Breaking Diddy’s former protégé Aubrey O’Day breaks silence on whether she will testify at rapper’s sex trafficking trial EnglishHeadline

Aubrey O’Day revealed she won’t be testifying at her former mentor Sean ‘Diddy‘ Comb’s intercourse trafficking trial, regardless of being contacted by Homeland Safety. 

O’Day, 41, rose to fame because the lead singer of the lady group Danity Kane, which acquired a document cope with Diddy’s Unhealthy Boy Information in 2005 after successful season three of MTV’s Making The Band 3. 

The rapper, 55, is at present on trial for intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution expenses, and there have been studies O’Day had been subpoenaed.

Nevertheless, the singer — who has spoken out towards the disgraced hip hop mogul prior to now and known as his indictment a ‘win for ladies’ — mentioned she won’t take the stand on the trial, which entered its fifth day on Friday.

‘No, I am not right here to testify for the Diddy trial, that I do know of,’ she mentioned throughout a premiere episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’s iHeart Radio podcast protecting the trial.

She had beforehand brought about hypothesis she’d seem within the courtroom after just lately sharing a social media video from New York.

Aubrey additionally claimed that she ‘was contacted by Homeland Safety’ and ‘did have a gathering with Homeland Safety.’ 

Aubrey O’Day, 41, revealed she won’t be testifying at her former mentor Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s, 55, intercourse trafficking trial, regardless of being contacted by Homeland Safety

‘I posted on my Instagram that I used to be right here in New York and having fun with myself as a result of I wished to make it clear to everybody that I’m not right here testifying,’ O’Day mentioned of her current Instagram submit.

The submit was shared on Might 14 and prompted some followers to imagine she was alluding to a doable court docket look on the trial.

The video’s caption learn: ‘Hey New York!!! The place y’all suppose I ought to head first?’

She additionally included a weighing scale emoji, a standard image of justice.

Aubrey additionally gave her preliminary impression to listening to the testimony of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, 38, who’s the star witness within the New York trial of Combs, a three-time Grammy award winner who had a string of hits within the Nineteen Nineties.

Cassie has claimed she was compelled to participate in a whole lot of ‘Freak Offs’ in the course of the decade she was with the hip-hop mogul.

She met Combs in 2006 when she was 19 and he was 36. They quickly started a relationship and stayed collectively till 2018, when she broke issues off.

Commenting on Cassie’s testimony, Aubrey mentioned, ‘It feels very sincere. It feels very open, weak, horrific.’

‘Typically I hear her focus on issues that she did then and the way now she would by no means, she understands it in another way, and that makes me really feel like so completely satisfied for her that she’s come, , as a result of I do not know her as a mother, so like to grasp that she made that evolution and went to the opposite facet of viewing all of it made me really feel like actually pleased with her.’ 

O’Day rose to fame because the lead singer of the lady group Danity Kane, which acquired a document cope with Diddy’s Unhealthy Boy Information in 2005 after successful season three of MTV’s Making The Band 3; pictured 2006

The singer — who has spoken out towards the disgraced hip hop mogul prior to now and known as his indictment a ‘win for ladies’ — mentioned she won’t take the stand

‘No, I am not right here to testify for the Diddy trial, that I do know of,’ she mentioned throughout a premiere episode of Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes’s podcast protecting the trial, after she just lately shared a social media video from New York

‘I posted on my Instagram that I used to be right here in New York and having fun with myself as a result of I wished to make it clear to everybody that I’m not right here testifying,’ O’Day mentioned of her current Instagram submit

Aubrey additionally known as the testimony of Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura, 38, ‘open, weak, horrific’; Cassie and Diddy seen in 2016

‘It is horrific that she needed to undergo undergo a lot,’ she added.

Aubrey went on to debate one explicit a part of the testimony that shared textual content messages between Cassie and Diddy.

‘You understand, there was one a part of the testimony that was so telling. It isn’t even something anybody’s actually relating, however there was a transcript that I learn that went one thing like, “I do not actually or can we speak? I wished to deliver one thing as much as you” and he is like, “okay, yeah, you do not wish to do the freak out now. You so predictable.”‘

‘That is a really… It is a assertion that groomers make,’ Aubrey mentioned.

‘In the event you’ve ever dated anybody that does not actually love you, and is like abusive normally, and pushing you into issues.’

She went on: ‘It does not even should be sexual. It might be something they need you to do. It is like nearly coaching a baby, proper like, “oh, you wish to deliver up this? You so predictable, such as you identical to the remainder of them.”‘

‘And you then get that feeling as a girl to be like no, wait, I am not I promise you then speak your self again into an concept, similar means when she was brutally abused in that hallway, him writing her, “I am about to get arrested. The police are right here.” They’ve already testified to the truth that there was no arrest and there was no police arresting him. That was to get her to return again.’

Aubrey known as it ‘management, coercion, and grooming.’ 

Although Aubrey won’t testify, her Danity Kane bandmate, Daybreak Richard took the stand on Friday. Richard gave proof about seeing Diddy abuse Ventura ‘typically’; Daybreak seen with Diddy in 2010

When requested if something in Cassie’s testimony stunned or shocked her, Aubrey merely replied, ‘no.’

The musician went on to say that the toughest factor to listen to was that Cassie ‘felt so beloved in his firm, and she or he felt he made her really feel not like anybody else, and so she would do this stuff as a result of it was the one time and probability that she acquired to essentially spend in that feeling.’

She additionally in contrast situations in her previous relationships to what Cassie had skilled, stating: ‘There are numerous ways in which I’ve compromised myself. Not in the identical methods as Cassie essentially, however I do not decide her compromise. A compromise is a compromise.’

‘While you compromise your self, you are doing the identical harm. It actually does not matter in what space, it is all the identical.’

Although Aubrey won’t testify, her Danity Kane bandmate, Daybreak Richard took the stand on Friday.

Richard gave proof about seeing Diddy abuse Ventura ‘typically’.

Final 12 months, Richard filed a lawsuit towards Diddy after watching the viral video of the music producer attacking Cassie at a Los Angeles lodge in 2016.

Richard claims the disgraced Unhealthy Boy mogul sexually assaulted her, disadvantaged her of meals and sleep and refused to pay her adequately. Her case is amongst dozens of claims filed towards Combs in numerous states.

Final 12 months O’Day mentioned she felt ‘validated’ when Diddy was indicted by a grand jury on intercourse trafficking, racketeering and prostitution expenses.

Homeland Safety officers then arrested the rap mogul on the Park Hyatt lodge in midtown Manhattan. 

Final 12 months O’Day mentioned she felt ‘validated’ when Diddy was indicted by a grand jury on intercourse trafficking, racketeering and prostitution expenses 

‘The aim of Justice is to offer an ending and permit us the house to create a brand new chapter. Girls by no means get this. I really feel validated. Right this moment is a win for ladies everywhere in the world, not simply me,’ O’Day wrote on X

She additionally quoted a submit from journalist Yashar Ali wherein he famous that O’Day ‘has been making an attempt to deliver consideration to Diddy’s abusive nature and warn individuals that he’s harmful. For years.’ He added that O’Day’s ‘braveness’ led her to allegedly be ‘bullied, terrorized, and threatened’

O’Day claimed that Diddy ‘did worse than that to me,’ although she did not develop on her assertion earlier than thanking the journalist for sharing her story

In a submit on X, Aubrey described the authorized motion as a ‘win for ladies’ throughout the globe.

‘The aim of Justice is to offer an ending and permit us the house to create a brand new chapter. Girls by no means get this,’ O’Day wrote on X.

‘I really feel validated. Right this moment is a win for ladies everywhere in the world, not simply me,’ she continued, including, ‘Issues are lastly altering.’

She additionally quoted a submit from journalist Yashar Ali wherein he famous that O’Day ‘has been making an attempt to deliver consideration to Diddy’s abusive nature and warn individuals that he’s harmful. For years.’

He added that O’Day’s ‘braveness’ led her to allegedly be ‘bullied, terrorized, and threatened.’

O’Day claimed that Diddy ‘did worse than that to me,’ although she did not develop on her assertion earlier than thanking the journalist for sharing her story.

O’Day’s marketing campaign to show Diddy’s alleged crimes and misdeeds has been occurring since she was fired from Danity Kane, the lady group that he shaped whereas filming his actuality sequence Making The Band 3.

She beforehand claimed that the rap mogul had tried to purchase her silence by returning her music publishing rights, which had been owned by Unhealthy Boy Information, as he had executed with different artists related to the label.

She considered the provide as an try to hold her from talking out towards him.

O’Day had been picked to be part of Diddy’s lady group Danity Kane on 2005’s Making the Band, however she later asserted that he fired her as a result of she ‘wasn’t keen to do what was anticipated of [her] — not talent-wise, however in different areas’ (pictured 2005)

O’Day has asserted that Diddy fired her as a result of she ‘wasn’t keen to do what was anticipated of [her] — not talent-wise, however in different areas.’

Prosecutors allege that Combs used his fame and fortune to orchestrate an empire of exploitation, coercing girls into abusive intercourse events.

His legal professionals argue that each one the sexual acts had been consensual, and though he might be violent, he by no means veered into intercourse trafficking and racketeering.

Combs has pleaded not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses. His protection says that, though he might be violent, nothing he did amounted to a prison enterprise. Combs insists all of the intercourse was consensual.