Justin Bieber and P. Diddy discuss teenager's secretive relationship with 'Big Brother Puff' in resurfaced video

In a clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2011, Justin Bieber and P Diddy sat side by side while P Diddy spoke about Bieber , saying he is like “a little brother”.

Recently, all eyes have been on the Bad Boys Records producer given the federal allegations against him for sex trafficking - among other crimes.

Rumored mentee and old friend, Justin Bieber , has not yet spoken out about Diddy’s allegations, though he was spotted looking gaunt out and about this week . But, in a 2011 clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live! P Diddy speaks highly of Bieber, the two discussing their friendship despite the 15 year age gap between them.

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Kimmel asks the two the nature of their friendship, and if they are in the process of making music together.

“I think that we’ve become friends in a strange way,” P Diddy responds. “To a lot of us he is like a little brother…he is somebody that we definitely have our arms around and we want to protect him because he is such genuinely a nice person besides his talent.”

“He is one of the greatest kids that you could ever know,” P Diddy added. The two then shake hands and point at each other, smiling.

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When Justin Bieber jokes that the rapper got him a Lamborghini. Jimmy asks Diddy “When is that coming, that Lamborghini?” and the rapper has a now chilling response.

“He knows better than to be talking about the things that he does with big brother Puff on national television,” Diddy said.

Many are wondering what the pop star has to say about recent allegations as he and the rapper were spotted hanging out on multiple occasions during his rise to fame as a teenager.

“The last thing Justin wants to do is relive or even discuss his complicated friendship with Diddy,” an insider reveals to In Touch . “But he’s finally breaking his silence to his friends about his nightmare experience and the private hell it’s caused him.”