NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs was a total diva when he appeared as the “Saturday Night Live” musical guest and “demanded” treatment generally reserved for presidential candidates, a former cast member related.

Former “SNL” player Ana Gasteyer recalled that the embattled Harlem-born mogul, 55, currently at Brooklyn MDC awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, was one of “the five a–holes” who appeared during her 1996-2002 tenure on the NBC hit.

“You can tell like the five a–holes in the six years that I was there when they would be like, ‘So and so is in the building, everybody stay in your dressing rooms.’ Which is applicable if you’re a presidential candidate,” the “Mean Girls” actress, 57, told the “Las Culturistas” podcast this week. “But apart from that, really, it’s my house. For P. Diddy, he demanded a totally closed set.”

The Bad Boy Records founder didn’t just exude “the artifice of all that faux importance” when he “shut down the whole building,” though.

Gasteyer also recalled when fellow castmate Will Ferrell got into character as Ron from the Mango sketch to interrupt the rehearsal for Diddy’s “Come With Me.” The 1998 track samples Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”

“It is the greatest thing that’s ever happened because what a deserved person to have their ‘Kashmir’ moment interrupted by Ron,” said Gasteyer, who still has the control room video of the incident, which Combs “really did not roll with. … He was very uncomfortable.”

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