Calling the late model and his baby mama 'irreplaceable,' the hip-hop mogul promises to their children that he 'will always be there' for them.
- Nov 26, 2018
AceShowbiz - P. Diddy paid a sweet tribute to Kim Porter at her funeral on Saturday, November 24 in Columbus, Georgia. The rapper/record producer, who is also known as Sean Combs, was among family and friends who bid their final farewells to the 47-year-old model on her final resting place located at the Cascades Hills Church.
The music mogul honored his ex-girlfriend in a moving eulogy. "Anybody who knows Kim, she's just a person that you vibe with, you know?" he began his speech. "I can't put our relationship into a certain box. She always told me, seriously, she felt like God sent ... her here to help me out. I'd be like, 'Girl, what are you talking about?' "
"I didn't really understand how to love and, you know, we went through some circumstances, my mother and my family, where we didn’t have a big family and all of that. She just really started breaking down the exterior of any shell that I put up," he went on sharing.
Crediting Kim for always providing him with mental support when he faced depression, Diddy continued, "From the top of the year, I was going through a real dark time, and I was really depressed. And I don't know why. I was getting older and ... I just went through a dark, dark time. And she would come over and make sure - even though we wasn't together like that."
"She was that type of person. It's hard to love somebody when you ain't with them. ... She was just like, 'Come on, Puff, you got to get up. You got to get up. You got to get up out of the bed. You got to get moving. You got to get up,' " the 49-year-old star recalled, before leading the mourners to recite the word "up." "So whenever you feeling down, you have to remember that," he said.
Diddy added, "As time went on, our relationship took so many different changes, from being boyfriend and girlfriend to being lovers to being best friends to being just straight-up homies, like somebody that you know you can count on. Somebody that has your back, you have their back."
Calling Kim "irreplaceable," Diddy said he would continue to listen to her voice inside him. "Kim, we gonna miss you so much. But I ain't gonna miss you too much because I'm not gonna let your voice inside of me stop talking," he said. "I know you like to talk to me a lot once you get on those rants, and I just want you to know I'm gonna be listening."
He also made a promise to their children to always be there for them. "I just want to say to my kids, Justin, Christian, D'Lila, Jessie, Chance and the other man in the house, Quincy: Your mother instilled in me this, and I pledge in front of everybody right now that I will always be there for you," Diddy said. "I will always take care of you."
He prompted laughter from the crowd as he added, "To the girls especially, we about to enter some different type of times. I want you to be able to talk to me about everything, and I mean everything, and I mean everything."
Kim, who was found dead at her Los Angeles home on November 15 after battling a short illness, was laid to rest in a gold casket. Diddy reportedly arranged for Kim's gold casket to arrive at the service in a horse-drawn carriage. He was spotted looking distraught as he sat alone next to Kim's gravesite. Mary J. Blige, Yolanda Adams and Faith Evans performed musical tributes, with Kimora Lee Simmons, Tichina Arnold and NeNe Leakes among other guests at the funeral.
