"In a last-ditch bid for freedom, Sean "Diddy" Combs pleaded for mercy, apologized to his sex trafficking accusers, and said he's learned his lesson while speaking at his sentencing hearing on Friday following his conviction on prostitution-related charges. Donning a cream-colored sweater over a white button-down and black pants, the 55-year-old hip-hop mogul said he's lost his self-respect and hates himself in a speech to US District Judge Arun Subramanian in a packed lower Manhattan courtroom."
""My actions were disgusting, shameful, and sick," Combs said. "I was sick, sick from the drugs. I was out of control. I needed help, but I didn't get the help." "Because of that, I could make no excuse. And I can really make no excuse because I knew better," he said."
""I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs," Combs wrote to Subramanian. "This has been the hardest 2 years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself.""
Sean "Diddy" Combs appeared at a Manhattan sentencing hearing after conviction on prostitution-related charges. He apologized to his sex trafficking accusers, admitted to being driven by drugs, and said he had lost his self-respect. Six of his children made emotional pleas for his release and described him as a changed man who remains needed at home. In a four-page pre-sentencing letter he asked the judge for mercy and wrote that he takes full responsibility and accountability for past wrongs. He characterized the past two years as the hardest of his life and said he has no one to blame but himself.
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