‘I realized my life was in danger’

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ personal assistant David James said he resigned after the Bad Boy Records founder once brought him to try to confront rival Suge Knight — all while packing three guns.

“I was really shook up by it,” James told the jury. “It was the first time being Mr. Combs’ assistant where I realized my life was in danger.”

James earlier that evening encountered Suge Knight while picking up food with Combs’ security guard D-Roc at Mel’s drive-in diner in Los Angeles in mid-November 2008.

“That’s motherf–king Suge Knight,” James recalled D-Roc telling him.

D-Roc told Suge Knight — the head of rival music production company Death Row Records, whose real name is Marion Knight Jr. — he was “Diddy’s boy” before Knight responded, “What are you doing in my city?,” James testified.

“S–t, man, just out here getting money,” James said D-Roc responded.

Then four SUVs pulled into the parking lot and someone handed Knight a gun, James told the jurors.

D-Roc and James went back to Combs’ place, got in his Escalade armed with three guns and headed back to the diner, driving in eerie silence, James said.

“Mr. Combs had three handguns on his lap,” James said.

But when they arrived, Knight and his crew were no longer there.

James said the incident prompted him to give his six months’ notice, to allow for someone else to get trained. He left the company by 2009.