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Singer Aubrey O’Day has revealed that she was recently rushed to the emergency room after suffering a violent physical illness she attributes to the trauma of watching the new Netflix docuseries, Sean Combs: The Reckoning. The former Danity Kane member shared on social media and in subsequent interviews that the experience of seeing the four-part series, which details allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs, triggered a severe physical breakdown.
On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, O’Day was forced to skip a highly anticipated Danity Kane reunion show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. From the hospital, she informed fans via Instagram that she had become “extremely sick,” experiencing symptoms including vertigo, fever, dizziness, migraines and continuous vomiting. “I’ve been fighting it all day, spinning around in my head trying to find any way to make this work,” she wrote, describing the situation as completely out of her control.
O’Day later clarified that her illness was a direct result of the psychological toll taken by the documentary. Despite being a participant in the project, she explained that seeing the footage and witness testimonies provided a context she had previously lacked. “Watching everything from Netflix unfold publicly… was like living it again, but this time with context and truth outside of me,” O’Day told TMZ. She noted that her nervous system appeared to be “reliving everything” with a clarity she had not anticipated.
In the docuseries, O’Day makes several harrowing claims, including that she was fired from Danity Kane in 2008 for refusing Combs’s sexual advances. She also reads an explicit email on camera that she alleges was sent by him during her time at Bad Boy Records. One of the most difficult moments involves her reacting to a witness affidavit from a 2005 incident, which alleges she was sexually assaulted while inebriated—an event she says she has no memory of and finds terrifying to contemplate.
Despite the severity of her hospitalization, O’Day expressed heartbreak over missing the Los Angeles stop of the group’s The Untold Chapter tour, where bandmates Aundrea Fimbres and D. Woods performed as a duo. However, she remained optimistic about her recovery, telling fans she intended to return to the stage for their next scheduled performance. The incident highlights the intense personal toll the ongoing legal and public scrutiny of the Bad Boy Records era continues to take on those who were inside it.