In a post on her Instagram, Daphne Joy shared a statement addressing a leaked video that allegedly showed her engaging in sexual intercourse with sex worker Sly Diggler while Diddy, whom she previously dated, watched on.
“Everybody plays the fool sometime, and I have been the biggest fool,” she wrote in the statement, which can be seen below. “I just wanted my man at the time to be happy and satisfied… I wanted to fulfill all his desires. Even if that meant breaking my own boundaries. I deeply loved him… and I believed he loved me too. It’s still so painful for me to process the harsh reality and truth of that relationship, but as time passes and in my quiet moments, I realize that it was far from love.”
She wrote that the leak is from a video that she “never consented” to being recorded, and that “the person in the video” used it as blackmail in order to extort money.
“I was blackmailed by the person in the video and was threatened that if I didn’t give him the lump sum of money that they would leak it on the web,” she continued. “I almost gave in to this demand and once I didn’t, this person eventually sold this tape to a giant media outlet.”
Joy added that when she was contacted by the media company in possession of the sex tape, she fainted for the first time in her life.
“Once the media company understood the tape they purchased was revenge porn and an extortion scheme, they backed off from broadcasting it,” she wrote, noting that this was “years” ago. She referred to the tape as “abuse” and said it was “triggering and painful” to revisit the footage.
50 Cent, who has a child, Sire Jackson, with Daphne Joy, shared his reaction to the leak on Instagram. “Free Diddy he has gone through enough being born with no penis. LOL,” he wrote alongside screenshots of the alleged tape. "She's not a victim, SIRE is. Can you imagine going to eighth grade to find out this is your mom.”
Joy reportedly dated Diddy from 2021 until his arrest in 2024. It is unclear when the alleged sex tape was recorded.
