With so many documentaries about the rise and fall of Sean “Diddy” Combs released or in the works, producer Ari Mark initially didn’t think he would tackle the subject. But then he developed a relationship with Ariel Mitchell, the attorney representing several cases against the entertainment mogul and realized “there was a much more victim-forward approach” he could take. He also got in touch with a childhood friend who grew up in the same house as Combs.
“When we heard his perspective, it really clicked for us that this could be something more layered and unexpected — a raw exclusive look at Sean Combs long before he was Puff, long before he was Diddy,” Mark tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy‘s release. “We all have an origin story [and] we learned about his upbringing, we learned about him as an outcast, we
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