Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
Dawn Richard Takes the Stand
Wed, 21 May 2025
Aubrey O'Day has a long history with Dawn Richard. In this episode, she takes us from past to present with her former bandmate. From her days with 'Danity Kane' to her recent testimony. Addressing inconsistencies to the celebrity name drops. Aubrey shares her thoughts as the trial continues.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the Diddy Trial about?
So is a three-piece suit with diamonds on a collar. It's certainly a choice. And then when you got into her testimony, it seems like she was inconsistent and not credible as what's being reported.
So when we heard Dawn testify and the access she says she had to Diddy and to Cassie and what she saw and what she witnessed, that was different than the access that you and your other bandmates had? Did she have a different relationship with Diddy and with Cassie than you all did?
She did not suggest that she ever did when asked. long after Dirty Money.
But you all at the time had no idea she was sexually involved whatsoever with Diddy.
Absolutely not. I saw many things that were showing me a complete opposite narrative. So when I saw it, I was shocked. And then when I started to speak to my other colleagues from making the band, I began to learn who my bandmate was.
What? Would she be qualified? She has a lawsuit. I think she's alleging sexual battery, I think is what she's saying, against Diddy.
Assault, but the assault that she alleges in her lawsuit is that during a fitting, he touched her inappropriately in areas. And all the other things that she alleges in her lawsuit are things that happened on making the band. We had to stay up for days at a time. We weren't eating, we were losing weight. I mean, all of those things were kind of like televised to the world.
We weren't included or ever aware that there was going to be a lawsuit over those type of allegations. I mean, we're even being sued in her lawsuit. Our corporation that she is a part of, November 15, she has named in her lawsuit. And that doesn't even exist anymore. The corporation was shut down long ago.
So I don't know if it's laziness on the lawyer's behalf or what, but it's certainly a choice.
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Chapter 2: Why is Aubrey O'Day important to the trial?
When Don punched me in the back of the head, I called 911. That's what you do when you're in your workplace and you're assaulted by your work. colleague, there was nothing that is deserved of in any work environment. And I didn't even realize that because everything is so personal.
But because I called my mom, who's a lawyer, right afterward, I said, Mom, she told me, you know, don't, you need to make a record of this. And so you need to have somebody come there now and take a record of exactly what happens. But don't don't press any charges, obviously, don't take anything into a place that could be hurtful toward people, this can be a private matter. And then she also said,
I was like, but everyone's telling me to suck it up and that's just how things go. And I was saying like, you know, I'm being looked at like I'm being like a Karen. You know, we didn't have that word back then, but like a whiny white woman. And my mom was like, Aubrey, this isn't about color. This isn't about emotion. This is about love. you are in a workplace.
You can't normalize someone punching you because you don't agree on something.
So you called police.
What is she going to do the next time you don't agree? She already sees that she can punch you. What is she going to do next? You can't normalize that behavior in a workplace. I'm like, well, I'm not in a workplace, mom. I'm in the studio making music. This is my life. And she's like, that's your work. That's your job. You don't normalize being attacked at your job.
If that happened in any other workplace, that would not be okay.
Why does she hit you in the head?
You know, I know it sounds ridiculous. But it sounds like a story that we need to hear. We were all coming back and reuniting for, I believe it was the first time since Danity Kane had been destroyed in front of the world by Puff on making the band. When we came back, we all made each other a promise that we would focus on this.
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