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On the 4th day of Kim Porter's abrupt death, Diddy shared a moving societal media tribute to his precocious ex.
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Diddy is honoring Kim Porter on the 4th day of her death.
The rapper marked the somber occasion with a moving societal media tribute to his ex, successful which he reflected connected their beingness together.
"I'm gonna archer y'all a story," Diddy begins the Nov. 15 video, arsenic helium walks done his backyard. "Once upon a clip determination was a young antheral from Harlem who met a beauteous young woman from Columbus, GA. I'm talking astir this chick was the coolest, astir graceful, astir ghetto, astir beautiful, astir elegant, but astir importantly the astir loving idiosyncratic that I ever met."
He past recalled gathering Kim—with whom helium welcomed 3 children, Christian 24, and duplicate daughters, D'Lila Star and Jessie James, 16, during their on-again, off-again 13-year relationship—when they were some moving astatine Uptown Records successful the aboriginal '90s.
"She utilized to enactment astatine the beforehand table astatine Uptown and I was an intern astatine Uptown," the rapper continued. "I'd locomotion done each greeting I conscionable couldn't hold to spot her face, and I would ne'er smile, origin I was from New York—I'm not a smiler—and she was like, 'Boy if I can't marque you smile, can't cipher tin marque you smile.' And I've been smiling ever since."
Even though Diddy and Kim broke up for the past clip successful 2007, they remained adjacent friends and co-parents to their 3 kids and her kid from a erstwhile narration whom Diddy adopted. The histrion and exemplary was recovered dormant successful her Los Angeles location connected Nov. 15, 2018. She was 47 years old. It was aboriginal revealed that she died of pneumonia.
"I privation to speech to a batch of radical that are going done grief, helium continued. "It feels similar it ain't going ne'er extremity and it don't end, and you recognize that it is what it is. This is God's volition and God's timing. Everything happens for a crushed I'm a amended antheral for it. My household is tighter for it."
Looking backmost astatine their beingness together, the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper expressed gratitude.
"There's a happening called collateral beauty. There's quality successful antagonistic and tragic situations," helium explained. "I'm a surviving testimony, maine and my family. I'm present and filled with the glory of God. And I'm blessed for each 2nd I had with her."
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Diddy ended his tribute by sharing a statue helium installed connected his spot successful Kim's honor, saying it's thing helium looks astatine each azygous day.
"I person to retrieve erstwhile I look retired the model that I'm a begetter first," helium added. "A Black king first, and she's the top happening that ever happened to me."
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