Aubrey O'Day didn't take the stand during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, but she's speaking out in a new documentary about the rap mogul.
The third episode of the Netflix documentary series "Sean Combs: The Reckoning," which was co-produced by Combs' longtime foe 50 Cent and debuted on Tuesday, Dec. 2, included an interview with O'Day, a member of Combs' R&B group Danity Kane.
Combs formed Danity Kane with Aundrea Fimbres, D. Woods, Shannon Bex, Dawn Richard and O'Day, on MTV's "Making the Band" in 2005.
In the documentary, O'Day read an explicit email that Combs allegedly sent her, in which he graphically described wanting to have sex with her and told her he is going to think of her while he watches pornography and masturbates. O'Day also alleged Combs emailed her pictures of his penis.
"This is your boss at your work sending you that email," O'Day said. "What happens in real life to anyone else? Your boss gets fired. Six months later, I was fired."
She went on to add, "I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually."
In July, Combs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution in a federal criminal trial. The rapper, who has denied allegations including of the sex-trafficking and racketeering charges he also faced, was sentenced to just over four years in prison.
O'Day previously alleged on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast in 2022 that Combs removed her from Danity Kane in 2008 because she wouldn't do things he requested "in other areas" besides music. In the Investigation Discovery docuseries "The Fall of Diddy," Woods alleged O'Day confided in her that Combs often sent her "inappropriate" photos, including "overtly pornographic" material. Woods also claimed Combs retaliated against O'Day, in part, because she didn't "succumb to his advances."
In a statement provided to USA TODAY, a spokesperson for Combs described "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" as a "shameful hit piece." Combs spokesperson Juda Engelmayer also told USA TODAY that the rapper's legal team would not be commenting "on individual claims being repeated in the documentary."
"Many of the people featured have longstanding personal grievances, financial motives, or credibility issues that have been documented for years," Engelmayer said. "Several of these stories have already been addressed in court filings, and others were never raised in any legal forum because they're simply not true. The project was built around a one-sided narrative led by a publicly admitted adversary, and it repeats allegations without context, evidence, or verification."
Engelmayer added, "Sean Combs will continue to address legitimate matters through the legal process, not through a biased Netflix production."
Former sex worker says he witnessed Diddy assault Cassie: 'She flew across the room'
The third episode of "Sean Combs: The Reckoning" also included an interview with Clayton Howard, a former sex worker who said he was hired by Combs. Howard alleged he would see Combs and his then-girlfriend, Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine, "every two, three weeks" for sex sessions lasting between 18 and 20 hours that were "heavily regulated" by Combs.
Howard, who said he was "involved in this for a little over eight years," claimed Combs and Ventura Fine "used to physically collect my semen in a cup," which Combs allegedly told him was because "I like to see her play with it and drink it."
He went on to allege he witnessed Combs becoming violent with Ventura Fine. Howard recalled an incident where Ventura Fine made him a drink, only for Combs to tell her not to give it to him. After Ventura Fine gave Howard the drink anyway, Combs allegedly got "violent" and grabbed her, Howard said.
"I heard the glass shatter all over the floor, and then I just heard the door open and slam shut," Howard said. "He comes to me, he says, 'Oh, s---. She just ran out of the room. We've got to go find her.' Every time she got assaulted, she would run out. She would always come back, and they went right into the master suite. They might have been in there 30 minutes, 45 minutes, whatever. But when they came out, she came out like absolutely nothing happened."
In another instance, Howard alleged Combs "punched her dead in the chest" during an argument. "She flew across the room," he said, going on to recall another instance where Combs "kicked" Ventura Fine.
Also in the episode, Combs' former security guard Roger Bonds alleged that while "I've never seen him actually punch or hit" his late partner Kim Porter, "I've been in front of the room while I knew that was going on inside the room."
"Kim would come out with her hair all messed up," Bonds said. "Her face would be red."
The documentary also includes previously unseen footage of Combs days before he was indicted on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, which appears to have been shot by a videographer hired by Combs.
The third episode opens with footage of Combs, six days before his arrest in September 2024, in the back of a car describing plans to deposit $200 million. Later, footage is shown of Combs bemoaning the series of lawsuits he was facing accusing him of sexual assault. "Dawn Richard just dropped a lawsuit on me," he said, and the episode ended with Combs slamming the "fictitious" allegations and promising that the "gloves [are] coming off."
Contributing: Taijuan Moorman, Naledi Ushe and Edward Segarra
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Aubrey O'Day alleges Diddy fired her for 'not participating sexually'
Reporting by Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY / USA TODAY
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