Aubrey O’Day is alleging that her exit from Danity Kane was directly tied to refusing sexual advances from Diddy.
In Netflix’s new docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, O’Day recounts what she describes as a pattern of inappropriate behavior from the music mogul, dating back to her earliest days on Making the Band 3. O’Day says Combs immediately positioned her differently from her groupmates, calling her “the looker” and holding her to “a different set of expectations.” That, she says, created an environment where she “naturally float[ed] into the grooming.”
According to O’Day, the situation escalated when Combs began sending explicit emails. She reads one message aloud in the series, including lines such as: “I don’t wanna just fuck you. I wanna turn you out… I make my woman do what I tell her to do, and she loves it… If you change your mind and get ready to do what I say, hit me.”
She notes that the message ended with, “God bless, Diddy. God is the greatest.”
“This is your boss at your work sending you that email,” O’Day says in the docuseries. “What happens in real life to anyone else? Your boss gets fired.” Instead, she claims that six months later, she was the one pushed out. “I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually,” she says, adding that she later learned Diddy and fellow member Dawn Richard were working on another project, and cutting her allowed him to “move that entire audience” to his new venture.
Combs’ legal team declined to comment on O’Day’s specific allegations, but issued a broader statement to Variety criticizing the documentary as “one-sided” and driven by “longstanding personal grievances” and “financial motives.” They said Combs would not litigate the claims in the “biased” docuseries.
Elsewhere in the series, O’Day addresses an affidavit from a separate civil case in which a woman alleges she accidentally walked into a room where O’Day appeared unconscious and was being sexually assaulted by Combs and another man. O’Day says she has no memory of the incident and emphasized that she “didn’t drink like that at all.”
“Does this mean I was raped?” she asks in the documentary. “I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want to know.” She says the uncertainty has weighed heavily on her, not only personally, but because contradicting another accuser could be weaponized by Combs’ legal team. Combs has not responded to O’Day’s claims in the documentary.