The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
Dirty Diddy Details Overload, Bogus Claims About Drinking Exposed, and Terrible Advice Columns
Fri, 23 May 2025
Maureen walks through the latest wave of Diddy trial dirt with Daily Mail Correspondent, Kayla Brantley, as more of his depraved behavior is revealed on the witness stand. Then, back by popular demand, Maureen reads through the NYT's laughable advice column, offering her own cutting answers along the way. Plus, a roundtable discussion with "Drunk" author Edward Slingerland and Harvard Medical School Professor, Dr. Kenneth Mukamal on everything you need to know about consuming alcohol, as we head into the first official weekend of summer.
Chapter 1: What scandal is breaking in the Diddy trial?
Hey, welcome to the Friday edition of The Nerve. And here in the States, we are going into our first holiday weekend together. It's a milestone. I'm Maureen Callahan, your host, and I am here to serve you, to serve all of you troublemakers a fresh batch of scandal, sin, celebrity gossip, plus audience emails and what we call real talk about fake people.
We also have a great segment about what we are now told. I think this is the perfect segment going into a big holiday weekend to kick off the summer. So we are now being told that the perils of drinking alcohol are so grave that even a single drop will kill you. Okay. Now these are warnings I have been skeptical of since they were leveled towards us. And you know, It may be the Irish in me, okay?
But we are going to have a smart, nuanced, challenging conversation about this with two experts who I am so excited to have on the show and I know you guys are going to love. But first, we are wrapping up week two of the Diddy trial here in Manhattan. And the past few days have seen bombshell after bombshell. So we have got an incredible, incredible expert to break all of this down.
Kayla Brantley is a correspondent for the Daily Mail, where I call them twice a week. She's been in the courtroom since the beginning, and she is also the host of The Mail's incredible podcast, The Trials of Diddy. We are so happy to have her. Welcome, Kayla. Thanks for coming to The Nerve. Hey, Maureen. Thanks for having me.
So give me your post-traumatic stress disorder level on a scale of 1 to 10, now that you've been in there two weeks.
Yeah, you know, I'd say we're maybe at a six. I think I'm able to keep it together a little bit. But it's just been crazy. Like you said, bombshell after bombshell. Today we had Kid Cudi on the stand. I mean, that's what you expect from a high-profile case like this.
Yes, we have to get into Kid Cudi's testimony. For any of the audience members who are not familiar, he was a fairly prominent rapper. And he and Diddy, I think they were fighting over Cassie. He had told this to the New York Times, but we got a lot more detail today, that his Porsche, which I believe is how you pronounce it. I'm not trying to be a pretentious asshole.
I just think that's how it is pronounced, was blown up. Like, a Molotov cocktail. He was pretty sure Diddy had done it. And also, we got more detail, like, Diddy broke into the house and, like, locked up his dog. Like, please, Kayla, explain. Explain.
Yeah, well, exactly like you just said, Maureen. I mean... This was a bombshell testimony. We first heard about this blown up Porsche back in Cassie's lawsuit in 2023. And that was a bombshell in and of itself. But today was the first time that we really heard that confirmed out of Kid Cudi's mouth to say, yeah, actually, Diddy broke into my home in December of 2011.
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Chapter 2: What were the bombshells from Kid Cudi's testimony?
Chapter 3: How is alcohol consumption viewed this summer?
A burqa, a veil. I'm not sure those details, but he was covering his face, so he didn't know it was Diddy, but it was a naked man carrying lubricant. Basically... Being the director and then directing what he wanted to see, you know, with the Punisher and Cassie while he masturbated and watched. So that was after the first time he left with about twelve hundred dollars in cash in his hand.
And then he comes back. He's in the hotel room. He always had a nice hotel, a lot of times staying at a Trump hotel in New York. And he turns on the TV and sees that the hotel TV has a welcome sign that says, welcome Sean Combs. And that's when he realized who had hired him.
Whoa. You know, the Trump International that I had read that that figured prominently and that did he like to stay there? And, you know, Jay-Z name check that song very famously. The lyric was something like, I'm at the Trump International. Ask for me. Like, I didn't know it was such a big thing with the hip hop community. Yeah. Crazy.
I guess so.
I live in fear that I have stayed in a hotel room where one of these free coughs happened, quite frankly. And I think a lot of Americans are feeling the same. Now, I also wanted to ask you, so the feds, there was more testimony this week or it was presented in court by the prosecution that Diddy was, it may have been the manager or the PA, like he was high all day, every day.
He was on every kind of drug you could imagine. And also, aside from the drugs and the lube, the feds also picked up here and there some AR-15s.
Yeah. Yeah. So we did get photos from the Miami raid on his house. And there were photos of AR-15s. There were photos of seven inch heels, women's heels, about 13 pairs, I believe. Rope, you know, you looked in the dresser, in the closet, tons of baby oil, lubricant. What was most intriguing to me was in Diddy's bathroom, there were affirmations written on the mirror. Like what?
Different handwritings. Love was one of them. I'm going to have to look up my notes, but it was ridiculous.
Was it like the stuff you would see on like Instagram, like from self-help people?
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