Pink is speaking out about a rumor that’s spread online this week linking her to Sean “Diddy” Combs following his recent arrest.
The rumor in question began with people noticing that the pop singer had wiped her account clean on X. In light of the Bad Boy Records founder readying himself for trial on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, some Internet sleuths drew conclusions that Pink’s absence from the website implied she was trying to erase clues that she was somehow involved in the scandal — but the one glaring problem with that theory is that the “So What” singer deactivated her profile nearly eight months ago.
“I don’t know why I became a headline this week, but I wiped my Twitter account on February 6!!!” Pink wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, sharing a screenshot of her final tweet: “This account will self destruct in two minutes. Do it!!!!!!”
“There is no truth to the rumors spread this week, and while I’ve met people in passing, I’m not associated with any of the people mentioned,” she added.
Pink isn’t the only musician whose X habits have sparked Diddy-related rumors recently. Usher also had to speak out when people spread similar claims based on his own recent departure from the site, which he explained Sunday had merely been due to a hack. “Account got hacked and damn y’all ran with it!” he tweeted at the time, having seemingly recovered his account.
Combs is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., ahead of his trial, which — if he’s found guilty on all charges of physical abuse, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and more — could end with him being sentenced to life in prison. He’s been denied bail twice so far, with Judge Andrew L. Carter reasoning that the hip-hop titan poses a flight risk with the resources to intimidate witnesses if he wanted to.
See P!nk’s post below.