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And you thought you had a decent handle on the Diddy situation! But the memes alone made it feel like the whole internet had already solved the case before Netflix even uploaded the documentary.

But once you sit through Sean Combs: The Reckoning, you’ll realise how much more is yet to come. You’ll realise that we’d only been seeing scraps on the internet. The doc pulls everything into one timeline, and the rumours people once treated like jokes stop feeling like jokes.

What really might come as a shock is how many people showed up and said things directly. That too, without any shady editing or mysterious silhouettes. Just former assistants and artists, even friends and executives, spoke in a way that will make you wonder how any of this stayed hidden for so long. Every episode drops something so shocking that it will help your jaw get a little closer to the floor.

And it’s not just recent stuff. The doc reaches all the way back into the ’90s, connects old headlines to things happening now, and you start seeing patterns nobody wanted to admit were there. It is wild how different the story looks when everything is laid out in order.

So, out of everything that will have your jaw doing laps, these seven revelations are the ones you still can’t shake. The ones that made people pause the episode and just stare at the screen like… how was this real life?

Seven most insane revelations from the Diddy documentary

Diddy literally filmed his own downfall

The first thing that hits you is the footage. Actual clips Diddy recorded himself right before the arrest, and the vibe is… strange. He is talking straight to the camera, walking around, sounding like someone who knows things are closing in but is still trying to hold the public version of himself together. It feels very raw in a quite weird way nobody expected to ever see.

And Netflix just places it there without any buildup. No warning. One minute, you are watching people talk about the early years, and the next, you are staring at Diddy basically documenting the days before everything collapsed. Seeing him like that makes all those headlines from last year click like the internet never managed to explain. This sequence in the documentary will make you change everything you know about Diddy.

Freak-off stories weren’t internet jokes after all

Once you recover from the home-recorded clips, the doc moves into those stories people kept joking about online. Except here, they aren’t jokes anymore. Former associates sit down and talk about these events in a plain, matter-of-fact tone, which makes everything ten times heavier. They discuss how these gatherings worked, who was around, and how normal it became inside that circle, and you realise the internet had only been scratching the surface without any real detail.

Hearing these accounts from people who were present changes the conversation entirely. It’s not rumours floating on social media when you see a real person explain something they witnessed. The whole section drags you into a space where nobody expected the doc to touch this directly. And once this part settles in your head, the shift into workplace stories makes even more sense.

Former employees describe a workplace ruled by fear

This is where the tone drops again. Folks who worked around him speak with this tired honesty that tells you these memories didn’t soften with time. They talk about unpredictable moments and an environment where staying quiet felt safer than questioning anything. The energy they describe isn’t dramatic for effect. It’s just the reality they remember, and that plainness hits harder than any stylised retelling could.

What stands out is how many different roles these people held. You have assistants, executives, and creatives all telling stories that point in the same direction. And once you hear them, the bigger allegations from the past don’t feel disconnected anymore. This part prepares you for the part of the documentary where the older and much, much darker events from the industry history return with details people have always argued about.

The Tupac allegation comes back with details people never had

The documentary eventually reaches the East Coast–West Coast period, and this is where the long-running Tupac allegation comes back. Not through conspiracies or fan edits — through people who were close to the investigation or connected to the events around it. Former detective Greg Kading talks about statements made by Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who claimed there was talk of money being promised through Combs’ associate, Eric “Zip” Martin. It’s presented exactly as that: an allegation Davis made, not something the documentary tries to frame as proven.

Hearing these pieces laid out together gives a clearer picture of how messy that era was. The doc doesn’t accuse anyone outright. It just places these claims next to the timeline people already know, and once you see it arranged this plainly, the conversation around Tupac’s death feels different, even without firm answers.

Biggie’s part of the story hits in a completely different way

The episode moves into Biggie’s death, and everything just slows down a bit. The accounts here are much different because his legacy carries an emotional weight that never faded. People close to him talk about the aftermath, the decisions that were made, the money that shifted around, and how certain responsibilities were handled. None of it is shouted.

Fans have argued about this period for decades, but hearing these accounts directly sheds light on gaps the public never understood. It’s the moment in the documentary where even casual viewers stop moving for a second.

Aubrey O’Day’s testimony pulls the entire tone downward

Her section feels heavier the moment it begins because she doesn’t rush through anything. She talks about emails, behaviour, and a reported incident she didn’t even know happened until someone reached out years later. She reads parts of that affidavit on camera, and the room feels tense through the screen. We repeat, there is nothing exaggerated here. It is just a woman trying to understand something she was never told at the time.

This is one of those moments where the documentary stops feeling distant. Her voice, her confusion, the details she shares, all of it links past industry stories to the present in a way that makes the timeline feel sharper. And when her segment ends, you think the doc might stop dropping a bigger bomb, but instead it moves into an account from someone who was caught in an even more frightening situation.

Capricorn Clark describes an incident that doesn’t feel real at first

You might have to pause this part because the story she tells feels unreal at first. She explains how she got pulled into this mess involving Kid Cudi, and the whole thing moves fast in her retelling. She talks about being taken along during this rage-filled moment, and the details keep coming one after another. No performance. Not even a dramatic voice. She just tells it straight, which makes it even harder to process. You can tell this isn’t something she talks about often.

And when she gets into how scared she was and how trapped she felt, it suddenly connects so much from earlier in the doc. You finally understand why so many people just stayed quiet and kept moving. Her account is so horrifying that it stays with you after the episode ends, because it doesn’t sound rehearsed.