Diddy's former protégé Aubrey O'Day calls him 'selfish' for having his kids sit through graphic trial testimonies
One of Sean ' Diddy ' Combs' previous protégés is slamming her former boss and sparing no words in her assessment of his actions.
Aubrey O'Day, 41, who was part of the girl group Danity Kane, called out Combs, 55, for making his children sit through sexually explicit testimony in his federal racketeering and sexual trafficking trail in New York City.
The Wrecking Ball singer, who will not be testifying in the media mogul's trial, condemned her former boss on the Amy Robach and TJ Holmes Present podcast on Friday.
'The fact that the kids are marching up to that court, praying over everything and walking in with a bunch of women also that are encouraging it,' she said of the rapper's kids. The women she referred to seemed to be Comb's mother Janice and perhaps an assistant.
Six of Combs' seven children; Quincy, 33, Justin, 31, Christian, 27, Chance 19, and 18-year-old twins Jessie and D'Lila, have been stoically trying to listen to the graphic descriptions of their father's alleged sexual fetishes.
His youngest child, Love, is two-and-a half.
'I don't know any father that would want their children to sit through testimony about how much their daddy liked to watch people [get] lubricated, f**king, getting pissed on and urinated in their mouths, having his girlfriend come in the other room and rub their c*m all over his nipples,' she told the interviewers.
'Would you want your children to know about it?' she asked rhetorically.
She called it a ploy to appeal the the jury, saying, 'It's concerning to me, that the optics of them being there and supporting [their] father are obviously a very strong play for the defense.'
It became too much for the twins and sister Chance during testimony on May 12.
The three reportedly left the courtroom twice as a male escort testified about an alleged paid sexual encounter between himself and Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, 38.
The escort claimed Combs watched them while masturbating.
O'Day criticized the Bad Boy Records founder as selfish, and narcissistic.
'It's telling to me. It means that daddy's being selfish and he needs — in my opinion — it feels like, "Daddy needs you in court because daddy needs all the optics to look in his favor, and I don't really care what you have to sit through."'
Combs has pleaded not guilty to federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges; Pictured in London in 2023
The rapper's six adult children have been sitting behind him in court during the explicit testimony. Twins Jessie and D'Lila and sister Chance left court twice during testimony on May 12
She accused Combs of using the same kinds of tactics on his offspring that he is accused of using against his reported victims.
'And that, to me, is just showing that same narcissism and ego and dare I say coercion that we're discussing about this man. You know, his needs come first. What he wants comes first.'
While on the stand, Ventura spoke about the painful urinary tract infections she got as a result of the 'freak offs', the mogul allegedly favored.
She also testified he raped her in 2018.
O'Day revealed on the Call Her Daddy podcast in December 2022 that she was fired by Combs because she wouldn't do things he requested 'in other areas' besides music.
She also claimed on the Only Stans podcast in September of that year that she chose not to receive the publishing rights to her songs, alleging Combs' and his attorneys wanted her to sign a nondisclosure agreement which included a clause that she would never 'disparage' the rapper or Bad Boy Records.
The trial will resume on Monday at 9am.
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