Diddy’s former backup dancer Tanika Ray says she ‘just knew to avoid him at all costs’ following ‘horrific’ incident… after dual raids on the rap mogul’s mansions

Tanika Ray, who was formerly a backup dancer for Diddy, claimed to have experienced a ‘horrific’ incident while in his employ in the mid-1990s in an Instagram post from Wednesday.

The former Extra host, 52, made the admission after seeing the journalist and TV commentator Touré, 53, reveal on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show that he was at one time on good enough terms with Diddy to ask the record label head to hire his relative as an intern.

However, he went on to claim that the rapper subsequently fired the male family member after allegedly asking him to spend the night with him.

The new claims involving Diddy (real name: Sean Combs) come after Homeland Security agents raided both his Miami and Los Angeles mansions on Monday in what is reportedly related to a ‘sex trafficking probel.

In a caption to her reaction video, Ray wrote: ‘I just knew to avoid [Diddy] at all costs…

‘Yes, I danced for him and kept my space. I interviewed him for his projects and kept my space,’ she continued. ‘Nothing that is happening is surprising.’

During Touré’s appearance on Joy Reid’s program, he claimed of Diddy that ‘I know this man well enough to call him and say, “Hey, I need a favor.”‘  

‘This might have been 10 or 12 years ago that I called him and said, “Hey, I have a family member, who I want you to hire them as an intern.’ And he said, “Yes,”‘ he claimed.

However, the job that could have seemingly helped Touré’s family member get a photo into the entertainment industry mysteriously dried up after only ‘three or four months.’

Touré said he quizzed his family member about what had happened and why the internship had ended so abruptly, but they allegedly refused to speak about the matter.

But the journalist went on to claim that ‘years later, they finally came out — and this is a male — and said that Puff had said, “Come home. Stay the night with me or the internship is over.”‘

He added that his family member claimed they told Diddy ‘absolutely not’ in response to the inappropriate request.

‘And the internship ended,’ he said. 

Something about Touré’s story spoke to Ray, and she reposted a clip of the video before sharing her own video on Instagram addressing her time working for Diddy.

‘You know, we all have stories,’ Ray said while filming herself in closeup after letting Touré’s story play out. ‘Seriously, we all have stories.’

‘Mine is horrific and only five people know it, and I probably will never tell it,’ she continued.

‘But since then, I’ve been like, “Yup,”‘ she added.

Ray added text over her video in which she wrote that her ‘besties’ would never tell her story involving Diddy unless she came forward herself first.

But she was weary about coming forward, as she expected to be ‘victimized’ repeatedly if she did so.

Ray mused about one day writing a book about her experiences in Hollywood, but she blasted critics who complain about women not coming forward sooner about their negative experiences with powerful men.

‘We just want to live,’ she said defiantly. 

‘We want to be happy, and we really just want to forget the trauma. So, there’s that,’ Ray added.  

‘Now if someone needs to pile on my story, give me a call. But I think Cassie got it!!’ she added in text, referring to the singer Cassie, who had dated Diddy in the past.

Cassie (real name Cassandra Ventura) sued Combs for rape on November 16, 2023, claiming he abused her, plied her with drugs and filmed her having sex with male prostitutes while they dated from 2005 to 2019.

Diddy was adamant in his denials of his ex’s claims, but he settled the lawsuit just one day after it was filed for an undisclosed sum.