Tyson Beckford is finally opening up about his long-rumored beef with Sean "Diddy" Combs — and the story sounds like something out of an action movie.

The legendary model stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning, where he briefly peeled back the curtain on a tense — and violent — street confrontation that happened years ago between him and Diddy’s camp. While Tyson says he’s saving the full story for his upcoming book and production project Pretty Boy, he gave just enough details to leave jaws on the floor.

It all started on an ordinary day in New York City. Beckford says around the 21:20 mark that he was standing outside a tattoo shop on Fifth Avenue, casually chatting with a friend, when stylist Groovey Lew — who was affiliated with Diddy’s Bad Boy crew at the time — pulled up and asked Tyson to take a photo with a woman he was with.

“I said, ‘Yo, my man, I’m having a conversation,’” Beckford recalled. Things escalated quickly. “He started getting tough. I said, ‘Lew, don’t talk to me like that.’ Next thing you know, he swung on me.”

According to Beckford, that’s when the fight broke out — and he ended up “beating the brakes” off Groovey Lew. But the brawl left Tyson with a bloody head injury that required six stitches. He says an NYPD officer briefly stopped, asked what was going on, then rode off when both parties downplayed the altercation.

Then came the escalation.

Lew allegedly ran off and returned with Diddy and several others from the Bad Boy offices nearby. Beckford claims he was suddenly outnumbered — his supposed friend bailed on him — and tensions were through the roof.

“I said, ‘Look, I only got five [shells] in here,’” Beckford said, referencing the pistol-grip Mossberg shotgun he retrieved from his nearby Land Cruiser. “Puff, you going to get it first... I’m going to shower the rest of y’all with it.”

Ultimately, the situation didn’t turn deadly, but Beckford’s message was clear: he wasn’t someone to be messed with. “I could have saved the world a whole lot of trouble and took him out back then,” he said. “But then where would I be?”

When asked if he and Diddy have made peace since then, Tyson gave a diplomatic but distant response. “I ain’t seen the man in years... but yeah, he know — don’t mess with me.”

The tension between the two didn’t stop at street beef. Beckford also claims he sued Diddy after being shorted on a two-year deal with the Sean John clothing line. Beckford chalked the entire relationship up to a mismatch of character. “I was too straight for him, and he was just on whatever he was on,” he said. “Karma is where it’s at.”

While he remained coy on some of the deeper details, Beckford promised that the full story — along with more untold chapters of his life — will be revealed in his upcoming book and production deal, Pretty Boy.

“I’m doing the book,” he confirmed. “And all of that’s going to be in Pretty Boy. That's a cold scene- standing on Sixth Avenue with a shotgun.”

Source: The Breakfast Club