Porter, 47, passed away in November after contracting double pneumonia while battling the flu.
In the May issue of Essence Magazine, which Diddy and his children are the cover stars, the 49-year-old disclosed what Porter told him before she died and how that defined his reaction.
“Three days before she passed, she wasn’t feeling well,” Combs explains. “She had the flu, and she sent the kids over to my house so they wouldn’t get sick.”
“One night I was checking on her, and she was like, ‘Puffy, take care of my babies.’ She actually said that to me before she died.”
According to him, those words stuck with him on the morning of 15 November after news broke that Porter had been found dead at her home in Toluca Lake, California.
“I jumped into mommy mode,” Combs tells Essence. “I sent people in every direction to try to make sure the kids would not hear about it on social media or the news.”
“I had to get to the girls’ school and find Quincy, who was on set in Atlanta. Christian was on a plane, and I had his phone disconnected so he wouldn’t read it in the air,” Combs explains to the outlet.
