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Aubrey O’Day feels “validated” after her former boss Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution.
“The purpose of Justice is to provide an ending and allow us the space to create a new chapter. Women never get this. I feel validated. Today is a win for women all over the world, not just me. Things are finally changing,” the former Danity Kane member wrote on X Monday.
O’Day, 40, also reacted to a journalist reminding social media users that the “Show Stopper” singer has been “trying to bring attention to Diddy’s abusive nature and warn people that he is dangerous” for years but was instead “bullied, terrorized, and threatened.”
“he did worse than that to me,” she wrote in part before thanking the reporter.
After another user urged her to “speak” about Combs’ arrest, O’Day clapped back in a third message, “I chose to speak to people who could move justice in the way I needed to see it. I’ve been speaking. Never underestimated that.”
The reality star has expressed her disdain for Combs, 54, ever since he fired her from her girl group in 2008.
Most recently, the “Damaged” songstress claimed the “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper had tried to buy her silence by offering her publishing rights to his label, Bad Boy Records.
O’Day’s latest comments came shortly after Combs was arrested on federal charges at a hotel in New York City.
Investigators did not immediately disclose why the hip- mogul had been taken into custody, but the news came in the midst of a sex trafficking investigation that saw feds raid his homes in Miami and Los Angeles in March.
Court documents obtained by Page Six prior to Combs’ arraignment Tuesday eventually revealed that he has been charged with three counts: racketeering conspiracy; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Prosecutors claimed in the unsealed indictment that the Grammy winner “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct” for decades.
He is further accused of “creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.”
The record producer’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, released a statement Monday expressing his disappointment in the “unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs” shortly after his client’s arrest.
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire, adoring his children and working to uplift the black community,” Agnifilo said.
The lawyer argued that while Combs is “imperfect,” he has been “nothing but cooperative with this investigation.”
“Please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts. These are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court,” he pleaded.
Combs found himself in hot water after his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura sued him for rape and physical abuse in November 2023.
The exes privately settled the suit just one day later, but he vehemently denied her claims.
However, Combs copped to his “inexcusable” behavior in May after a 2016 video of him physically abusing Ventura in a hotel surfaced.
“I went and I sought out professional help, started going to therapy and rehab, had to ask god for his mercy and grace,” he said in a social media video shortly after the surveillance footage leaked online.
Since then, Combs has been hit with multiple lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct.
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