Aubrey O’Day Says She Was Fired From Danity Kane for ‘Not Participating Sexually’ With Diddy; Struggles to Recall Alleged Assault: ‘I Don’t Even Know if I Was Raped and I Don’t Want to Know’
Aubrey O’Day, who was picked to be in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ girl group Danity Kane during the third season of “Making the Band,” has joined the voices speaking about the rap mogul’s alleged pattern of abuse during his time in the music industry in the just-released Netflix docuseries “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.”
O’Day began telling her story by saying how she was treated as a member of the Danity Kane. “Diddy made it clear that I was ‘the looker,’” O’Day said. “I remember that phrase a lot. He was separating me and there was a different set of expectations from me, and I just naturally float into the grooming.”
When asked when she thought her collaboration with Combs “crossed the line of becoming sexual,” O’Day said, “There are emails with pictures of his penis.” She read one of his emails out loud, which included passages like, “‘I don’t wanna just fuck you. I wanna turn you out. I can see you being with some motherfucker that you tell what to do. I make my woman do what I tell her to do, and she loves it. I just want — and like — to do things different. I’mma finish watching this porn and finish masturbating. I’ll think of you, happy face. If you change your mind and get ready to do what I say, hit me. Happy face. God bless, Diddy. God is the greatest.’
“This is your boss at your work sending you that e-mail,” she continued. “What happens in real life to anyone else? Your boss gets fired. Six months later, I was fired. I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually, but I also found out later that [fellow Danity Kane member] Dawn [Richard] and Puff were recording a different project. I was the star of the show, and Puff needed to move that entire audience over to a new project.”
When asked about individual accusations in “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” Combs’ legal counsel sent a statement to Variety, writing, “We’re not going to comment on individual claims being repeated in the documentary. Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years. Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they’re simply not true. The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate matters through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production.” When asked specifically about O’Day’s allegations in the docuseries, a representative for Combs did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Combs’ team also released a longer statement about the project overall here.
Later in the series, O’Day said she was informed of an affidavit that was received during the flood of civil lawsuits filed against Combs. In it, a woman alleges that she accidentally walked into a room where O’Day was “sprawled out on a leather couch, looking very inebriated. She was naked from the bottom half, and she had something over her top. Puff Daddy was penetrating in her vagina, and there was another stalky light-skinned man with his penis in her mouth.”
After reading the affidavit on camera, O’Day said she is conflicted because, “I didn’t have a recollection of this.” She also stated that “I didn’t drink like that at all — I don’t drink at all, it’s never been an issue with me.”
“Does this mean I was raped?” O’Day asked. “Is that what this means? I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want to know. I don’t want to find out any more that that woman has to say. If she made it up, I would be compelled to take her the fuck down. You realize the burden that that puts on my soul for the past year, which is if I expose one victim who’s got a civil lawsuit, that gives Diddy and his legal team credit to take down everybody else as potential liars. Says Aubrey O’Day! It goes right back on my shoulders, just like that. The weight of that man and his bullshit … I will never get up from under it.”
