Kim Porter death: Diddy breaks silence on ex-girlfriend's passing with Twitter tribute

'For the last three days I’ve been trying to wake up out of this nightmare. But I haven’t'

Sean “Diddy” Combs has made a public statement about the death of his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter.

Porter, who had three children with Diddy, was found dead on Thursday at her home in the Toluca Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, according to TMZ.

“For the last three days I’ve been trying to wake up out of this nightmare. But I haven’t,” he wrote on Twitter. “I don’t know what I’m going to do without you baby. I miss you so much. Today I’m going to pay tribute to you, I’m going to try and find the words to explain our unexplainable relationship.”

He added: “We were more than best friends, we were more than soulmates. WE WERE SOME OTHER S***!! And I miss you so much. Super Black Love.”

Diddy’s representative confirmed Porter’s death to TMZ, and while an LAPD spokesperson contacted by The Independent wouldn’t confirm names, they said officers had responded to a call concerning a female in Toluca Lake at 11.38am.

Porter had suffered from flu-like symptoms and possibly pneumonia for several weeks, a source told TMZ. Porter’s cause of death remains unknown at this time. Dispatch audio obtained by TMZ mentions a person in cardiac arrest.

Porter’s tumultuous relationship with Diddy – real name Sean Combs – began in 1994 and ended in 2007. At the time, she said Diddy’s philandering was one the reasons for their breakup.

“As Black women we sacrifice,” she told Essence magazine in 2006. “We stand by our man, through thick and thin, through whatever. But if you feel like, ‘Maybe I am getting the short end of the stick,’ that’s when a change has to take place.”

At the time, she was pregnant with the couple’s twin daughters D’Lila Star and Jessie James, when a friend informed her that Combs had recently fathered a baby with another woman.

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