Sebastian Telfair and Diddy both served time at New Jersey institution Fort Dix, where the two men apparently had a conversation about their similar circumstances.
The former NBA player briefly discussed the Bad Boy Entertainment founder on the Tuesday (January 20) episode of The Pivot Podcast. Telfair, 40, was sentenced to six months last August for his involvement in a $4 million health care fraud scheme, while Diddy, real name Sean Combs, was ordered to serve 50 months in October for violating two counts of the Mann Act. In July, the music executive was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution after seven-week-long racketeering and sexual assault trial.
Around the 17-minute mark of the episode below, Pivot co-host Ryan Clark asked what Telfair "took away" from speaking to Diddy, which the former athlete didn't speak at length about.
"Shout out to Diddy. I hope he gets through everything he's going through. But I learned my lesson soon as judge said six months," said Telfair, who was released in December.
"I ain't need to be in here talking to Diddy or nobody else," he continued. "I don't really want to give Diddy my lesson. I learned from that. But shout out to him. I hope he gets through the situation. I hope he's a better person when he gets out."
While Diddy's legal team has repeatedly tried to give their client an appeal, even claiming that Judge Arun Subramanian acted as a "thirteenth juror," the music mogul has reportedly been working at Fort Dix. Along with cleaning inmate laundry, he was last reported to be an employee at the institution's media library.
Telfair might have sent well-wishes to the rapper and producer, Diddy's former Bad Boy artists, like Danity Kane member Aubrey O'Day, doesn't believe he's "learned the right lessons." The pop vocalist has also accused Diddy of sexual harassment.
"I think he's observing it from a perspective that potentially could be accurate on some levels, but the really serious levels and concerning levels that I see," O'Day said in an episode of podcast HelloPrenup earlier this month. "I don't think we even discussed them during the trial."