Diddy’s long Bad Boy era

MEDIA personalities who covered Diddy for decades are recalling the disgraced music mogul’s questionable past.

Former “Extra” host Tanika Ray was a backup dancer for Diddy in the ’90s, and she posted on social media this week about a “horrific” experience from the era that she says made her steer clear of the Bad Boy Records founder for years. She wrote of her experiences, “I just knew to avoid him at all costs.”

Ray’s post came after Touré — a music journalist and creative director of media site TheGrio — relayed a relative’s experience with Diddy in an interview on MSNBC. He said that “10 or 12 years ago,” he knew Diddy “well enough to call him and say, ‘Hey, I need a favor . . . I have a family member who I want you to hire . . . as an intern.’ And he said yes.”

But, Touré claimed, the job with the flashy music man “stopped abruptly, like three or four months into it. I spoke to my family member, like, ‘What happened?’ And they wouldn’t say . . . Years later, they finally came out — and this is a male — and said that Puff had said, ‘Come home. Stay the night with me or the internship is over.’ ”

The former MTV2 host added that his relative responded to Diddy, “‘Absolutely not.’ And the internship ended.”

Touré’s revelation sparked Ray to post her own video, in which she said, “Oh yeah, you know, we all have stories . . . Seriously, we all have stories. Mine is horrific, and only five people know it, and I probably will never tell it.” She went on, responding to Touré’s interview, “But since then, I’ve been like, ‘Yup.’ ”

Ray added, “Mind you, I’ve then interviewed him many times.” Diddy, whose homes were raided by Homeland Security Monday [see Page 19], has adamantly denied a wave of abuse claims against him.

In other Diddy media news, sources told Page Six yesterday that the mystery buyer of his shares in Revolt TV is controversial former Essence CEO