Aubrey O’Day has plenty of memories of Sean “Diddy” Combs from her time on Making the Band, but there’s one alleged incident that she doesn’t recall.
In the new Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, O’Day, 41, reacted to another woman’s claim that she witnessed Diddy, 56, and another man sexually assaulting O’Day in 2005. The woman swore in an affidavit that she walked in on the alleged crime and saw O’Day “sprawled out on a leather couch looking very inebriated.”
While reading from the affidavit on camera, O’Day noted that she “didn’t drink like that at all” during that time, adding, “I don’t drink at all; it’s never been an issue with me.”
In the statement, the unnamed woman asserted, “I am 100 percent certain that the woman I saw was Aubrey O’Day.”
O’Day, who starred on Diddy’s MTV series Making the Band 3 as part of the girl group Danity Kane, said she has no memory of what the woman described.
“Even after I told her I didn’t have a recollection of this, I said, ‘Could she be making a mistake?’ I asked in every way I possibly could think of, [and] she was certain,” O’Day said. “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 what that woman has to say.”
O’Day noted that she would want to retaliate if the woman were lying about the incident, but she also wouldn’t want to give Diddy’s legal team the opportunity to discredit the stories of other alleged victims.
“If she made it up, I would be compelled to take her the f*** down,” the singer explained. “And 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.”
O’Day is one of several former Diddy collaborators who spoke out in Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which 50 Cent executive produced. She has previously claimed that her ex-boss sexually harassed her, but she did not accuse him of the sexual assault described in the woman’s affidavit.
As she explained in the docuseries, O’Day alleged that Diddy sent her sexually explicit emails before eventually firing her from Danity Kane in 2008.
“There are emails with pictures of his penis,” O’Day told the camera before reading from one of the alleged messages. “This is your boss at your work sending you that email.”
She went on to say she “absolutely felt” that he fired her for “not participating sexually” before she found out that Diddy was planning to form another group, Diddy – Dirty Money, with her Danity Kane bandmate Dawn Richard and Kalenna Harper.
Richard, 42, has leveled her own accusations at Diddy, filing a lawsuit against him in September 2024 just days before his arrest on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Diddy denied Richard’s allegations and subsequently pleaded not guilty to the federal charges against him. When Diddy’s trial began in May, Richard served as a witness for the prosecution.
In July, a jury found Diddy guilty on the two transportation counts but acquitted him of the other charges. In October, he was sentenced to 50 months in prison plus five years of supervised release. He was transferred to New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix on October 30 to serve out the remainder of his prison term.
Richard’s lawsuit, meanwhile, is still pending.
Diddy slammed the docuseries in a statement shared with Us Weekly via his spokesperson on Monday, December 1.
“Netflix’s so-called ‘documentary’ is a shameful hit piece. Today’s GMA teaser confirms that Netflix relied on stolen footage that was never authorized for release,” the statement read. “As Netflix and CEO Ted Sarandos know, Mr. Combs has been amassing footage since he was 19 to tell his own story, in his own way. It is fundamentally unfair, and illegal, for Netflix to misappropriate that work. Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalize every minute of Mr. Combs’ life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalize on a never-ending media frenzy. If Netflix cared about truth or about Mr. Combs’s legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context — including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing. No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party.”
The statement continued, “It is equally staggering that Netflix handed creative control to Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson — a longtime adversary with a personal vendetta who has spent too much time slandering Mr. Combs. Beyond the legal issues, this is a personal breach of trust. Mr. Combs has long respected Ted Sarandos and admired the legacy of Clarence Avant. For Netflix to give his life story to someone who has publicly attacked him for decades feels like an unnecessary and deeply personal affront. At minimum, he expected fairness from people he respected.”
Director Alexandria Stapleton previously said she had acquired the footage legally.
“It came to us, we obtained the footage legally and have the necessary rights,” she claimed to Netflix’s Tudum last month. “We moved heaven and earth to keep the filmmaker’s identity confidential. One thing about Sean Combs is that he’s always filming himself, and it’s been an obsession throughout the decades.”
Sean Combs: The Reckoning is now streaming on Netflix.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support. If you or someone you know is a human trafficking victim, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
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