Hip hop star Sean “Diddy” Combs has broken his silence three days after the death of his former partner Kim Porter, with whom he had three children.
Ms Porter, 47, was Mr Combs’s partner for 13 years.
Emergency services were called to her home around noon last Thursday, according to TMZ, and her cause of death is still under investigation.
According to reports, she had recently been unwell and was prescribed antibiotics.
On Twitter, Mr Combs wrote: “For the last three days I’ve been trying to wake up out of this nightmare. But I haven’t. I don’t know what I’m going to do without you baby. I miss you so much. Today I’m going to pay tribute to you, I’m going to try and find the words to explain our unexplainable relationship.”
A video posted alongside the tribute on social media featured the couple expressing their love for one another.
“We were more than best friends, we were more than soulmates,” Mr Combs tweeted.
Reports surfaced on Friday that model and actress Kim Porter – a former longtime girlfriend to rap mogul Diddy and mother to three of his children – had died, aged 47.
Figures in the hip hop community have been paying tribute and offering condolences after a spokesperson for Diddy – real name Sean Combs – confirmed the death on Thursday.
No further details about the death were given.
Rapper Missy Elliot was among those paying tribute on Twitter, saying her “heart just aches so much 4 her children”.
