said. “I think that the man that I met and that I experienced was changed. I’m not gonna justify some bulls–t or support some bulls–t. I felt like the person that I met was changed. It was a different experience, so that’s why I wrote the letter.”
In the letter, she said Combs “encouraged” her and gave her a “voice” by offering opportunities at the Revolt network, which he founded. “He helped shape me both professionally and personally. He believed in me, pushed me to grow, and taught me how to be a better businesswoman,” she wrote in the letter.
Charlamagne asked the rapper how she separates the man she cares about from the one accused of a multiple crimes.
“I think in life you always get put in a situation where you gotta make a life decision,” she said. “And you gotta look back and say like, ‘What makes sense for me right now?’ I can love this person, but I can love this person from a distance, or no, I can have a relationship with this person, but maybe I gotta come back to it. Like, maybe I gotta come back around, and I think that this was one of those situations.”
Still, the rapper admitted she faced backlash for supporting Combs.
“It was a lot,” she said. “I lost deals, I lost money, I lost relationships. I lost a lot, and here I am,” she said.
Combs is currently serving a 50-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New Jersey. He is scheduled to be released on April 25, 2028, according to the Bureau of Prisons website.
You can watch the full interview below. Yung Miami discusses Diddy at the 13:44 mark:
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