Aubrey O’Day Finally Breaks Silence After Painful Diddy Netflix Docuseries Experience
Aubrey O’Day is reeling after Netflix’s controversial docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, telling TMZ that watching her fraught past with Diddy play out publicly has been destabilizing.
I figured I knew what Aubrey O'Day would say about Netflix's controversial docuseries 'Sean Combs: The Reckoning.' She has talked about her history with Diddy before. But this time, watching the thing apparently knocked her flat. She says it sent her to the ER. And the show itself? It goes to some very dark places, with a few moments that feel uncomfortably close to the machinery behind the scenes.
O'Day says the doc blindsided her
In new comments to TMZ, O'Day says revisiting that chapter on Netflix hit her harder than expected, because she was finally seeing parts of the story from outside her own bubble.
'Watching everything from Netflix unfold publicly, seeing parts of a world I only knew from inside my own limited lens, was like living it again, but this time with context and truth outside of me. I didn't think it would traumatize me the way it did, but watching the pieces line up from a distance outside of myself has felt like my nervous system was reliving everything with more clarity than I ever even asked for.'
Meanwhile, some people online took shots at her for skipping the Danity Kane reunion. She says that noise only made things worse. After finishing the doc, she says she wound up in the ER with a grab-bag of symptoms: vertigo, fever, dizziness, a migraine, chills, and vomiting.
Where O'Day shows up in the series
The third episode reaches back to 2005 and MTV's 'Making the Band,' when Combs put together Danity Kane. O'Day walks through that period and reads an explicit email she says came from him. She also alleges he sent unsolicited photos and blurred professional boundaries, which left her feeling pressured by a person who had power over her career. The series also references an allegation from a civil case affidavit; on camera, O'Day says she does not remember the event described, and you can see the shock and confusion land in real time.
What else the doc lays out
- Clayton Howard alleges he was hired for prolonged, tightly managed sexual encounters that also involved Combs' then-girlfriend, Cassandra Ventura.
- There is previously unseen footage, filmed days before Combs' arrest, where he talks through media strategy as federal charges were looming.
It is a tough watch, and some of it is startling in how blunt it is.
'Sean Combs: The Reckoning' is streaming on Netflix in the US. If you watched it, I am curious which moment hit you the hardest—and if you, like O'Day, found yourself processing old information in a new way once it was all laid out.