Jessica Sutta believes her support for Robert F Kennedy Jr cost her the chance to reunite with the Pussycat Dolls on their upcoming PCD Forever Tour.
Earlier this month, the group announced they would be returning as a trio with Nicole Scherzinger, Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt hitting the road on a 53-date world tour.
Originally a six-member pop group with Carmit Bachar and Melody Thornton part of the lineup before they disbanded in 2010, the Pussycat Dolls then returned for a 2019 reunion tour without Thornton, who declined to join them.
The latest formation has additionally lost Sutta and Bachar.
Sutta said she was “blindsided” by the comeback and chalked up the decision to her backing controversial US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy, whom Sutta refers to as “Bobby”.
“I was a liability,” she explained on a recent episode of The Maverick Approach podcast.
“I align with Bobby Kennedy, which is aligning with MAGA (Make America Great Again).
“Do I love what Trump is doing? Absolutely not. I do not believe in war. But we didn’t have a chance for the injured community to get help without him,” she insisted, referring to vaccine victims, including herself.
“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.”
Sutta shared that Dolls lead singer Scherzinger called her the day the tour 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, but this showed me exactly why I’m not in the group. They showed exactly to me who they are.”
