Rapper, Diddy, paid tribute to his ex Kim Porter in an emotional eulogy
at her funeral which took place on Saturday in Columbus, Georgia.The
former model was found dead on Nov. 15 at age 47. She died after
suffering from a bout of pneumonia but her exact cause of death is
unknownIn an audio recording obtained by TMZ, Combs described his
relationship with Porter and made a promise to their children:
Christian, D’Lila Star and Jessie James his kids with Porter), Quincy
(Porter’s son from a previous relationship whom Combs helped raise) and
Justin and Chance (Combs’ children from other relationships).Read the
eulogy below“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,” said Combs, 49, as the audience
applauded at the public funeral inside Cascade Hills Church. “I will
always take care of you.”Combs 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.”“Some people in your life that’s gonna be irreplaceable,”
Combs said. “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.
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.”Beginning the speech,
Combs said, “Anybody who knows Kim, she’s just a person that you vibe
with, you know? 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,” Combs continued. “She just really started
breaking down the exterior of any shell that I put up.”Combs credited
Porter with helping him shake off a stretch of depression. “There’s
something important I need to say,” he started. “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,” he added. “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.'”He
then led the mourners in a call-and-response recitation of the word
“up.” “So whenever you feeling down, you have to remember that,” Combs
said. “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.”After making the pledge to their children, Combs concluded, “And
we just love y’all, we appreciate y’all, appreciate the family. To all
the words that I’m forgetting, to anything I’m forgetting to say, we
love you, Kim. Thank you.”RAPPER Diddy's emotional eulogy to Kim PorterÂ
Rapper, Diddy, paid tribute to his ex Kim Porter in an emotional eulogy
at her funeral which took place on Saturday in Columbus, Georgia.The
former model was found dead on Nov. 15 at age 47. She died after
suffering from a bout of pneumonia but her exact cause of death is
unknownIn an audio recording obtained by TMZ, Combs described his
relationship with Porter and made a promise to their children:
Christian, D’Lila Star and Jessie James his kids with Porter), Quincy
(Porter’s son from a previous relationship whom Combs helped raise) and
Justin and Chance (Combs’ children from other relationships).Read the
eulogy below“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,” said Combs, 49, as the audience
applauded at the public funeral inside Cascade Hills Church. “I will
always take care of you.”Combs 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.”“Some people in your life that’s gonna be irreplaceable,”
Combs said. “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.
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.”Beginning the speech,
Combs said, “Anybody who knows Kim, she’s just a person that you vibe
with, you know? 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,” Combs continued. “She just really started
breaking down the exterior of any shell that I put up.”Combs credited
Porter with helping him shake off a stretch of depression. “There’s
something important I need to say,” he started. “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,” he added. “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.'”He
then led the mourners in a call-and-response recitation of the word
“up.” “So whenever you feeling down, you have to remember that,” Combs
said. “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.”After making the pledge to their children, Combs concluded, “And
we just love y’all, we appreciate y’all, appreciate the family. To all
the words that I’m forgetting, to anything I’m forgetting to say, we
love you, Kim. Thank you.”
