Diddy 'Will Go to Prison for Life,' Wendy Williams Says

Wendy Williams believes Diddy will “go to prison for life” following his 2024 racketeering and trafficking arrest.

This assessment comes in during the closing minutes of Williams’ interview with The Breakfast Club, released Thursday. The bulk of the conversation, as previously reported, saw Williams and her niece, Alex, detailing what they describe as a “prison”-like guardianship. Williams also said that she is “not cognitively impaired,” despite rumors suggesting otherwise.

About 34 minutes into the interview, Charlamagne broached the Diddy topic by again mentioning Williams allegedly being fired from Hot 97 earlier in her career in connection with claims she made about the Bad Boy Records founder. Williams responded by reflecting on how she has reacted to what she’s recently seen on TMZ before getting a bit more specific, predicting a hefty sentence for Diddy.

“As far as Diddy, Diddy will go to prison for life, people,” she said. “You don’t know things that I do about Diddy back in the day. And you wanna know what? It’s about time, people. It is about time. Diddy done.”

In September 2024, Diddy was arrested in New York and later accused in an unsealed indictment of racketeering and trafficking. In a post-arrest, pre-indictment statement, an attorney for Diddy described the larger case as an attempted “unjust prosecution” of their client. Diddy, the attorney said at the time, had been “nothing but cooperative” with the investigation, citing his voluntary relocation to New York.

“These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide,” the attorney in question, Marc Agnifilo, said.

More recently, Diddy was made the subject of a Golden Globes joke from host Nikki Glaser (“The afterparty's not gonna be as good this year”), while his legal team has argued that alleged “freak off” footage actually proves his innocence in the case. A trial is slated to begin in May.