Aubrey O’Day is ready to forgive herself — but Sean “Diddy” Combs isn’t off the hook.
The Danity Kane alum skirted questions about whether she could forgive the Bad Boy Productions founder for allegedly raping her in an interview with CBS News Tuesday.
“Do I forgive him? I don’t think that matters to the bigger picture,” she said. “I think that he needs to do the work to forgive himself.”
O’Day — who worked closely with Diddy after competing on his “Making The Band” show in 2005 and went on to become a founding member of the now-defunct girl group — has been able to do her own internal work.
“I forgive myself. That was the hard one,” she said. “The feelings that I’ve had throughout all of this really come down to, like, forgiving myself for misplacing abuse, or attention, or acknowledgment as love.
“Those weren’t one in the same. And so I had to forgive myself first.”
O’Day, 41, also said that she does not believe justice has been served with Diddy currently locked up in prison.
“I want to be helping people, and speaking for the underdogs, and speaking for the voices that aren’t being heard,” she said. “And I didn’t necessarily get to spend the majority of my life yet being able to live in my purpose.”
O’Day appeared in Netflix’s bombshell documentary, “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” in which she discusses a witness affidavit that alleged she was sexually assaulted by the rapper.
The affidavit claims Combs and another man sexually assaulted O’Day while she was “looking very inebriated.”
O’Day has no memory of the incident, sharing in the doc, “Does this mean I was raped? Is that what this means? I don’t even know if I was raped. And I don’t want to know.”
The pop star told CBS News that the witness’ story has been “consistent for two years in every area that they’ve been in,” yet she still doesn’t know if she was ever assaulted.
Combs, 56, told the outlet in a statement that he “categorically denies the allegations in the Netflix documentary.”
The four-part special, executive-produced by Diddy’s industry nemesis 50 Cent, features archival footage and bombshell interviews that uncover Diddy’s rise to fame, sexual misconduct allegations, alleged “Freak-Offs,” and subsequent downfall.
The “I’ll Be Missing You” artist was arrested in September 2024 amid a sex trafficking investigation.
Months earlier, a video surfaced of Combs beating his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway in 2016. Cassie would go on to testify in Diddy’s trial, sharing her harrowing testimony of Combs’ alleged years-long abuse.
Dozens of other men and women surfaced with sexual misconduct accusations against the Hip Hop mogul.
In July, Combs was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
Combs was sentenced to four years in federal prison.
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