Sean “Diddy” Combs told the judge overseeing his sex trafficking case he was “a little nervous” as jury selection in his long-awaited trial began on Monday, May 5.

Combs was in federal court in Manhattan Monday as prospective jurors began facing the disgraced rap mogul whose freedom they will deliberate on. More than 600 potential jurors filled out questionnaires.

At one point, Combs asked Judge Arun Subramanian if he could have a quick bathroom break, which was initially denied.

Combs — dressed in a blue blazer and bearing gray hair and beard — then told the judge “I’m sorry, your honor, I’m a little nervous today.” Subramanian then granted him a two-minute break to relieve himself.

The Bad Boy Records founder is facing charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty, but if convicted, he could face up to life in prison.

Combs was arrested in Manhattan in September and indicted by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

The indictment centers around alleged “freak offs,” which prosecutors claim were “elaborate and produced sex performances” involving coerced women and male sex workers that Combs allegedly orchestrated.

Combs’ defense team has maintained that the sexual encounters were consensual.

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Cassie Ventura, Combs’ ex, is expected to testify during the trial, PEOPLE previously reported.

In the indictment, prosecutors referenced surveillance video from a Los Angeles hotel appearing to show Combs assaulting Ventura.

Jurors were also asked if they were familiar with people on a list of hundreds of names that included major celebrities, including Kanye West, Mike Myers, Michael B. Jordan and Kid Cudi. It’s not clear how they will come up in the trial nor if any will be called as witnesses.

Combs has been incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest.

In exclusive video obtained by Page Six, Sydney Sweeney was spotted hanging out with Machine Gun Kelly in Las Vegas on Saturday. The newly-single actress could be seen hugging and getting close to the 35-year-old rocker, who recently welcomed his second child and first with ex Megan Fox. MGK and Sweeney were seen talking off-and-on during the opening of the brand new Palm Tree Beach Club at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas with Tao Hospitality Group. Sweeney was later seen having fun with “White Lotus” actor Patrick Schwarzenegger at the same event. Jessica Alba was also spotted nearby enjoying the event.

• In the May 4 episode of Sister Wives, the Brown family shares the heartbreaking details behind Garrison Brown’s death
• Garrison, the son of Janelle and Kody Brown, died of suicide in March 2024
• His older sister Madison Brush said that she’d been trying to convince him to move near her in North Carolina prior to his death

Garrison Brown’s loved ones wanted a different future for him prior to his death. 

The son of Janelle Brown and her ex Kody Brown died by suicide in March 2024 and on Sunday’s episode of Sister Wives, the family opened up about the painful experience of learning of Garrison’s death and the events leading up to it. 

Garrison’s older sister, Madison Brush, and her husband, Caleb Brush, shared that they’d urged Garrison to move out of Flagstaff, Ariz., across the country to where they live in North Carolina. 

“I was trying to get him to move out here,” Madison shared during her confessional interview. “And so every step that we get closer to it, we talked a lot about that.”

“We almost had him here too,” Caleb said of his brother-in-law. “He was almost coming.”

Madison concluded, “I think he was just so deep in.”

The family recalled learning the news that Garrison had taken his own life after his younger brother Gabriel Brown found him dead in his apartment. Janelle called Maddie to tell her, and she recounted the horrifying experience of sharing the news with her siblings.  

“There’s a few moments in your life that I feel like alter your brain chemistry, and I definitely feel like calling siblings that a sibling had died definitely alters your brain chemistry,” Maddie said. 

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Janelle now lives in North Carolina to be close to Maddie and her four children. Together, the two are opening the Taeda Farms flower farm in North Carolina. 

She shared that she had been in touch with Garrison on the day of his death, opening up about his struggles with alcohol toward the end of his life. 

“I don’t know what happened,” Janelle said through tears. “He was never a drinking kid. He didn’t like the taste of it. And he started to drink during COVID and something happened in this last year and it really just got him.” 

The TLC star said that she and others in their family had reached out to Garrison to help amid his struggles. 

“We had offered him all the love, all the support, all the help, all the resources,” she shared. “I don’t know what happened that night he did that because he’s had other nights like this where he would drink and then pass out and he would go kind of radio silent, but he’d be back in the morning.”

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.