Chelsea Handler has no bad blood with ex-boyfriend Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — and is even singing his praises.
The 50-year-old comedian was asked to name her “celebrity of the year” during a recent appearance on the “LadyGang” podcast and she was quick to bring up the rapper and his Netflix docuseries about Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“I want to be loyal to him as an ex-lover,” Handler said during the Tuesday, December 23, podcast episode. “He put out that Diddy documentary. He’s been clowning Diddy this whole time.”
50 Cent produced Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which was released via Netflix earlier this month. The four-part docuseries featured never-before-seen footage of Diddy along with interviews with several of his past associates.
Diddy was arrested in September 2024 and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty and was acquitted of the sex trafficking and racketeering charges this past July.
The disgraced music mogul was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He is currently serving a 50-month sentence at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix.
“I think I went to one party at Diddy’s maybe, like, 20 years ago,” Handler said during her “LadyGang” podcast appearance. “But I knew right away. I was like, ‘This guy is so gross.’”
Handler said that she and 50 Cent never discussed his issues with Diddy while they were together in 2011.
“I love what he’s been doing, and I love that he paid for those women’s lawyers,” she continued. “I’m gonna go with 50 Cent, just because he deserves an award every year.”
She added, “I just love to talk about him, because he’s such a sweetheart. You know what, it’s nice to have ex-boyfriends that you’re not repulsed by.”
Diddy’s team slammed 50 Cent’s docuseries, calling it a “shameful hit piece” in a statement to Us Weekly earlier this month.
The spokesperson for Diddy claimed that “Netflix relied on stolen footage that was never authorized for release” for the docuseries.
“As Netflix and CEO Ted Sarandos know, Mr. Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to tell his own story, in his own way. It is fundamentally unfair, and illegal, for Netflix to misappropriate that work,” the statement continued. “Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalize every minute of Mr. Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalize on a never-ending media frenzy.”
They continued, “If Netflix cared about truth or about Mr. Combs’s legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context – including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing. No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party.”
Netflix defended the release of Sean Combs: The Reckoning in a statement of their own, calling out the “false” allegations made by Diddy’s team.
“The footage of Combs leading up to his indictment and arrest were legally obtained,” the streaming service said in a statement to Us. “This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution. Curtis Jackson [50 Cent] is an executive producer but does not have creative control. No one was paid to participate.”
