While Carmit Bachar may not know why she wasn’t invited to the Pussycat Dolls‘ upcoming reunion tour, original member Jessica Sutta is pretty sure she knows exactly why she was left out.
In the latest episode of The Maverick Approach podcast, Sutta reveals to host Maverick Bailey why she believes she was not given the opportunity to return to the girl group this year.
“I aligned with Bobby Kennedy, which is aligned with MAGA,” Sutta said, adding, “I was a liability,” and calling the reunion a “cash grab.” Sutta shared that she previously didn’t identify as political but became so because her “life depended on it.”
In a 2025 interview with Daily Mail, Sutta shared that she suffered a “debilitating” injury that she attributes to the COVID-19 vaccine. Ultimately, this is what led to her connection to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she campaigned for during the 2024 U.S. presidential election. On the podcast, Sutta expresses that while she does not agree with everything President Trump does, because she feels strongly about health secretary RFK Jr. and his policies, she owns the MAGA label — even in the face of backlash.
“People are screaming at me, ‘You’re MAGA, You’re MAGA,’” she says. “Yeah, I am MAGA. I triple down on it because I’m sick of people telling me who I should be.”
This is not the first time Sutta has spoken out about the reunion. In the days following the band’s big announcement, she took to her Instagram with a length statement saying that she learned about the reunion right before it was made public, and that she “didn’t have much time to prepare for the reaction that followed online.”
“And if we are really being honest, you can’t trip on what’s behind you,” she concludes in her caption. “Good luck, ladies.”
Sutta is not the only member of the girl group to be excluded from the reunion event. After The Pussycat Dolls announced the three-person tour and released their new single, “Club Song,” Carmit Bachar took to Instagram to share that she did not know the reunion was happening.
“I was not contacted regarding the group’s decision to move forward, and I learned of these plans at the same time as the public,” Bachar wrote in the caption to her post. Ultimately, she’s decided to move on and focus on her well-being and upcoming projects.
The original six-piece lineup of Pussycat Dolls comprised of Nicole Scherzinger, Kimberly Wyatt, Ashley Roberts, Melody Thornton, Bachar and Sutta, with only Scherzinger, Wyatt and Roberts returning for the reunion. Though Bachar and Sutta — who were included in PCD’s 2020 reunion — have expressed their feelings on being excluded, Thornton — who hasn’t been part of the group since 2010 — has yet to speak out publicly.
