As Hollywood grapples with the Harvey Weinstein scandal, a former member of famed girl group The Pussycat Dolls is unveiling some of her own shocking claims about the entertainment industry, alleging that the girl group was like a “prostitution ring.”
“My truth. I wasn’t in a girl group. I was in a prostitution ring,” Kaya Jones, 33, said in a tweet over the weekend. “Oh & we happened to sing & be famous. While everyone who owned us made the $.”
I hope all you Hollywood elites are a little nervous tonight.Who knows maybe tomorrow your family & friends will find out who you really are
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
While Jones said that she walked away from the group due to the horrific conditions, Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin hit back and called the claims “disgusting, ridiculous lies.”
Antin also argued that Jones was only a trial member of the group and simply didn’t pan out, as The Daily Mail reported.
Read some of Jones’ claims below (tweets are posted in the order they were sent):
The children you messed with that survived the abuse, we are adults now.Are you ready old ones to fight?Cause you all are looking mighty old
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
My truth.I wasn’t in a girl group. I was in a prostitution ring.Oh & we happened to sing & be famous. While everyone who owned us made the $
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
How bad was it?people ask-bad enough that I walked away from my dreams,bandmates&a 13 million dollar record deal.We knew we were going to#1
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
I want the den mother from hell to confess why another 1 of her girl group girls committed suicide?Tell the public how you mentally broke us
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
To be apart of the team you must be a team player.Meaning sleep with whoever they say.If you dont they have nothing on you to leverage
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
Yes I said leverage. Meaning after they turn you out or get you hooked on drugs they use it against you.Correct.Victimizing the victim again
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
That’s why I have so much respect for our military. I’ve been through war. But my scars you can’t see. At least real war is honest
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
Why don’t we report it? Because we are all abused! I personally have been warned if I tell I will … you know end up dead or no more career
— KAYA (@KayaJones) October 13, 2017
Antin told The Blast that she believes Jones is simply looking for 15 minutes of fame. The outlet also reported that sources say the band’s lawyer is preparing a letter to send to Jones asking her to stop spreading purported “lies.”
In the past, Jones has been more vague about her reasons for leaving the group, saying in 2005 that her departure was rooted in members not being on the same page.
“When everyone is not on the same page it affects the group so that I think was the worst part and I decided to leave,” she told Yahoo! Singapore. “It was not because I wanted to be solo and I didn’t want to be in a group anymore, I left because it stopped being enjoyable, it stopped being fun.”
This is hardly the first time Jones has been critical of Hollywood and the entertainment industry at large.
As Faithwire previously reported, she recently spoke out against abortion, saying in an interview with MRC Culture that Hollywood’s embrace of the procedure shows “how evil our world has become.”
It’s a stance that Jones publicly took in a tweet back in August as well when she wrote, “Hollywood elites push eating disorders, sex, drugs, & abortion on young women in the entertainment industry.”