Aubrey O’Day claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs had a hand in controlling her look whereas filming Making the Band.
O’Day, then 21, was a contestant for the MTV actuality present’s third iteration and in the end landed a coveted spot within the Diddy-backed group, Danity Kane.
On the inaugural episode of the Crysis Queen Podcast, the 40-year-old singer recalled the methods the now-disgraced music mogul allegedly managed her blonde bombshell picture on the sequence.
“I used to be not common—I used to be on dance and chair as a result of I am gifted, and I did nice on the auditions, I am certain. However I wasn’t the beautiful woman, I wasn’t even fairly,” O’Day stated of her look on the 28:23 mark within the video above.
“I look firstly of Making the Band and little Aubrey auditioning and I am like I do not know the way I turned the attractive face one as a result of I simply appear to be each common different bitch round. I wasn’t particularly prettier than anyone at any time in my thoughts,” she added.
She continued, “This a part of me—it is like he is on digicam saying how a lot he hates it however he is off digicam telling me all of the ways in which I wanted to be groomed correctly. I imply, right down to my toenails,” she confessed. “I used to be despatched out of a studio session one time as a result of my toes weren’t polished correctly.”
O’Day additionally alleged that Diddy introduced her right into a recording studio one evening to scold her for not singing on the primary verse for the group’s debut single, “Present Stopper.” She countered by saying that it’s not her place to inform a producer what he can do along with his observe.
“He was like, ‘You are the looker of my band. You assume I can begin off this music video with this woman?’” she stated of Diddy’s alleged off-camera habits.
Additional into the podcast, O’Day stated that Diddy made her re-record the one to position her on the prime of the tune. The transfer in the end led to tensions within the rehearsal studio.
“We might be in rehearsal the following day with Laurie Ann [Gibson] and so they’d carry within the remaining mastered model of the tune. We’re already rehearsing for our music video—all of us did so many transitions, all the pieces was locked,” O’Day recalled. “Then the tune begins enjoying and it isn’t this one on the primary hook anymore, it is me. And everybody’s me like, ‘Bitch, when did you do this?’”
“How do I am going to a bunch member and say, ‘Hey, he does not assume you look good. He did not need your face out the gate on the music video and he most popular mine.’ I am not going to say that to somebody I respect.”
Two months earlier than Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura got here ahead with a lawsuit final November that accused him of rape and abuse, O’Day claimed that Diddy despatched the Danity Kane members non-disclosure agreements in trade for his or her publishing rights. The NDAs requested that the signees can be barred from publicly disparaging him and his associates. Different Unhealthy Boy artists together with Mase, The Lox, Religion Evans, and the property of the Infamous B.I.G. had been reportedly despatched comparable agreements.
“Once I went to have a look at the publishing deal, it stated something however I’m being made entire financially once more,” O’Day stated on TMZ’s The Downfall of Diddy documentary. “The truth is, it requested me to not be capable to have entry to my story and my expertise anymore. It requested me particularly to remain silent and by no means converse poorly a few human. So then I spotted one thing actually dangerous is coming.”
Earlier this month, Danity Kane member Daybreak Richard, 41, filed her personal lawsuit towards Diddy, accusing him of bodily abuse and sexual assault.
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