Aubrey O’Day claims Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ‘groomed,’ dictated her appearance during ‘Making the Band’

 

Aubrey O’Day alleged disgraced rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs “groomed” and controlled her appearance while filming “Making the Band” when she was around 21 years old.

The former Danity Kane songstress, now 40, got candid about the criticism she faced while working on the MTV reality series in 2005 alongside Combs, who served as an executive producer.

“I look at the beginning of ‘Making the Band’ and little Aubrey auditioning, and I’m like, ‘I don’t know how I became the sexy face one,’” she said on a forthcoming appearance of the “Crysis Queen” podcast,”

Sean Combs and Aubrey O'Day singing on "Making The Band" in 2005.

Aubrey O’Day, seen here performing with Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2006, claimed the music mogul controlled her appearance while filming “Making the Band” in 2005. FilmMagic

Aubrey O'Day poses for a picture.

In an upcoming episode of the “Crysis Queen” podcast, the former Danity Kane singer reflected on filming the MTV reality show with Combs, who was an executive producer. aubreyoday/Instagram

“[Combs] is on camera saying how much he hates it, but he’s off-camera telling me all the ways I needed to be groomed properly like down to my toenails,” she added.

O’Day alleged the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper, 54, labeled her the “looker of the band” and once sent her out of the studio because her toes weren’t properly polished.

She alleged “grooming” was a part of Combs’ abuse cycle.

Producer Sean "P Diddy" Combs, Singers Aubrey O' Day, Dawn Richard, Wanita Woodgett, Shannon Bex and Andrea Fimbres from the music group "Danity Kane" attend Making the Band III's final concert at the Empire Fulton Ferry State Park on July 24, 2006 in Brooklyn.

“I look at the beginning of ‘Making the Band’ and little Aubrey auditioning, and I’m like, ‘I don’t know how I became the sexy face one,’” O’Day said, per the Daily Mail. She’s pictured here with Combs and her Danity Kane bandmates. Getty Images

D. Woods, Aubrey O'Day of Danity Kane and P. Diddy attend MTV's "Making The Band 4: The Final Chapter" live finale at The Hudson Theatre on April 23, 2009 in New York City.

“[Combs] is on camera saying how much he hates it, but he’s off-camera telling me all the ways I needed to be groomed properly like down to my toenails,” added the songstress, seen here with Combs in 2009. WireImage

“With Diddy, I saw multiple … sides of him,” O’Day continued in another part of the interview.

“But I don’t know who I was even talking to that was sober … there was always an element of something going on.”

O’Day claimed Combs once forbid her from being friends with a “certain very big name person,” whom he was also involved with.

Aubrey O'Day poses in an evening gown.

Combs allegedly labeled O’Day the “looker of the band.” aubreyoday/Instagram

Sean "Diddy" Combs and the "Making the Band 3" Girls - Dawn, Aundrea, Aubrey O'Day, Tiffany and Shannon.

She claimed Combs once sent her away for not properly painting her nails. FilmMagic

“That was the first time [Combs] had kinda said, ‘You’re not allowed to be around that person ever again,’” she recalled, explaining she knew her unnamed friend’s experience with the rapper.

“And that was the first time I started to see the dynamics change with just how he approached me on camera,” the singer alleged.

O’Day was a part of the Danity Kane girl group until 2008 when she allegedly got booted for not doing “what was expected” of her — “not talent-wise but in other areas,” she said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in 2022.

 Sean "P. Diddy" Combs poses for a photo with (L-R) Dawn Richard, Aubrey O'Day, Shannon Bex, Aundrea Fimbres, and D. Woods of Danity Kane backstage during MTV's "Making The Band 4" finale at the MTV Times Square Studios in Aug. 26, 2007 in New York City.

O’Day alleged “grooming” was part of Combs’ abusive cycle. Getty Images

ean P Diddy Combs attends backstage after the Jay-Z Concert at The Apollo on Nov. 13, 2007 in New York.

“With Diddy, I saw multiple … sides of him,” O’Day said. FilmMagic

“After coming off of Diddy, there’s not many people you can go into a room with and get that type of high from,” she said on the “Crysis Queen” podcast, according to the Daily Mail.

“Grooming is a process, they don’t just abuse you on day one,” O’Day said, explaining groomers usually make their victims feel comfortable before flipping a switch.

“It’s like the military,” she continued. “They break you down and build you back up into the soldier they need you to be for the country they need you to be fighting for.”

Sean 'Diddy' Combs speak onstage during the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles.

The singer alleged that Combs once told her to stop being friends with someone he was associated with. Getty Images

Aubrey O'Day attends Josh McBride's birthday celebration at Somewhere Nowhere NYC on Sept. 07, 2023 in New York City.

O’Day left Danity Kane in 2008. Getty Images

O’Day also claimed “there are way more victims” of Combs’ that will come forward as the sex trafficking case against the Bad Boy Records founder plays out.

In April, she alleged Combs tried to buy her silence by offering her publishing rights in 2023, though she declined the deal.

Reps for Combs weren’t immediately available to Page Six for comment.

On Sept. 16, Combs was arrested and charged with sex trafficking, prostitution, racketeering and fraud.

Aubrey O'Day arrives at the launch of the DermKing Humanity Foundation on Nov. 05, 2023 in Los Angeles.

Last week, she celebrated the embattled rapper’s arrest. Getty Images

Sean "P.Diddy" Combs arrives at "American Gangster" premiere at the Apollo Theater on Oct. 19, 2007 in New York City.

She referred to the charges against Combs as “justice.” WireImage

He’s accused of “[coercing] women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires” and “creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in … sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice,” per a 14-page unsealed indictment.

The findings come after the feds raided his Miami and Los Angeles mansions in March and uncovered guns, drugs and 1,000 bottles of lubricant.

O’Day — who has been an outspoken critic of Combs — said the music mogul’s arrest was “justice” for “women all over the world.”

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