Netflix’s Diddy docuseries “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” features many shocking revelations, but one of the most emotional ones comes from singer Aubrey O’Day.
In the doc, O’Day describes receiving sexually explicit messages from the disgraced music mogul and reads an affidavit of an eyewitness account of her being sexually assaulted by Diddy and another man while she looked “very inebriated.”
“Does this mean I was raped?” O’Day says in the docuseries. “I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want 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 subject of a federal prosecution and over 60 civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse.
Combs, who pleaded not guilty, was ultimately convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and is serving a 50-month prison sentence. He was acquitted of the most serious charges, including racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking by force or fraud, and is set to be released in May 2028. The allegations related to O’Day were not part of the criminal trial; Combs has denied all wrongdoing in the civil cases.
Combs’ spokesperson Juda Engelmayer told Business Insider the Netflix docuseries is “a shameful hit piece,” pointing in particular to the fact that it counts Diddy’s rap rival Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson among its executive producers.
Netflix disagreed with the characterization. “The claims being made about ‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ are false,” a Netflix spokesperson told Business Insider. “This is not a hit piece or an act of retribution.”
The Diddy doc director says O’Day’s story shows ‘the gray area’ of the Combs saga
O’Day, a former member of the girl group Danity Kane, which was formed by Combs for the 2005 MTV series “Making the Band,” is first seen in the docuseries reading an email Combs sent her in 2008, the year she was fired from the group.
In it, he says, “I don’t wanna just fuck you. I want to turn you out.” He ends the email by saying he’s going to finish masturbating while watching porn and thinking of her.
Later in the docuseries, O’Day reads an affidavit from one of the civil lawsuits of an alleged Combs victim. It states that this woman witnessed O’Day being sexually assaulted by Combs and another man in 2005.
While opening doors looking for the restroom, the woman said she opened one door to find Combs and the other man in sexual acts with O’Day, who was “sprawled out on a leather couch, looking very inebriated.” The woman wrote in the affidavit that she is “100% certain” that the person was O’Day.
O’Day says in the docuseries that she has no memory of this and sought out the eyewitness to speak to her.
“Even after I told her I didn’t have a recollection of this, I said, ‘Could she be making a mistake?’ I asked in every way I possibly could think of, and she was certain,” O’Day says in the doc.
O’Day adds that she hadn’t spoken out about the incident previously out of fear that Combs and his team would discredit the woman who wrote the affidavit.
“You realize 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,” O’Day said. “It goes right back on my shoulders, just like that.”
Stapleton, the director, told Business Insider that O’Day’s revelations in the docuseries spotlight “the gray area” in the Combs legal saga.
“Her stories are really very, very complicated,” she said. “It took a lot of conversations for her to feel like, ‘I want to be public about this.'”
“It was never about not sharing it; it was more potentially, ‘How do I present to the world that this isn’t a binary feeling that I have? That I’m not going to sit here and say yes, this is absolutely true when I don’t know if it’s true, and also be like this is total BS when part of me feels, what if it is true?'” Stapleton said. “Aubrey, in real time, was trying to figure out.”
O’Day did not respond to a request for comment.
“Sean Combs: The Reckoning” is streaming now on Netflix.
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