Actor Terrence Howard made a shocking claim in a new interview that Sean “Diddy” Combs tried to seduce him while pretending to want acting lessons.
As Page Six reports, Howard visited the “PBD Podcast” on Friday when he revealed the alleged incident. “Puffy invited me, for weeks, asking me to come teach him how to — wanted me to be his acting coach for a while,” the “Hustle & Flow” star, 56 shared.
Howard alleged that Combs then asked to hear his music, but when he tried playing it for him, the Bad Boy Records founder was allegedly once again “just sitting” there.
Howard said his assistant later told him, “I think he’s trying to f**k you,” which clarified the situation.
“Now you know to be hands off with somebody,” Howard explained before noting he allegedly had similar experiences with “a number of producers,” whom he had to “threaten to punch” or “knock their head off.”
“When you approach a real man about his masculinity, you’re going to get a real reaction back,” the “Best Man” star added on the podcast.
“I’ve lost businesses because I don’t bend over in that way. I don’t compromise. I don’t play gay roles. I don’t kiss a man. I don’t do that s–t because the man card means everything.
The outlet added that, Howard’s allegations come 10 years after Combs had banned his sons from appearing on the actor’s hit show “Empire.”
Sources told them at the time that Diddy’s stepson, Quincy Brown, was guaranteed a part on the Fox drama but Combs halted that when he learned a portion of his music rights would be signed over.
“Diddy kicked up a huge stink and called all the top brass at 20th Century Fox TV to get them to change their rules over music rights,” but he didn’t get his way, an insider claimed.
“He said there was no way his son was signing over his intellectual property. So he banned him from the show.