Shyne breaks his silence on Diddy's arrest, says the fallen mogul 'ruined his life'

Shyne, who's the Leader of the Opposition in Belize and a former rapper who was signed to Diddy's label Bad Boy, spoke out for the first time about the fallen mogul's arrest.

Diddy was taken into custody on Monday night and charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, and transporting prostitutes. Yesterday, Shyne laid out how he feels about Diddy's legal woes at a press conference while detailing his true relationship with him.

He also brought up being sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2001 after firing a weapon inside a New York club while defending his former boss, who got into an altercation.

"When I was an 18-year-old kid just wanting to do nothing other than make my mother proud and make Belize proud and do what all of us want to do: be recognized for our talent and take over the world, I was defending him and he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me," said Shyne. "He pretty much sent me to prison. So that is the context by which you must always describe that relationship. Yes, I forgave. I moved on. But let us not pretend."

After that Shyne said he worked with Diddy at a charity event in London to help impoverished youth and was in talks with him to give scholarships and financial investments to Belize. But the rapper-turned politician made it clear that he didn't have a personal relationship with him.

"This was not someone who I vacationed with and who he and I enjoyed this great, intimate relationship of brotherhood," Shyne explained. "This is someone who destroyed my life and who I forgave and who I moved on for the better interest of Belize."

"I would not deny attempting to bring the investment to Belize and to bring the contributions to education to Belize," he continued. "But don't distort it as if he and I were [close]. This is someone that destroyed my life."

At the same time, however, Shyne said he takes no pleasure in seeing Diddy in so much trouble.