Aubrey O’Day has shared that she will not be providing testimony at the sex trafficking trial of her former mentor, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, even though she was approached by Homeland Security.
O’Day, who gained popularity as the leading vocalist of the group Danity Kane, secured a recording deal with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records in 2005 after triumphing in the third season of MTV’s Making The Band 3.
Currently, the 55-year-old rapper is facing charges related to sex trafficking, racketeering, and facilitating transportation for prostitution, with reports suggesting that O’Day had been subpoenaed.
However, the singer — who has spoken out against the disgraced hip hop mogul in the past and called his indictment a ‘win for women’ — said she will not take the stand.
‘No, I’m not here to testify for the Diddy trial, that I know of,’ she said during a premiere episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’s iHeart Radio podcast covering the trial, after she recently shared a social media video from New York.
She claimed that she ‘was contacted by Homeland Security’ and ‘did have a meeting with Homeland Security.’
Aubrey O’Day, 41, revealed she will not be testifying at her former mentor Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s, 55, sex trafficking trial, despite being contacted by Homeland Security
‘I posted on my Instagram that I was here in New York and enjoying myself because I wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am not here testifying,’ O’Day said of her recent Instagram post.
The post was shared on May 14 and prompted some fans to believe she was alluding to a possible court appearance at the trial.
The video’s caption read: ‘Hey New York!!! Where y’all think I should head first?’
She also included a weighing scale emoji, a common symbol of justice.
Aubrey also gave her initial impression to hearing the testimony of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, 38, who is the star witness in the New York trial of Combs, a three-time Grammy award winner who had a string of hits in the 1990s.
Cassie has claimed she was forced to take part in hundreds of ‘Freak Offs’ during the decade she was with the hip-hop mogul.
She met Combs in 2006 when she was 19 and he was 36. They soon began a relationship and stayed together until 2018, when she broke things off.
Commenting on Cassie’s testimony, Aubrey said, ‘It feels very honest. It feels very open, vulnerable, horrific.’
‘Sometimes I hear her discuss things that she did then and how now she would never, she understands it differently, and that makes me feel like so happy for her that she’s come, you know, because I don’t know her as a mom, so like to understand that she made that evolution and went to the other side of viewing all of it made me feel like really proud of her.’
O’Day rose to fame as the lead singer of the girl group Danity Kane, which got a record deal with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records in 2005 after winning season three of MTV’s Making The Band 3; pictured 2006
The singer — who has spoken out against the disgraced hip hop mogul in the past and called his indictment a ‘win for women’ — said she will not take the stand
‘No, I’m not here to testify for the Diddy trial, that I know of,’ she said during a premiere episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’s podcast covering the trial, after she recently shared a social media video from New York
‘I posted on my Instagram that I was here in New York and enjoying myself because I wanted to make it clear to everyone that I am not here testifying,’ O’Day said of her recent Instagram post
‘It’s horrific that she had to go through go through so much,’ she added.
Aubrey went on to discuss one particular part of the testimony that shared text messages between Cassie and Diddy.
‘You know, there was one part of the testimony that was so telling. It’s not even anything anyone’s really touching on, but there was a transcript that I read that went something like, “I don’t really or can we talk? I wanted to bring something up to you” and he’s like, “okay, yeah, you know you don’t want to do the freak out now. You so predictable.”‘
‘That’s a very… It’s a statement that groomers make,’ Aubrey said.
‘If you’ve ever dated anyone that doesn’t really love you, and is like abusive usually, and pushing you into things.’
‘It doesn’t even have to be sexual. It could be anything they want you to do. It’s like almost training a child, right like, “oh, you want to bring up this? You so predictable, like you just like the rest of them.”‘
‘And then you get that feeling as a woman to be like no, wait, I’m not I promise you then talk yourself back into an idea, same way when she was brutally abused in that hallway, him writing her, “I’m about to get arrested. The police are here.” They’ve already testified to the fact that there was no arrest and there was no police arresting him. That was to get her to come back.’
She went on to call it ‘control, coercion, and grooming.’
When asked if anything in Cassie’s testimony surprised or shocked her, Aubrey simply replied, ‘no.’
The musician went on to say that the hardest thing to hear was that Cassie ‘felt so loved in his company, and she felt he made her feel unlike anyone else, and so she would do these things because it was the only time and chance that she got to really spend in that feeling.’
She also compared instances in her past relationships to what Cassie had experienced, stating: ‘There are many ways that I have compromised myself. Not in the same ways as Cassie necessarily, but I don’t judge her compromise. A compromise is a compromise.’
‘When you compromise yourself, you’re doing the same damage. It really doesn’t matter in what area, it’s all the same.’
