Aubrey O’Day Alleges Diddy Controlled Her Appearance ‘Down to My Toenails’ on ‘Making the Band’

Aubrey O’Day claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs had a hand in controlling her appearance while filming Making the Band.

O’Day, then 21, was a contestant for the MTV reality show’s third iteration and ultimately landed a coveted spot in the Diddy-backed group, Danity Kane.

On the inaugural episode of the Crysis Queen Podcast, the 40-year-old singer recalled the ways the now-disgraced music mogul allegedly controlled her blonde bombshell image on the series.

“I was not popular—I was on dance and chair because I'm talented, and I did great at the auditions, I'm sure. But I wasn't the pretty girl, I wasn't even pretty,” O’Day said of her appearance at the 28:23 mark in the video above.

“I look at the beginning of Making the Band and little Aubrey auditioning and I'm like I don't know how I became the sexy face one because I just look like every average other bitch around. I wasn't specifically prettier than anybody at any time in my mind,” she added.

She continued, “This part of me—it's like he's on camera saying how much he hates it but he's off camera telling me all the ways that I needed to be groomed properly. I mean, down to my toenails,” she confessed. “I was sent out of a studio session one time because my toes weren't polished properly.”

O’Day also alleged that Diddy brought her into a recording studio one night to scold her for not singing on the first verse for the group’s debut single, “Show Stopper.” She countered by saying that it’s not her place to tell a producer what he can do with his track.

“He was like, ‘You're the looker of my band. You think I can start off this music video with this girl?’” she said of Diddy’s alleged off-camera behavior.

Further into the podcast, O’Day said that Diddy made her re-record the single to place her at the top of the song. The move ultimately led to tensions in the rehearsal studio.

“We'd be in rehearsal the next day with Laurie Ann [Gibson] and they'd bring in the final mastered version of the song. We are already rehearsing for our music video—we all did so many transitions, everything was locked,” O’Day recalled. “Then the song starts playing and it's not this one on the first hook anymore, it's me. And everyone's looking at me like, ‘Bitch, when did you do that?’”

“How do I go to a group member and say, ‘Hey, he doesn't think you look good. He didn't want your face out the gate on the music video and he preferred mine.’ I'm not going to say that to someone I respect.”

Two months before Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura came forward with a lawsuit last November that accused him of rape and abuse, O’Day claimed that Diddy sent the Danity Kane members non-disclosure agreements in exchange for their publishing rights. The NDAs asked that the signees would be barred from publicly disparaging him and his associates. Other Bad Boy artists including Mase, The Lox, Faith Evans, and the estate of the Notorious B.I.G. were reportedly sent similar agreements.

“When I went to look at the publishing deal, it said anything but I’m being made whole financially again," O'Day said on TMZ’s The Downfall of Diddy documentary. "In fact, it asked me to not be able to have access to my story and my experience anymore. It asked me specifically to stay silent and never speak poorly about a human. So then I realized something really bad is coming.”

Earlier this month, Danity Kane member Dawn Richard, 41, filed her own lawsuit against Diddy, accusing him of physical abuse and sexual assault.