User blog comment:Plainblack/Blackbeard, the Enigma/@comment-10860731-20130902151249

Yeah, how he got the fruit is just intercepting the process, but how he ate the fruit... That's just his Yami Yami power that sucks up stuff. Doflamingo got a Devil Fruit as well, I don't think he got it from BB. It was also explained by Doflamingo's grunt about the process of DF reincarnations.