Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ongoing legal saga has left Aubrey O’Day uninterested in dating.
“You know, there’s nothing that can really murder your sex life that’s bigger than the Diddy trial,” O’Day, 41, exclusively shared with Us Weekly on Thursday, June 26, while supporting Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind. “And I talked to Homeland Security over a year and something ago. I haven’t been interested [in dating]. I haven’t had sex in years.”
O’Day was tapped to join Danity Kane by Diddy, 55, on MTV’s series Making the Band in the early 2000s. She later claimed that the disgraced rap mogul fired her from the group.
She has been following Diddy’s sex trafficking and racketeering trial in New York City since it began in May and continues to share her perspective on iHeartRadio’s “Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes Presents: Aubrey O’Day Covering the Diddy Trial” podcast. (Diddy has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denied all of the allegations against him.)
O’Day said the last person she was with romantically was Pras from the hip-hop group Fugees.
“I just haven’t had sex in a while,” she added. “I’m not really interested.”
When O’Day spoke with Us, the prosecution and defense teams were making their closing arguments in a New York City courtroom to the 12-person jury tasked with reaching a verdict in the case, which included seven weeks of often emotional and explicit testimony.
Us was inside the courtroom as the jury began its deliberations on Monday, June 30. Roughly 70 minutes into deliberations, the foreperson sent a note of concern to the judge, requesting one juror be interviewed for conduct because they “cannot follow your honor’s instructions.”
“I received your note. I remind every juror of their duty to deliberate and their obligation to follow my instruction on the law,” the judge wrote back. “With that instruction in mind, please continue deliberating.”
When asked if she’s ready to hear an assumed verdict in Diddy’s case, O’Day said “prepared” is not the correct word.
“Have I accepted all possibilities? No, no, I can’t. I can’t and I won’t, and I felt that way when I was younger, and now we’re here,” she said on Thursday. “Maybe I’ll have to feel that way till I die, or maybe I can get a tiny bit of a release, but you don’t let up and give up ever, or the system doesn’t change.”
In the upcoming reality show Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind, O’Day will join other celebrities and influencers on a “transformative journey of self-discovery” as they look back on their plastic surgery and decide whether they want to revise their cosmetic procedures.
During the season, O’Day will open up about her own self-confidence and share how the outside noise rarely had an impact on how she viewed herself.
“Working with Diddy at such a young age, I think people forget I grew up. My body grew up on camera,” she told Us. “When I first started, I wasn’t even allowed to be in scenes with alcohol. I was that young.”
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According to O’Day, Diddy had a vision for how the members of Danity Kane should look.
“You don’t really get your feelings hurt once you’ve had the biggest mogul in the industry tell you about yourself multiple times in front of the world,” she said. “Anything else that happened? It wasn’t that impactful.”
Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind premieres on E! Wednesday, July 9, at 10 p.m. E.T. with episodes becoming available through Peacock seven days after its air date.