Tyson Beckford is diving into the small print of a “road combat” he bought into with Sean “Diddy” Combs and his crew again within the day.
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The mannequin and actor stopped by The Breakfast Membership this week, the place he opened up a few decades-old “road combat” allegedly involving Diddy and his entourage. Beckford recalled what began out as a typical day in New York Metropolis, speaking with a buddy outdoors of a tattoo store when trend stylist Groovey Lew — who was intently affiliated with Diddy on the time — requested him to take a photograph with a girl he was with.
“I stated, ‘Yo, my man, I’m having a dialog,’” he recalled, saying issues rapidly escalated right into a combat. “He began getting powerful. I stated, ‘Lew, don’t speak to me like that.’ Subsequent factor you already know, he swung on me.”
Beckford went on to clarify that the combat left him with a bloody head harm that required six stitches. An NYPD officer stopped to evaluate the scenario however, regardless of the seen accidents, the star claims he drove off when each events downplayed the altercation.
A couple of moments later, the strain grew, and Beckford claims Lew left the scene after which returned with Diddy and several other members of his Dangerous Boy crew from a close-by workplace. Then, the mannequin’s buddy went to his Land Cruiser to retrieved his pistol-grip Mossberg shotgun.
“I stated, ‘Look, I solely bought 5 [shells] in right here,’” Beckford recalled. “Puff, you going to get it first… I’m going to bathe the remainder of y’all with it.”
No pictures ended up being fired, and the confrontation ended with out additional violence–however Beckford spoke on simply how shut the scenario got here to taking a tragic flip.
“I may have saved the world a complete lot of hassle and took him out again then,” he stated of Combs. “However then the place would I be?”
When requested if he’s reconciled with the Dangerous Boy founder because the altercation, Beckford stated, “I ain’t seen the person in years… however yeah, he know — don’t mess with me.”
Extra particulars in regards to the altercation, together with different beforehand untold tales of his life, shall be included in Beckford’s upcoming ebook and manufacturing undertaking, Fairly Boy.
“I’m doing the ebook,” he stated. “And all of that’s going to be in Fairly Boy. That’s a chilly scene — standing on Sixth Avenue with a shotgun.”
Try Tyson Beckford’s full interview on The Breakfast Membership up above.
