Model Daphne Joy is breaking her silence after the leak of an alleged sexually explicit video featuring her with Sean “Diddy” Combs and another man.
“Everybody plays the fool sometime, and I have been the biggest fool,” Daphne, 39, wrote in a since-deleted Instagram statement on Monday, June 1, according to The Shade Room. “I just wanted my man at the time to be happy and satisfied … I wanted to fulfill all his desires … even if that meant breaking my own boundaries. I deeply loved him … and I believed he loved me too.”
Daphne continued, “It’s still so painful for me to process the harsh reality and truth of that relationship, but as time passes and in my quiet moments, I realize that it was far from love.”
Daphne then claimed that she “never consented” to being filmed in the alleged sex tape.
“I was blackmailed by the person in the video and was threatened that if I didn’t give him the lump sum of money that they would leak it on the web,” she added. “l almost gave in to this demand, and once I didn’t, this person eventually sold this tape to a giant media outlet.”
Daphne said she “fainted” for the first time in her life when she was contacted by the media outlet about the tape.
“Once the media company understood the tape they purchased was revenge porn and an extortion scheme, they backed off from broadcasting it,” she wrote. “I know they are probably reading this, and I want to say thank you for doing the right thing … even though years later … it’s come back to haunt me again.”
Daphne referred to the tape as “abuse” and said it was “triggering and painful” to revisit.
“I knew the inner turmoil and pressures I felt in those moments,” she wrote. “I was not and was never in my right mind throughout the entirety of that relationship. Seeing myself so lost is excruciating. I just want to hold that girl in that room and get her out of there … and tell her that wasn’t love and she didn’t need to do this for love. My heart is breaking as I type this.”
Daphne concluded, “I wish so many things were different, but I can’t take back the hands of time … l can only continue to move forward and slowly learn to love and trust myself again … I want to love and protect myself so much that I’ll never come across such a harmful environment again … This is the first time that I have ever felt a part of my own body and that my body belongs to me … I am precious, I am special, I am worthy …. this I promise to hold true in my heart for the woman I am becoming and for the woman I once lost.”
Us Weekly reached out to a rep for Diddy for comment.
After the sex tape was allegedly leaked, Daphne’s ex, 50 Cent, with whom she shares 13-year-old son Sire, took to X to share his reaction. (The rapper, 50, has also had a longtime rivalry with Diddy, 56.)
“👀 She’s not a victim, SIRE is,” 50 Cent wrote of Daphne and their child. “Can you imagine going to eighth grade to find out this is your mom. The court system in LA thinks it’s fine.”
In February 2024, Daphne was named as a “sex worker” whom Diddy paid in a sex trafficking lawsuit filed against the music producer by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. Daphne denied the claim, calling it “character assassination.”
Diddy is currently serving 50 months in federal prison after he was convicted of transportation for prostitution in a separate criminal case in July 2025.
