Sean “Diddy” Combs, once one of the most powerful moguls in the music industry, is facing one of the darkest chapters of his life. Convicted on two counts of transporting women to engage in prostitution, the 54-year-old rapper and producer wrote a letter to the court ahead of his sentencing hearing on Friday, pleading for leniency and sharing how God has changed his life behind bars.

“I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs,” Combs wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. “This has been the hardest two years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself.”

Prosecutors have asked for more than 11 years in prison, while his legal team is urging the judge to impose just 14 months. With sentencing looming, Diddy insists that his time in jail has transformed him—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

The rap star admitted in his letter that drugs, excess, and selfishness fueled his downfall. “I lost my way. I got lost in my journey. Lost in the drugs and the excess. My downfall was rooted in my selfishness. I have been humbled and broken to my core,” he said. “Jail is designed to break you mentally, physically and spiritually. Over the past year, there have been so many times that I wanted to give up. There have been some days I thought I would be better off dead. The old me died in jail, and a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you—I choose to live.”

Combs confessed he is free from drugs and alcohol “for the first time in 25 years” and credited God with giving him a second chance: “I thank God that I’m stronger, wiser, clean, clear and sober. God makes no mistakes.”

The former music mogul also addressed the most painful chapter of his personal life: his abuse of singer Cassie Ventura, his longtime girlfriend. “The scene and images of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my head daily,” Combs admitted. “I literally lost my mind. I was dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved. My domestic violence will always be a heavy burden that I will have to forever carry. The remorse, the sorrow, the regret, the disappointment, the shame.”

Combs noted that his regret deepened when he thought of his own daughters: “I honestly feel sorry for something that I couldn’t forgive someone else for: if they put their hands on one of my daughters. This is why it is so hard for me to forgive myself.”

Surveillance footage from a 2016 altercation at a Los Angeles hotel—showing Combs dragging Cassie down a hallway—was a central piece of evidence in the trial. While he was acquitted of the most serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges, the jury found him guilty of arranging prostitution.

In his letter, Diddy said he has undergone what he called a “spiritual reset.” “I can’t change the past, but I can change the future. I know that God put me here to transform me. Since incarceration, I have gone through a spiritual reset. I’m on a journey that will take time and hard work,” he wrote.

He asked Judge Arun Subramanian not to make him an example of scandal but of transformation: “I would ask Your Honor to make me an example of what a person can do if afforded a second chance. If you allow me to go home to my family, I promise I will not let you down and I will make you proud.”

On October 3rd, Judge Subramanian sentenced Sean “Diddy” Combs to 50 months in prison, fined him $500,000, and ordered five years of supervised release once he leaves prison.

During the sentencing, several members of Combs’ family were in tears, including his eldest daughter, while others looked to one another for comfort. Combs himself showed little emotion, only shaking his head as the judge spoke about the impact on Cassie Ventura and the children involved.

Before being led away by U.S. Marshals, Combs turned toward his family and tapped his heart. “I love you, I’m sorry,” he said softly. “I’ll be OK.”

Judge Subramanian encouraged the disgraced artist to make the most of his second chance. “Being a champion and uplifting Black and brown communities — that’s what you set out to do at the beginning of your career decades ago,” he told Combs. “Your letter said you lost your way, but there’s a true path to redemption here: what went wrong and what can be made right. I’m counting on you to make the most of that second chance.”

For Christians, Diddy’s words echo a hard truth: sin carries consequences, yet redemption is always possible through repentance. While courts must weigh justice for victims, believers are reminded that no one is beyond the reach of God’s grace. Combs admitted he has scars that will never fully heal, but he hopes his brokenness will become part of his testimony. “Pain became my teacher,” he wrote. “The old me died in jail, and a new version of me was reborn.”