>> Whoopi: WELCOME BACK. TALK ABOUT AMAZING TELEVISION. PEOPLE ARE RIVETED BY THE NEW NETFLIX DOCUSERIES “SEAN COMBS THE RECKONING” PRODUCED BY HIS LONG-TIME RIFVAL 50 CENT. TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE TRAILER. >> WE HAVE TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT WILL WORK WITH US THAT HAS DEALT IN THE DIRTIEST OF DIRTY BUSINESS.
>> WE’RE LOSING. >> PUFFY, PUFF DADDY, DIDDY, SEAN COMBS. ALL OF THESE REINCARNATIONS ALL OF THOSE NAME CHANGES ARE ATTACHED TO REALLY BAD DEEDS. >> Whoopi: NOW, HE WAS ACQUITTED ON RACKETEERING AND SEX TRAFFICKING CHARGES AND HE DENIES ALL SEXUAL ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS AND IS CURRENTLY IN PRISON FOR PROSTITUTION-RELATED CHARGES. I SEE FROM YOUR FACES YOU’VE JUST STARTED WATCHING THIS — >> Sara: FINISHED.
>> Alyssa: BINGED. >> Whoopi: WHAT WAS SURPRISING? >> Sara: ONE THING THAT JUMPED OUT AT ME, THERE’S SO MUCH IN HERE THAT YOU REALLY HAVE TO KIND OF PICK, BUT I THINK IT’S THE FOURTH INSTALLATION WHERE ROGER BONDS, HIS FORMER HEAD OF SECURITY, SAYS THAT HE ONLY LEANS INTO HIS BLACK ROOTS WHEN IT BENEFITS HIM.
SO YOU WATCH HIS RISE ON BLACK CULTURE AND BLACK PEOPLE AND HOW MUCH HE ABUSED AND RODE ON OTHER PEOPLE’S TALENT. HE GETS — HE’S TOURING HARLEM AND THERE IS A POINT WHERE THEY SAID HE ONLY COMES HOME WHEN THE WORLD SPIT HIM BACK OUT.
HE GETS IN THE CAR AND STARTS TO TALK ABOUT HOW HE NEEDS HAND SANITIZER, HE NEEDS TO CLEAN HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WAS OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE AND HE FELT SO DIRTY. I JUST LOOKED AND I THOUGHT YOU SHOULD FEEL DIRTY, DUDE, FOR A THOUSAND OTHER REASONS BUT THAT IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
>> Alyssa: THIS BLEW MY MIND AND I HAVE TO SAY 50 CENT IS OUT HERE DOING THE LORD’S WORK. WE NEED TO PROTECT HIM AT ALL COSTS. I THINK IF WE PUT HIM ON THE EPSTEIN FILES HE WOULD GET THEM ALL RELEASED IN ONE DAY.
HE GETS INTO SOME VERY HIGH-PROFILE UNSOLVED CRIMES WITH VERY, VERY INTERESTING AND COMPELLING NEW INFORMATION. HE GOES THROUGH DIDDY’S BASICALLY HIS WHOLE LIFE AND TALKS ABOUT THE KIND OF MAN THAT HE WAS. AND I COMMEND HIS COURAGE BECAUSE THE THING YOU SEE THROUGHOUT IS HOW MANY PEOPLE KNEW HOW TERRIBLE HE WAS, WHAT HE WAS ENGAGING IN, BUT THEY WERE AFRAID TO COME FORWARD. 50 CENT IS LIKE I’M JUST GOING TO PUT IT ALL OUT THERE AND LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE.
I TEND TO BELIEVE THE ARC OF HISTORY IS LONG BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE.
EVEN IF HE DIDN’T GET JUSTICE IN THE COURTROOM HE WILL IN THE PUBLIC EYE. >> Ana: THE THING THAT OF COURSE TO ME IS THE MOST SHOCKING AND I THINK PROBABLY THE MOST DELICIOUS PIECE OF PETTY REVENGE BY 50 CENT IS THAT THE CLIP WE JUST SAW AND OTHER PARTS THROUGHOUT THE EPISODES IS FROM A VIDEOGRAPHER THAT WAS HIRED BY SEAN COMBS TO DOCUMENT THE DAYS BEFORE HE GOT ARRESTED. I SUSPECT THAT HE THOUGHT HE COULD USE THIS FOOTAGE TO REBRAND, CLEAR HIS NAME, AND INSTEAD OF THAT 50 CENT GOT HIS HANDS ON IT AND IS NOW THE NUMBER ONE SHOW ON NETFLIX. AND APPARENTLY PART OF THE OTHER VINDICTIVE — SO HE GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO ROBIN ROBERTS, OUR COLLEAGUE HERE ON ABC, BECAUSE APPARENTLY ABC IS ONE OF THE FEW NETWORKS THAT THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SEE IN PRISON. SO HE CAN MAKE SURE THAT HE COULD SEE 50 JUST, YOU KNOW, LAUGHING AT HIM.
HELLO, SEAN COMBS, FROM ABC. >> Sunny: IT’S A LEVEL OF PETTY. DO YOU KNOW WHAT SURPRISED ME ALONG WITH YOU, I THINK, IS THE DEPTH AND THE BREADTH OF HIS ACTIONS AND HOW THEY STARTED VERY EARLY. YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THINK HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE. HE WAS HURT AS A CHILD, HE SAW A LOT OF DYSFUNCTION AS A CHILD AND HE PERPETUATED THAT DYSFUNCTION.
WHAT WAS THE MOST DISTURBING FOR ME IS TO WATCH HIS TWO SONS, JUSTIN AND CHRISTIAN, IN THE VIDEO, IN THE HOTEL ROOM WITH HIM, AND THE FACT THAT THEY SAW A LOT OF THIS. AND I REMEMBER BEING IN THE COURTROOM AND SIX — I THINK ABOUT SIX OF HIS CHILDREN SPOKE AT SENTENCING. SO SIX OF THEM WERE THERE FOR A LOT OF THIS TESTIMONY AND HE FAILED AS A FATHER IN MANY WAYS, BUT IN THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY IN MY VIEW IS TO PROTECT HIS CHILDREN FROM THE DISGUSTING THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON IN HIS LIFE.
SO HE FAILED HIS CHILDREN AND I FOUND THAT THE MOST DEVASTATING. >> Whoopi: YOU KNOW, THE THING THAT ALWAYS GETS ME IS, YOU KNOW, THESE FOLKS HAVE BEEN AROUND AND LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE — IT’S NOT JUST HIM.
IT’S — YOU KNOW, IT’S ALL THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT OVER THE YEARS AND YOU THINK ALL THESE PEOPLE KNEW? AND NOBODY THOUGHT I DON’T CARE, I’M TELLING? JUST MAKES YOU — MAKES YOUR HEART HURT. BUT THEN YOU FIND ALL.
