Freddy P, who was featured on three seasons of the show between 2002 and 2004, fought through tears as he expressed his worries in a lengthy Instagram video. The former member said he was left empty-handed after participating on the show, causing him to hate life.

“This n***a Puffy is the main motherf**kin’ reason why I hate fu**ing life, dawg,” he said. “People don’t even understand. Like, I don’t even give a f**k. I’ve never been to a point where I thought of suicide my whole life, never. I mean, I’m a gangsta.”

Freddy continued, saying, “I done had it all and I fell to the bottom.”

“How do you come back from that when you battling a giant? It ain’t got nothing to do with your skill no more ’cause your skill is 90% better than any n***a that’s out there right now and the world knows it,” he said. “But it ain’t your skills … the world is built on relationships.”

 

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Former Da Band member Babs Bunny also followed up with criticism of Diddy, saying the participants are given “s**tty contracts.”

Willie Taylor, another former member of the show, said the artists were set up for failure.

“Making The Band was [an] experience for sure,” Taylor wrote in a deleted  Instagram post, according to Vibe. “But the platform and contracts were all set up for the failure of hungry talents.”

Freddy, whose real name is Frederick Watson, continued to call out Diddy when he sat down for an interview with  The Neighborhood Talk.

“Puffy you ain’t never had a talent in your life, man. Somebody gave you opportunity to open the door and find talent,” he said. “His recipe to me has been signing poor people with a story … and get paid off people’s story. You didn’t come up like we came up … You got $900 million from standing on people’s back and exploiting people.”

According to Radar Online, Freddy disappeared from the public spotlight after Diddy let him go, following the third season of the show.