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Sean “Diddy” Combs “requested” the closed “SNL” set

Sean “Diddy” Combs “requested” the closed “SNL” set

Ana Gasteyer criticized Sean “Diddy” Combs’ behavior on Saturday Night Live in 1998. Getty Images

Nearly 30 years after Sean “Diddy” Combs appeared as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” Ana Gasteyer is calling him out.

The comedian labeled the embattled music mogul an “a-hole” for allegedly demanding a “completely closed set” during his 1998 appearance.

“He, of course, shut down the whole building,” Gasteyer, 57, he said on the “Las Culturistas” podcast. Wednesday. “You could tell the five-holes in the six years I was there, when they would say, ‘So-and-so is in the building, everybody stay in your locker rooms!’

The comedian claimed the rapper “shut the whole building down.” Getty Images
She joked that this was only “applicable” to presidential candidates. CJ Rivera/Invision/AP

While the “Mean Girls” actress called the behavior “applicable” to presidential candidates, she joked, “Other than that, it really is my house.”

She also described her co-star Will Ferrell making Combs, now 55, “very uncomfortable” during his rehearsal.

“They were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be so funny if Ron just walked in?'” she recalled in the episode, referring to Ferrell’s character. “And he did.”

Combs was a musical guest at the time. Saturday Night Live/Youtube
The rapper performed “Come With Me.” Saturday Night Live/Youtube

Gasteyer recalled, “He came down the stairs and walked right in. And I have the video from the control room where Sean Combs is rapping “Come With Me” and behind Ron is walking around looking very disoriented.

“It’s the greatest thing that ever happened, because what a deserving person to have their ‘Kashmir’ moment interrupted by Ron,” she continued.

After clarifying that the rapper “really didn’t accept” the hiatus, the “Suburgatory” star slammed his “fake importance.”

Will Ferrell interrupted Combs’ rehearsal while in character. Saturday Night Live/Youtube
Combs “didn’t roll with it,” according to Gasteyer. Saturday Night Live/Youtube

She added: “What will happen? You’re going to go into the studio and say, ‘I’m in the studio. I work here.’”

Combs’ team has yet to respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

Ferrell, 57, previously spoke about the moment with Combs during an event in January 2020 interview with Vulture.

Ferrell talked about the tense moment of 2020. NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Combs was arrested in September and faces multiple sexual assault lawsuits. Getty Images

“Someone said, ‘Ron should go on stage,’ and before everyone turned to see, I sprinted out the door,” the actor said.

Combs’ behavior was analyzed in the middle his recent legal troublesfrom Grammy winners The arrest in September to numerous lawsuits against him for sexual assault.

Combs has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.