Diddy Caught Ingesting at Fort Dix

11/8 2:35 PM PT — Diddy‘s household — which runs his official X account — has launched the next assertion unequivocally denying our story.

3:38 PM PT — Diddy’s household spokesperson Juda Engelmayer tells TMZ … “Mr. Combs is in his first week at FCI Fort Dix and is focused on adjusting, working on himself, and doing better each day. As with any high-profile individual in a new environment, there will be many rumors and exaggerated stories throughout his time there—most of them untrue. We ask that people give him the benefit of the doubt, the privacy to focus on his personal growth with grace and purpose.”

Diddy’s sobriety journey took a detour in lockup this week … TMZ has realized he was consuming behind bars and acquired in some hassle with jail officers.

Sources with information inform TMZ … Diddy had some do-it-yourself alcohol in Fort Dix, the low-security jail the place he is doing time. We’re instructed the alcohol is made from Fanta, sugar and apples, which inmates give two weeks to ferment into an alcoholic substance.

We’re instructed Diddy acquired caught by jail officers and jail officers deliberate to maneuver him from his outdated unit into a brand new one. Two sources inform TMZ jail officers have now reversed their resolution and Diddy will keep put.

You might recall Diddy made a giant deal about his sobriety to the decide previous to his sentencing final month … telling the courtroom he was sober for the primary time in 25 years. He additionally stated he’d misplaced his means as a result of substances.

He wrote in a letter to the Decide, “The outdated me died in jail and a brand new model of me was reborn. Jail will change you or kill you — I select to reside.”

We shared footage of Diddy hanging round the New Jersey jail yard final week, and he gave the impression to be the lifetime of the proverbial occasion — laughing and smiling whereas capturing the you-know-what along with his fellow inmates.

Diddy was convicted on two counts of violating the Mann Act again in July and acquired a 50-month sentence in October. He was transferred to Fort Dix final week.