Netflix’s Diddy docuseries “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” options many stunning revelations, however one of the vital emotional ones comes from singer Aubrey O’Day.
Within the doc, O’Day describes receiving sexually specific messages from the disgraced music mogul and reads an affidavit of an eyewitness account of her being sexually assaulted by Diddy and one other man whereas she appeared “very inebriated.”
“Does this imply I used to be raped?” O’Day says within the docuseries. “I do not even know if I used to be raped, and I do not need to know.”
The four-part docuseries directed by Alexandria Stapleton chronicles the rise and fall of Combs, also known as Diddy, as he goes from hip-hop mogul and billionaire business owner to the topic of a federal prosecution and over 60 civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse.
Combs, who pleaded not responsible, was in the end convicted on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution and is serving a 50-month prison sentence. He was acquitted of essentially the most severe fees, together with racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking by power or fraud, and is ready to be released in May 2028. The allegations associated to O’Day weren’t a part of the felony trial; Combs has denied all wrongdoing within the civil instances.
Combs’ spokesperson Juda Engelmayer instructed Enterprise Insider the Netflix docuseries is “a shameful hit piece,” pointing particularly to the truth that it counts Diddy’s rap rival Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson amongst its government producers.
Netflix disagreed with the characterization. “The claims being made about ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ are false,” a Netflix spokesperson instructed Enterprise Insider. “This isn’t successful piece or an act of retribution.”
The Diddy doc director says O’Day’s story reveals ‘the grey space’ of the Combs saga
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O’Day, a former member of the woman group Danity Kane, which was fashioned by Combs for the 2005 MTV collection “Making the Band,” is first seen within the docuseries studying an electronic mail Combs despatched her in 2008, the yr she was fired from the group.
In it, he says, “I do not wanna simply fuck you. I need to flip you out.” He ends the e-mail by saying he’ll end masturbating whereas watching porn and considering of her.
Later within the docuseries, O’Day reads an affidavit from one of many civil lawsuits of an alleged Combs sufferer. It states that this girl witnessed O’Day being sexually assaulted by Combs and one other man in 2005.
Whereas opening doorways searching for the restroom, the lady stated she opened one door to search out Combs and the opposite man in sexual acts with O’Day, who was “sprawled out on a leather-based sofa, wanting very inebriated.” The girl wrote within the affidavit that she is “100% sure” that the individual was O’Day.
O’Day says within the docuseries that she has no reminiscence of this and sought out the eyewitness to talk to her.
“Even after I instructed her I did not have a recollection of this, I stated, ‘May she be making a mistake?’ I requested in each method I probably might consider, and he or she was sure,” O’Day says within the doc.
O’Day provides that she hadn’t spoken out concerning the incident beforehand out of worry that Combs and his workforce would discredit the lady who wrote the affidavit.
“You understand the burden that that places on my soul for the previous yr, which is that if I expose one sufferer who’s bought a civil lawsuit, that provides Diddy and his authorized workforce credit score to take down everyone else as potential liars,” O’Day stated. “It goes proper again on my shoulders, similar to that.”
Stapleton, the director, instructed Enterprise Insider that O’Day’s revelations within the docuseries highlight “the grey space” within the Combs authorized saga.
“Her tales are actually very, very difficult,” she stated. “It took numerous conversations for her to really feel like, ‘I need to be public about this.'”
“It was by no means about not sharing it; it was extra doubtlessly, ‘How do I current to the world that this is not a binary feeling that I’ve? That I am not going to take a seat right here and say sure, that is completely true after I do not know if it is true, and in addition be like that is whole BS when a part of me feels, what whether it is true?'” Stapleton stated. “Aubrey, in actual time, was making an attempt to determine.”
O’Day didn’t reply to a request for remark.
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” is streaming now on Netflix.
