Samantha Bee Recalls Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'Instantly' Sanitizing His Hands After Their Handshake: 'So Rude'

Comedian Samantha Bee is reflecting on a past encounter with Sean “Diddy” Combs she says was “so rude” in the wake of his arrest.

On an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast with Bee and Daily Beast COO Joanna Coles that aired on Thursday, Sept. 26, Bee, 54, recalled meeting the music mogul “ages and ages ago” at the Democratic National Convention — and how he “immediately” sanitized his hands after she reached out for a shake.

The political commentator said she was standing in a cordoned-off area with cameras and a producer, and was flagging down people to interview when Combs, 54, entered the room with a man she believes was Fonzworth Bentley, his former assistant.

“I went up to them, and it was an area where you would expect to be interviewed, so it wasn’t outrageous for me to approach with a camera and a very polite question,” she recalled. “So I went up to him and I said, ‘Would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions?’ He seemed very taken aback, his voice was soft. He was like, ‘I think that’s OK.’”

Bee thanked the star for his time, and reached out to give him a handshake — but after doing so, Combs was quick to sanitize.

“I shook his hand and then he immediately, like, instantly, turned to his attendant, held his hands out helplessly, and his attendant squirted copious amounts of Purell into his hands,” she said. “Then he softly rubbed his hands together to extinguish whatever microbes I had put on his hands, and it was so rude. It was actually so rude.”

She continued, “I do understand that, you know, you shake a lot of people’s hands and your hands feel dirty, but you don’t typically need to sanitize while the person is standing before you, expressing your disgust. And it occurred to me in the light of all these freak-offs that it’s always the germaphobes who want to go home and recreate [Roman emperor] Caligula every Tuesday afternoon.”

Combs was indicted on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution on Sept. 17. His indictment centers around “freak offs,” which prosecutors have described as elaborate sex performances that he arranged. Women were allegedly forced or coerced into participating with male sex workers, sometimes for multiple days, according to the indictment.

Among the “freak off” supplies found in his homes during raids in March were drugs and over 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.

Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, is currently being held in federal custody as he awaits trial, and his lawyer Marc Agnifilo recently said that the star wants to testify.

“I don’t know that I could keep him off the stand,” Agnifilo told TMZ. “I think he is very eager to tell his story."

Combs is next due in court in early October. He is currently in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Sources tells PEOPLE he is currently housed in the same area of the facility as disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.