Kim Porter was a long-time partner of Sean “Diddy” Combs. The pair were together for 13 years before breaking up in 2007, but they remained co-parents to their four children. Porter was the mother of Christian Combs, and twin daughters D’Lila Combs and Jessie Combs. She was also the mother of Quincy Taylor Brown, whose biological father is singer Al B. Sure, and whom Diddy adopted. Porter, a former model and actor, was adamant about making it clear that she left Diddy after he admitted to impregnating another woman. “I wanted to be dramatic,” she explained to Essence shortly after the breakup. However, Porter also detailed how she stayed on good terms with her former boyfriend. “He still calls me everyday and we talk. There’s no ill feeling or ‘I can’t stand you, I hate you, don’t call,'” she told the outlet.

The duo continued to co-parent until Porter’s tragic death in November 2018 when she was found dead in bed from lobar pneumonia. Just weeks before her passing, one of Porter’s last Instagram posts was a group shot of Diddy and his kids.

After sharing four children together, and many years as both a couple and friends, Diddy was understandably emotional following Porter’s death. “Mother’s Day is going to hurt,” he told People in May 2019, just before the first Mother’s Day after Porter’s passing. “Honestly, anybody that has lost a mother or lost a soulmate — it takes time,” he added. The bulk of Diddy’s kids were shared with Porter, but not his oldest child.