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Diddy's Childhood Friends Detail His Youth in New Doc: 'Monsters Are Made'
The new Peacock documentary ‘Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy’ includes interviews with people who knew the rapper as a young man
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Tim Patterson, who grew up with Diddy, 55, in Mount Vernon, New York, drew a clear line between the man born as Sean Combs and the one who became known as Puffy, Brother Love and other names. Patterson claimed that Diddy’s mother, Janice Combs, inherited money after her husband’s death, which allowed her and her kids to move to a nicer neighborhood in Mount Vernon. Deal claimed that Diddy initially had a hard time fitting in and was roughed up by guys from his Same Gang crew who didn’t like that the young Combs wasn’t from Harlem.
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