Aubrey O’Day says Sean “Diddy” Combs crossed the line by sending her a string of sexually explicit messages before firing her from Danity Kane, the singer claims in Netflix’s scathing new docuseries about the disgraced Bad Boy founder.
In Part 3 of “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” O’Day reveals, “There are emails with pictures of his penis,” before reading one allegedly from Combs that says, “I don’t want to just fuck you, I want to turn you out.”
The email continued with passages like, “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.”
Combs’ alleged email to O’Day concluded with him saying, “Ima finish watching this porn and finish masturbating. I’ll think of you,” adding a happy face. “If you change your mind and get ready to do what I say, hit me,” which she said was also followed by a happy face.
A screenshot of the email showed Combs signing it with a signature that reads, “God bless. Diddy. God is the Greatest.”
“This is your boss at your work sending you that email,” O’Day points out in the documentary.
The former Bad Boy and Danity Kane singer went on to say that “in real life,” someone behind those kinds of emails would have been fired from their job. Instead, she said Combs booted her from her group six months after his alleged sexual harassment.
“I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually,” O’Day declared in the doc.
This isn’t the first time O’Day has addressed her firing from Danity Kane, nor is it the first time she’s voiced her negative experiences with Combs, especially as he’s faced numerous civil lawsuits and accusations of sexual misconduct over the last two years.
Her newest statements, however, join other revelations presented in Netflix’s four-part series, which includes never-before-seen footage of Combs roaming around New York City and anxiously strategizing with his legal team in the days before his 2024 arrest and indictment.
The docuseries, executive-produced by rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and directed by Alexandria Stapleton, goes into great detail about Combs’ ascent as an entertainment mogul and how his success masked a long-running pattern of misconduct.
Alongside O’Day, the documentary also includes interviews with Bad Boy artists Kalenna Harper and Mark Curry; Joi Dickerson-Neal, one of Combs’ alleged victims; Capricorn Clark, a former employee who testified against him; and jurors who found Combs guilty earlier this year on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution during his high-profile sex trafficking and racketeering trial.
Combs slammed the Netflix project hours before its Tuesday premiere, calling it “a shameful hit piece” in a statement released by his publicist, which also claimed that Netflix used “stolen footage” of Combs that he was planning to use to “tell his own story,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalize every minute of Mr. Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalize on a never-ending media frenzy,” the statement continued, also criticizing the streamer for handing creative control over to Jackson, Combs’ “longtime adversary with a personal vendetta.”
“For Netflix to give his life story to someone who has publicly attacked him for decades feels like an unnecessary and deeply personal affront,” it concludes. “At minimum, he expected fairness from people he respected.”
In an interview with THR, Stapleton said Combs’ pre-arrest footage was “obtained completely legally,” although she and Jackson did not reveal how.
Discussing the intent behind the series, Stapleton told Tudum, “This isn’t just about the story of Sean Combs or the story of Cassie, or the story of any of the victims, or the allegations against him, or the trial. Ultimately, this story is a mirror [reflecting us] as the public, and what we are saying when we put our celebrities on such a high pedestal.”
She added, “I hope [this documentary] is a wake-up call for how we idolize people, and to understand that everybody is a human being.”
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” is now streaming on Netflix.
