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Aubrey O'Day Alleges Diddy Grooming in Netflix Docuseries

Published 2 December 2025

In the newly released Netflix docuseries "Sean Combs: The Reckoning," former Danity Kane singer Aubrey O'Day detailed allegations of grooming and sexual misconduct by Sean "Diddy" Combs during her time as a member of the group he formed in 2005. The four-part series, which premiered this week, features O'Day recounting her experiences from the MTV reality show "Making the Band" season three, where she was selected alongside Dawn Richard, Shannon Bex, Aundrea Fimbres and Wanita "D. Woods" Woodgett to form the girl group.

O'Day described how Combs singled her out early on, stating, "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 alleged that the interactions soon turned explicit, claiming Combs sent her emails containing photos of his penis. Reading from one such message in the series, she said it included lines like, "I don't wanna just f 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...

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