Diddy documentary is both terrifying and exhausting

Accusations go on and on in 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning', executive produced by rival 50 Cent says, Hannah Ewens

- Hannah Ewens

In the first episode of this four-hour docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs, his former business partner Kirk Burrowes has a Come to Jesus moment. He had ignored a troubling incident back in the Nineties, dismissing it as a passing dark moment for Combs. “Does that make me part of the Sean Combs cult?” Burrowes asks himself in a to-camera interview.

It’s a question he and others in the Diddy camp have probably asked many times, after dismissing glaring signs of this man’s harmful potential. “I may have been the first disciple, believer and then overall protector against all odds,” he admits. But Burrowes didn’t just turn a blind eye; he was a victim himself.

Burrowes’ journey echoes the stories of other interviewees in Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning. People fall under Diddy’s spell, then get unnerved, then dismiss the worst of him as he dangles carrots to seduce them further, until they can’t see a way out from under his boot. It’s surprising just how many interviewees