Aubrey O’Day Defends Attending Ye Shows Despite Condemning Diddy: “I Can Hold Two Truths At Once”

Yesterday Kanye West was denied entry into the UK, leading to the cancellation of Wireless, the London festival he was supposed to headline this July. Pepsi, Rockstar Energy, PayPal, and other companies had already removed their sponsorship from Wireless by that point, citing Ye's history of antisemitism and espousing Nazi rhetoric and imagery. Earlier this year he insisted he no longer holds those beliefs, which is convenient for him now that his new album BULLY is out. Ye apparently had no issue booking two nights at Inglewood's SoFi Stadium last week to promote BULLY, and plenty of people were happy to come out to the shows. One such person was former Danity Kane member Aubrey O’Day, whose support of Ye in particular has raised some eyebrows.

O'Day, for context, has long spoken out against Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was sentenced to 50 months in prison last October after being found guilty of two counts interstate transportation related to prostitution. Danity Kane were signed to Combs' label Bad Boy after forming on his MTV series Making The Band. O’Day was kicked out of the group in 2008, and in last year's Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, she said she believes her removal was due to "not participating sexually" with Combs, whom she alleged had also sent her sexually explicit emails.

Ye, meanwhile, faced a lawsuit from his former assistant in 2024, who accused him of drugging and raping her at one of Combs' parties. O'Day didn't seem all too worried about that when she posted a video of herself getting ready for "back-to-back" nights at Ye's SoFi shows: "I'm officially going back to see the biggest bully around," O'Day said in an Instagram story with Ye tagged. Fans have begun pointing out the hypocrisy, with one writing: "All that hootin and hollerin about Diddy's abuse, but you fail to keep that same energy with Kanye." O'Day wrote this back in response:

I can hold two truths at once.
I’ve been vocal about abuse because I’ve lived it, and I don’t excuse it, ever. That hasn’t changed. But I also don’t believe engaging with someone’s art means I co-sign every opinion or action they’ve ever had. If that were the rule, most of this industry-and honestly most of the world-would be off limits. What I don’t support is harm, exploitation, or violence. And I’ve been consistent about that. You can disagree with where I draw my line, but calling it hypocrisy ignores the nuance. It’s not black and white—and pretending it is doesn’t actually protect anyone. If supporting art required endorsing every belief of the artist, none of us would have careers, or playlists. I’ve been clear about where I stand on abuse. That doesn’t change because I attended a show.
Nuance isn’t hypocrisy, it’s reality.

Erykah Badu has also been getting some flak for attending both of Ye's shows. In one Instagram post, she said she was invited by Ye's wife Bianca Censori. In another video she shared of Lauryn Hill performing with Ye, she wrote: "I’m doing what Donda would do," referring to Ye's late mother.

On the other hand, Frank Ocean liked this Instagram reel about how a lot of the major companies and figureheads condemning Ye's antisemitism also have links to Israel. Something to think about!