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Home · Love & Sex

Diddy Remembers Kim Porter One Year After Her Death

Diddy remembers the mother, entrepreneur and the one he called his soulmate.
Diddy Remembers Kim Porter One Year Since Her Death
By Jasmine Grant · Updated December 6, 2020

It’s been one year since the unexpected death of model and entrepreneur, Kim Porter. Diddy (aka Sean Combs), her former partner and father of three of her children, has never been shy about how her tragic loss has affected him and their family. Today, he remembers the woman he once called his soulmate.

Today, the mogul honored Kim on Instagram with a photo of a broken heart emoji. The caption simply reads Porter’s initials, “KP.”

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A post shared by Diddy (@diddy) on Nov 14, 2019 at 7:03am PST

Diddy also shared one of his favorite memories of Porter, where she sits at the piano and plays the family a tune. “Every time I get sad I look at this video and it brings a smile to my face,” Diddy revealed.

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I MISS YOU SOOOOOO MUCH. So much 💔. Every time I get sad I look at this video and it brings a smile to my face. I THANK GOD FOR THE PRECIOUS TIME HE ALLOWED US TO HAVE WITH YOU. I WISH YOU WERE HERE WITH US RIGHT NOW AND THIS WAS ALL A DREAM. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP ON THAT WISH. NEVER!!! Love you forever Kimberly Antwinette Goodwin Porter. ❤️

A post shared by Diddy (@diddy) on Nov 15, 2019 at 12:49pm PST

In his May 2019 cover story for ESSENCE, Combs told friend and journalist Dream Hampton what it was like to get the call. He says the passing of Porter was “a total shock” and “most traumatic thing I’ve ever been through.”

Diddy Remembers Kim Porter One Year Since Her Death
Sean Diddy Combs poses with his girlfriend, model Kim Porter and their children as Combs receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Children shown (L-R) Combs and Porter’s son Christian, Porter’s son Quincy Jones Brown Jr., Combs and Porter’s twin daughters D’Lila Star Combs and Jessie James Combs and Combs and Porter’s son Justin Dior Combs. (Photo by Frank Trapper/Corbis via Getty Images)

“She had the flu, and she sent the kids over to my house so they wouldn’t get sick,” he said of the days before Porter’s death. “One night I was checking on her, and she was like, ‘Puffy, take care of my babies.’ She actually said that to me before she died.”

To keep their kids protected, he says he immediately “jumped into mommy mode” to make sure they didn’t find out about their mother’s death through social media. He even had their son Christian’s phone disconnected so he wouldn’t read the news while traveling.

Kim Porter passed away from lobar pneumonia on November 15, 2018. She was laid to rest Saturday, November 24, 2018 in her hometown of Columbus, Georgia. Dozens of celebrities flew in to say their goodbyes, including Usher, Lil’ Kim, Mary J. Blige, Yolanda Adams, Faith Evans, and Porter’s longtime friend Kimora Lee Simmons.

Rest in peace, Kim Porter! We’re sending love and light to the Combs family on this day.

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