Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was seen enjoying a cigarette in Miami after apologizing for beating up his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a recent video.

After apologizing on social media, the 54-year-old musician went for a walk wearing a white fisherman’s cap, a white T-shirt, shorts, and black sandals.

He donned a necklace with an image of his late father, Melvin Combs, who was fatally shot at the age of 33 in New York City while posing with a youngster.In October 2013, Combs opened up on Instagram about his father’s passing while working on a Revolt TV project.

In a preview clip for the TV show, the musical talent shared how he reconciled his life with his father’s.

‘My father was 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ed when I was three years old,’ he explained. ‘My dad was a hustler. He was a narcotics dealer. He was a hustler. So, from a young age, I learnt that there are only two options: death or imprisonment. It made me work even harder.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, 54, was pictured smoking a cigarette in his native Miami after breaking his silence after shocking video of him beating up his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura surfaced this week

In the aforementioned 2013 clip, Diddy said he didn’t ‘have a lot of memories’ of his late father and missed him and his presence as he was growing up, as he needed ‘to have someone to ask manly advice and just things that you would ask your father.’

Diddy said he also missed celebrating milestones with his father ‘that would make him proud.’

Diddy said he thinks his late father ‘played a role in’ his hustle en route to success and international stardom.

‘I think that even if we don’t know our parents, we still have their DNA in us,’ he said. ‘We have their genes. I have his hustler mentality, his hustler spirit, his drive, his determination. His swag. He’s gonna be on my mind a lot today. My father’s name was Melvin Combs and I’m Melvin’s son, Sean Combs.’

He wore a necklace with the image of his late father Melvin Combs, who was fatally shot at the age of 33 in New York City, posing next to a child

Diddy was seen out after he took to Instagram on Sunday morning to apologize, saying: ‘I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses.’

Looking into the camera, Diddy said: ‘So difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, sometimes you got to do that. I was f***ed up.

‘I mean I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses, my behavior in that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video, I’m disgusted.

He continued: ‘I was disgusted then when I did it, I am disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help, I got into going to therapy, going to rehab.

Combs in October of 2013 took to Instagram to detail the death of his father for the first time in conjunction with a Revolt TV project he’d been working on

Diddy said of his late father, ‘I learned early in life there’s only two ways out of that, dead or in jail. It made me work even harder’

Diddy said he needed ‘to have someone to ask manly advice and just things that you would ask your father’

Diddy said he also missed celebrating milestones with his father ‘that would make him proud’

Diddy said he thinks his late father ‘played a role in’ his hustle en route to success and international stardom

The musical artist said, ‘I think that even if we don’t know our parents, we still have their DNA in us. We have their genes’

He added, ‘I have his hustler mentality, his hustler spirit, his drive, his determination. His swag’

‘Had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry. But I am committed to be a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness, I’m truly sorry.’

Sources said Diddy went to rehab following the 2016 incident and continues to seek both therapy and spiritual work.

Diddy was seen lighting a cigarette as he walked outside in Miami Beach

The rapper was clad in a white fisherman’s hat with a white T-shirt and shorts and black sandals

Diddy was seen out after he took to Instagram on Sunday morning to apologize, saying: ‘I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses’

In the clip, Diddy looked into the camera and said, ‘So difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, sometimes you got to do that. I was f***ed up’

Diddy said in the clip, ‘I mean I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses, my behavior in that video is inexcusable’

The Grammy-winning musical artist said he ‘was disgusted then’ and is ‘disgusted now’ by his behavior in the widely-circulated clip

Diddy said he ‘sought out professional help’ and went to therapy and rehab after the incident

The hip-hop mogul was flanked by a pair of friends on the sunny day in South Florida

He was seen pointing at something in the distance on the daytime outing

Diddy said that he ‘had to ask God for his mercy and grace’ in the wake of his brutal attack on his former girlfriend

Diddy said that he is ‘truly sorry’ for his past actions but ‘not asking for forgiveness’

Diddy’s statement on Sunday drew criticism from Cassie’s attorney Meredith Firetog, who said in a statement that it reeked of selfishness

Firetog said that ‘Combs’ most recent statement is more about himself than the many people he has hurt’

Firetog pointed at Diddy’s immediate reaction after Cassie sued him last autumn

Firetog said that ‘when Cassie and multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday’

Firetog pointed that Diddy ‘was only compelled to “apologize” once his repeated denials were proven false’

The apology clip from Diddy was indicative of ‘his pathetic desperation’ as his life and career crumble around him, Firetog said

Two days after the attack, the pair appeared on the red carpet holding hands for the premiere of The Perfect Match.

‘The gut-wrenching video has only further confirmed the disturbing and predatory behavior of Mr. Combs,’ Cassie’s attorney Douglas Wigdor said in a statement to DailyMail.com this week.

Wigdor added, ‘Words cannot express the courage and fortitude that Ms. Ventura has shown in coming forward to bring this to light.’

Cassie sued Combs last November accusing him of raping her, beating her, forcing her to use drugs and have 𝓈ℯ𝓍 with other men while he watched.

In his own statement at the time, Diddy’s lawyer Ben Brafman said his settling the case was in no way an admission of guilt.

Diddy ‘vehemently denies these offensive and outrageous allegations,’ his attorney said at the time

Diddy’s lawyer said at the time of the settlement that the musical artist ‘unequivocally rejected’ Cassie’s ‘persistent demand of $30 million … as blatant blackmail’

Diddy’s attorney had said Cassie’s lawsuit was ‘riddled with baseless and outrageous lies’

The rapper took to Instagram on Sunday afternoon to apologize, saying ‘I hit rock bottom, but I make no excuses’

Sean Combs and Cassie Ventura attend the premiere of ‘The Perfect Match’  in Hollywood, California. Two days earlier Combs assaulted Ventura in a hotel hallway

Cassie is seen trying to flee in an elevator. Diddy, after chasing her down the hall, grabbed her by the back of the hoodie and threw her to the ground

Diddy is seen dragging Cassie back to their hotel room after collecting her bags

This is the former InterContinental hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, where Diddy allegedly attacked then girlfriend Cassie Ventura

The couple then made a second appearance on March 7, with Cassie wearing a different dress

Hylton suggested Diddy’s race played a role in the federal agent’s s actions during the raids

Exactly what precipitated the raids on Combs’ properties on March 25 has yet to be disclosed

The mother of two of Sean Diddy Combs’ sons, Misa Hylton, has shared footage of the aid in the rapper’s Los Angeles mansion, calling it an ‘overtly militarized force’

In the statement, Spacey, in what many believed to be an effort to pivot the discussion away from the damaging allegations, confirmed he was gay.

‘As those closest to me know,’ Spacey said, ‘I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man.’

The following month, in November of 2017, former Today show anchor Matt Lauer acknowledged a degree of wrongdoing after he was fired by NBC following allegations of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual misconduct.

‘There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions,’ Lauer said. ‘To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry. As I am writing this I realize the depth of the damage and disappointment I have left behind at home and at NBC.

‘Some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly.’