Sean “Diddy” Combs issued his first public statement about the death of his ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter, the actress and model who was also the mother to his children.
“For the last three days I’ve been trying to wake up out of this nightmare. But I haven’t. I don’t know what I’m going to do without you baby. I miss you so much. Today I’m going to pay tribute to you, I’m going to try and find the words to explain our unexplainable relationship,”
Combs wrote.He also wrote: “We were more than best friends, we were more than soulmates. WE WERE SOME OTHER [expletive]!! And I miss you so much. Super Black Love.”
Last week, Combs’s representative issued a brief statement to news outlets, when Porter died.
“Sadly, I can confirm the passing of Kim Porter. I ask that you give the families privacy at this time,” his representative said.
Officials told TMZ that
they received a call and went to Porter’s Southern California home Nov. 15. She was found dead in her home at the age of 47, and reports indicated she was set to have her 48th birthday soon.
Emergency dispatch indicated that a call came in as a patient who was undergoing cardiac arrest, the report said.
She was “suffering flu-like symptoms, and possibly pneumonia, for several weeks,” said someone close to
Porter in the TMZ report. Her cause of death is not clear.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, meanwhile, confirmed to People magazine that its deputies responded to a death investigation at 11:38 a.m. local time in Toluca Lake, California.
Porter and Combs, who has been known as “Puff Daddy” or “P. Diddy,” had three children together. Their twins, Jessie James and D’Lila, were born in 2006. Their son, Christian, was born in 1998.
As a model, Porter appeared on the covers of Runway and Essence magazines. She also appeared on TV shows “Law & Order” and “Wicked Wicked Games” and had roles in movies “The Brothers” and “Mama, I Want to Sing.”
“You know how when two people go their separate ways, most of the time there’s animosity? It’s not like that with us,” Porter told
Essence in a 2009 interview of their split in 2007. “Sean and I have this bond, this friendship. ... We’re friends. I’m the person he can tell his inner most thoughts to and he’s that person for me.”
“Diddy and Kim had maintained a great relationship over the years and were great co-parents,” a source told
E! News after her death. “Despite their differences, they always made things work for their children.”
A number of celebrities reacted to her death.
“R.I.P to Kim Porter, I send my condolences to her friends and family. She was loved and will be missed dearly. I know Puff is hit right now, he loved her for real … Chin up Puff, Positive vibes only,” wrote rapper 50 Cent on
Twitter.
“This is so heartbreaking. Lord please give her kids & her whole family strength,” rapper Missy Elliott wrote on
Twitter.
“My heart breaks for your beautiful children and family,” actress Viola Davis
wrote.
