"Somebody constantly treating you like a piece of meat" — Former Danity Kane member opens up on alleged predatory experience with Diddy

D. Woods, a former member of Danity Kane, opened up about the "troubling interactions" she claims to have with rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs. Woods, who was a member of the Combs-discovered former girl group from 2005 to 2008, talked about Diddy for the first time since his arrest in a Good Morning America interview on Monday, January 27.

"I would say that this moment now is a time where I feel like my experience, my truth will really be heard and actually considered and believed.”

A clip from the documentary series was also shown during the interview in which Woods claimed to have seen herself standing in shadowy, frightening, "predatory experience" and allegedly hearing some dehumanizing things said to her.

Talking about it, when ABC News' Eva Pilgrim asked "How was it predatory?" Woods responded:

"Somebody constantly treating you like a piece of meat, only seeing, only valuing you for your s*x appeal. In some of the environments, it was even scary to be by yourself."

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Former Danity Kane member talked about Diddy hours before the release of the documentary The Fall of Diddy

Diddy is still in prison (Image via Getty Images)

The Danity Kane singer talked about the alleged "troubling interactions" with the music mogul, who helped her advance her career before allegedly destroying it. Talking about her interaction with Diddy, she further said:

"You know, he is looked at as a hero of our community, and myself included, I looked up to him too. So a lot of people don't want to believe that their hero can be this other person."

Woods then informed Pilgrim that she believed Combs fostered a verbally hostile work environment when she worked at Danity Kane. She claimed that Combs also allegedly acted differently with each of the members. According to reports, he would probe and pick at them before praising them.

Pilgrim, 42, also questioned Woods about why she decided to come forward with the accusations at this time. Woods then answered:

“It’s more of a question of why I have not been able to speak up in the past, and I would say that this moment now is a time where I feel like my experience, my truth will really be heard and actually considered and believed.”

She further claimed that a lot of people don't want to believe that their hero can be this other person. She then added that Combs was regarded as a "hero of our community," and she too "looked up to him."

The singer then told Pilgrim that she was unsure of what she would say if she had the opportunity to speak with Diddy now. Talking about the same, she said:

"I honestly do not know, but I don't think you really have to say anything, as long as I'm holding my head up high and my shoulders back.”

Woods is also making her first public remarks regarding her collaboration with Combs on the Investigation Discovery (ID) documentary The Fall of Diddy, which is scheduled to premiere on Investigation Discovery on January 27 and be available on Max.

According to a January 27 report by People, Combs' lawyers issued a statement to GMA in response to the documentary. They claimed the producers didn’t give the rapper’s team enough time or information to address unverified claims, many of which reportedly came from unnamed sources and lacked context. They also accused the producers of blocking Diddy from presenting evidence to counter these accusations.

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Combs, who was arrested in September 2024 on suspicion of s*x trafficking, is still being held at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after a court refused to grant him bail.

According to US prosecutors, Diddy was arrested because he has allegedly "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his s*xual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct" since 2008.