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Aubrey
O’Day
and
Dawn
Richard,
former
Danity
Kane
members
,
have
spoken
out
in
support
of
Cassie,
following
her
lawsuit
against
their
ex-manager,
Sean
“Diddy”
Combs.
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Clark
/
Getty
As
previously
reported
Cassandra
“Cassie”
Ventura
filed
a
lawsuit
against
the
music
mogul
on
Thursday,
which
alleges
her
ex-boyfriend
spent
years
abusing
her
while
she
was
signed
to
his
record
label.
After
meeting
Diddy
when
she
was
only
19,
the
singer
claims
her
then-boyfriend
began
controlling
her
through
a
“lifestyle
of
excessive
alcohol
and
substance
abuse”
in
addition
to
mental
and
physical
harm.
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Jon
Kopaloff
FilmMagic
/
Getty
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Following
news
of
this
bombshell
lawsuit,
two
other
women
who
were
signed
to
Diddy’s
Bad
Boy
Records
have
spoken
out
in
support
of
Cassie.
Aubrey
O’Day
and
Dawn
Richard
are
former
members
of
girl
group
Danity
Kane,
which
was
formed
on
MTV’s
reality
TV
show
Making
The
Band
in
2005.
They
went
on
to
be
signed
by
Diddy,
and
though
their
years
as
an
active
group
were
sporadic,
all
of
the
women
have
experience
working
with
the
mogul.
Richard
took
to
X
to
voice
her
support
for
Cassie
after
news
broke,
writing:
“Praying
for
Cassie
and
her
family,
for
peace
and
healing.
You
are
beautiful
and
brave.”
O’Day
also
responded
to
the
news,
taking
to
her
Instagram
to
post
a
screenshot
of
the
lawsuit
headline
in
her
Story
and
writing,
“Been
trynna
tell
y’all
for
years.
Prayers
up
for
this
queen
@cassie.”
In
another
upload,
she
shared
a
clip
from
Making
The
Band,
which
showed
Diddy
and
O’Day
getting
into
a
yelling
match
before
he
stood
up
and
questioned
why
she
should
be
in
the
group.
She
added
a
caption
to
the
clip
that
read:
“If
you
think
what
made
the
cut
was
as
ugly
as
it
got…
you’re
wrong.”
Aubrey
also
shared
another
photo
of
Diddy
and
referenced
his
song,
“Lonely,”
writing,
“He
was
right.
It
gets
dark
and
lonely.”
O’Day
previously
spoke
out
against
Diddy
in
December
2022,
claiming
on
an
episode
of
the
Call
Her
Daddy
podcast
that
she
was
fired
from
the
label
because
she
“wasn’t
willing
to
do
what
was
expected.”
“Not
talent-wise,
but
in
other
areas,”
she
told
the
host.
“You
know,
I
have
such
a
love-hate
[relationship]
with
it
all
because
I
don’t
think
I
would’ve
been
able
to
be
so
successful
in
so
many
other
areas
had
I
not
been
trained
under
Diddy,”
Aubrey
admitted. “He
was
the
hardest
person
that
you
can
work
for,
and
it
was
torture.
And
not
the
work
part
of
it,
but
the
other
stuff
—
mind
games.”
She
also
spoke
out
against
Diddy
giving
artists
their
publishing
rights
if
they
agreed
to
sign
NDAs.
In
an
interview
with
Cosmopolitan
in
2018,
the
group
said
that
Diddy
would
try
“power
moves”
to
prove
he
owned
their
careers.
At
the
time,
Richard
said
the
women
would
have
to
walk
on
eggshells
every
time
they
spoke
to
him.
