Usher spoke about the mysterious disappearance of his tweets after his friend and former mentor Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested for sex trafficking.
Over the weekend, almost all posts, media and replies on the “Yeah!” singer’s X-Account (formerly Twitter) were seemingly deleted, catching the attention of fans.
But Usher, 45, claimed on Sunday that his account had been “hacked.”
“The account was hacked and damn it, you ran off with it!” he wrote in a tweet.
“See you tonight at the Intuit Dome,” he added, referring to his sold-out show in Inglewood, California, on his Past, Present, Future tour.
Since Monday morning, all posts on Usher’s X account seem to be visible again.
Combs, 54, discovered Usher and helped make the “My Boo” singer a major star. They even lived together in New York in the ’90s when Usher was a teenager.
Usher has not yet commented on Combs’ latest arrest. The record executive was taken into custody in New York last week. Prosecutors accuse him of involvement in sex trafficking and “freak off” parties. He was released on bail and is under suicide watch in a Brooklyn jail.
In a recent lawsuit filed by Dawn Richard of Danity Kane, Usher and Ne-Yo were accused of witnessing Combs physically abusing his ex, Cassie Ventura.
Ventura, who dated Combs on and off from 2007 to 2018, filed a civil lawsuit against the music mogul last year, claiming he raped and abused her. Combs settled with Ventura a day later.
In May, a shocking surveillance video was leaked that apparently shows Combs beating Ventura in a hotel hallway in 2016. Combs subsequently apologized for his actions in a now-deleted Instagram video.
In March, after Combs’ homes in LA and Miami were raided by federal agents investigating his alleged sex trafficking, an interview resurfaced in which Usher discussed the time he lived with Combs when he was 14.
Usher told Howard Stern in a 2016 interview that he had observed “very strange things” in Combs’ New York mansion.
“It was pretty wild. It was crazy. Very strange things were happening and I didn’t necessarily understand them,” Usher said.
He added: “I had the opportunity to look at a few things… I don’t know if I was able to get into it and even understand what I was looking at.”
Usher also referred to Combs as his “brother” in the interview.
In 2004, Usher told Rolling Stone that “there were always girls around” when he lived with Combs.
“You would open a door and see someone or several people in a room having an orgy,” he revealed. “You never knew what was going to happen.”
