Aubrey O'Day 'felt horrible' not reporting allegations against Sean Combs
Aubrey O’Day has admitted she "felt horrible" for not reporting allegations that Sean 'Diddy' Combs sexually assaulted her.
Aubrey O’Day "felt horrible" for not reporting that Sean 'Diddy' Combs allegedly sexually assaulted her.
The 41-year-old singer learned about her alleged assault from an affidavit from another woman in a civil case against the music mogul, who described an incident that O'Day has no recollection of.
The star - who appeared on the disgraced rapper's reality show Making The Band - reacted to another woman claiming she walked in on Combs, 56, and another man sexually assaulting her.
She swore in an affidavit that O'Day was "sprawled out on a leather couch looking very inebriated".
O'Day had been urged to file a report on the alleged assault when New York's statute window closed in 2023, but she has now told PEOPLE magazine: "I remember the day that the statute closed.
"'Well, this is it. You’re never going to be able to see that type of justice again in your life'… It felt horrible.
"But it felt good that I stayed in line with my integrity and stayed consistent with my integrity.”
In recent Netflix documentary series Sean Combs: The Reckoning, O'Day insisted she doesn't know if she was raped or not, and she has now explained that for that reason, she couldn't convince herself to file a report.
She added: "I was raised by attorneys who instilled in me the importance of never compromising myself ethically."
Asked if she believes Combs sexually assaulted her, O'Day refused to give a direct answer.
She said: “I just don’t feel it would be responsible to say that. I take it very seriously that this is a man’s life on the line.”
O'Day previously explained she doesn't want to know more because she would want to "take her the f*** down" if the allegation is untrue, but she doesn't want to help Comb's legal team.
She said in the documentary: “If she made it up, I would be compelled to take her the f*** down.
“And you realise 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.”
In the series, O'Day revealed she felt like she was fired from group Danity Kane - which was formed on Making The Band - in 2008 for "not participating sexually" with Combs after he allegedly send her "emails with pictures of his penis".
Combs is serving 50 months behind bars after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
In response to accusations made in the docu-series, his legal team said they were "not going to comment on individual claims being repeated in the documentary".
Without responding directly to O'Day's allegations, they added in a statement to Variety: "Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years.
"Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they’re simply not true.
"The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate matters through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production.”
