Daphne Joy says she never consented to being filmed and was blackmailed to keep the alleged Diddy sex tape from going public.
Daphne Joy came forward Monday morning with a detailed public statement confirming the footage circulating online is real and describing what she says was a blackmail scheme that she nearly paid off to keep the tape buried.
The statement, posted to her Instagram and quickly deleted, is the first time Joy has spoken directly about the video since it went viral Sunday and sent the internet into a full spiral.
It’s a gut-punch read.
Joy wrote that she “never consented to being filmed” and described being threatened by the person in possession of the tape, who demanded a lump sum payment or they’d release it.
She said she almost paid, but ultimately didn’t.
“Once I didn’t, this person eventually sold this tape to a giant media outlet,” she wrote.
According to Joy, the outlet actually called her before publishing and told her they had it. She says that call was the first time she ever fainted in her life.
The media company, once they understood the tape was obtained through an extortion scheme, backed off from releasing it. But the damage eventually found its way out anyway.
What makes this statement significant is how Joy frames her state of mind during that entire relationship with Diddy.
She wrote that she “was not and was never in my right mind throughout the entirety of that relationship” and described watching the tape as having to rewatch her own abuse.
“I just want to hold that girl in that room and get her out of there,” she wrote, “and tell her that wasn’t love and she didn’t need to do this for love.”
Those words land differently when you consider that Joy testified as an anonymous “Jane Doe” for six days at Diddy’s federal trial in 2025, describing a coerced relationship that lasted from 2021 until his arrest.
She’s never publicly confirmed she was Jane, but her statement today removes most of the doubt that remained.
Joy closed her statement with a promise to herself: “I want to love and protect myself so much that I’ll never come across such a harmful environment again.”
The timing puts 50 Cent’s Instagram post from Sunday in a different light.
Fif said Joy was “not a victim” and invoked their son Sire, asking people to imagine his son going to eighth grade and finding out this was his mother.
Fif said Joy was “not a victim” and invoked their son Sire, asking people to imagine his son going to eighth grade and finding out this was his mother.
Diddy was convicted on July 2, 2025, on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution under the Mann Act and acquitted of the more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
He was sentenced to 50 months in prison on October 3, 2025, ordered to pay a $500,000 fine, and is currently at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey with a projected release of April 2028 while his appeal works through the Second Circuit.
