Jessica Sutta, a former member of The Pussycat Dolls, has said she was left out of the group’s upcoming reunion due to her support of RFK Jr.
The ‘Don’t Cha’ girl group announced earlier this month that they had reformed as a trio, with Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt, as part of a 20 year celebration of their debut album ‘PCD’.
Shortly after the announcement, original member Carmir Bachar – who was part of the first line-up alongside Scherzinger, Roberts, Wyatt, Sutta and Melody Thornton – alleged that she was not included in the reunion and that she learned of the plans “at the same time as the public.”
Now, Sutta has also spoken out about being excluded, saying she was “blindsided” by the news and saying that she thinks it’s due to her backing of Kennedy, the controversial U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, who she affectionately refers to as “Bobby.”
“I was a liability,” Sutta said in a new interview on The Maverick Approach podcast. “I align with Bobby Kennedy, which is aligning with MAGA.
“Do I love what Trump is doing? Absolutely not. I do not believe in war. But we didn’t have a chance for the [vaccine] injured community to get help without him,” she added. “Even though he doesn’t want us to exist, by the way. People are screaming at me, ‘You’re MAGA, you’re MAGA.’ Yeah, I am. I triple down on it because I’m so sick of people telling me who I should be.”
It comes after Sutta claimed last year to the Daily Mail that she suffers from chronic fatigue and muscle pain, among other medical issues, after receiving a second dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine in 2021.
She went on to call Kennedy “selfless” and a “wonderful human being,” and added that she helped him with his 2024 presidential election campaign, speaking at some events and publicly endorsing him, and noted that it was “bittersweet” when he dropped out of the race.
“I wanted to see him as president,” Sutta said. “I think he’s an amazing human. I think he’s too good to be president though. He has too big of a heart.”
When it came to her feelings about being left out of the Pussycat Dolls, Sutta said she was particularly upset with the group’s founder Robin Antin, who she claimed she had been trying to reach for months after hearing rumors of a possible reunion.
As for Scherzinger, Sutta said she gave her a call the day the announcement was made, but she “didn’t answer” the phone. “I don’t plan to call her back. I love Nicole, this is very bittersweet for me. I respect her as an artist. I even cried of joy when she won her Tony [for Sunset Boulevard] just recently… I definitely was rooting for her, but this showed me exactly why I’m not in the group. They showed exactly to me who they are.”
The reformed members recently spoke about the claims from Bachar, and said that not inviting original members on their upcoming reunion tour was to “protect our peace”.
The group will hit the road for a 53-date tour kicking off in North America in June with Lil’ Kim and Mya before hitting the UK and Ireland for nine dates in September with Kim as support.
These will include shows in Birmingham, Nottingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Dublin, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester, before the tour concludes with a date at London’s O2 Arena on October 13.
Tickets will go on general sale at 10am local time worldwide on Friday, March 20 and can be purchased in the UK here and US here. Fans can sign up for pre-sale tickets here by Monday, March 16 before they go on sale at 9am local time on Wednesday, March 18. You can find a full list of dates here.
The girl group have also shared new single ‘Club Song’ the first new material since 2019’s ‘React’. It is produced by Mike Sabbath (RAYE, Jade) and written by Scherzinger with Sabbath, Caroline Ailin (Dua Lipa) and Solly (Teddy Swims). Listen to it below.
The band have also announced a deluxe edition of their 2005 debut album on vinyl and digital with new and unreleased tracks on May 8. You can pre-order it here.
The group announced their reunion in 2019 and were set to head out on a run of UK and Ireland dates, but COVID-19 and a legal dispute halted their plans.
Of the reunion, Scherzinger told BBC News: “After 20 years, you’re like, ‘Where is everybody?’ But for us, it aligned. People are in different places in their lives, some of the other people have different commitments and priorities, but this worked out for us.”
Roberts explained it was Scherzinger who first “reached out” to the other Dolls about reuniting.
“We had some conversations, and we were just like, ‘We’re on the same page, we’re excited about embracing where we’re at now as women and celebrating that’,” she said.
“I’m just really excited to get back on stage and swing these hips around in some latex, hun!”
Leave a comment