Diddy’s former protégé Aubrey O’Day recounts bombshell claims about horrifying experience with jailed rapper

Aubrey O’Day, singer and former member of the girl group Danity Kane, is sharing new claims about her experience working with Sean “Diddy” Combs in the Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

The singer and TV personality was chosen to be mentored by the currently imprisoned rapper on his reality series, Making the Band, in 2004. She has now shared a behind-the-scenes account of the opportunity.

“Diddy made it clear that I was ‘the looker’. 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,” she began her story in the newly released docuseries.

She also read aloud sexually explicit e-mails from the music mogul while responding to the question about when her interaction with him “crossed the line of becoming sexual.”

Among several blunt admissions, Diddy had written to O’Day, “I make my woman do what I tell her to do, and she loves it. I just want — and like — to do things different.”

“This is your boss at your work sending you that e-mail,” the ex-band member added. “What happens in real life to anyone else? Your boss gets fired. Six months later, I was fired.”

While she admitted that she had “absolutely felt” she “was fired for not participating sexually”, she later discovered that Dawn Richard, her bandmate at the time, was developing a separate project with Diddy then.

“I was the star of the show, and Puff needed to move that entire audience over to a new project,” she claimed.

Aubrey O’Day further shared that she had “no recollection” of a sexual assault incident with Sean “Diddy” Combs, which she only found out through an affidavit filed by another woman who had witnessed the episode.

“Does this mean I was raped? 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,” she said. 

However, she added that despite not entirely believing the witness statement, she chose not to go after the woman because “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.”

Sean Combs: The Reckoning, a four-part docuseries released on Netflix December 2 and executive produced by 50 Cent, explores “a staggering examination of the media mogul, music legend, and convicted offender.”