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Former Pussycat Dolls personnel Jessica Sutta is speaking retired aft being excluded from nan girl group’s upcoming reunion tour, saying she believes her governmental views, including her support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., made her a “liability.”
On March 12, nan Pussycat Dolls announced their PCD Forever Tour, featuring only 3 members — Nicole Scherzinger, Kimberly Wyatt and Ashley Roberts — while different original members, including Sutta, Carmit Bachar and Melody Thornton, were near out.
During a March 22 quality connected “The Maverick Approach” podcast, Sutta, 43, claimed that she, Bachar and Thornton were not told astir nan reunion successful advance.
“None of america were called. None of america were told astir anything,” Sutta said. “In fact, we were blindsided.”
The vocalist explained that she heard rumors astir a imaginable reunion and claimed she many times tried to interaction Pussycat Dolls laminitis Robin Antin, 64, but could not scope nan choreographer until nan nighttime that nan news leaked.
“She didn’t springiness maine each nan details, but I conscionable — I started conscionable to cry. I was like, ‘How situation you?’ Like you had nary respect astatine all,” Sutta said.
Sutta said Scherzinger, 47, called her nan pursuing time erstwhile nan circuit was announced, but Sutta was excessively wounded to answer.
“I don’t scheme to telephone her back,” Sutta said. “I emotion Nicole. This is very bittersweet for me. I respect her arsenic an artist. I moreover cried pinch joyousness erstwhile she won her Tony just recently.”
In June 2025, Scherzinger won her first Tony Award, taking location nan champion starring character trophy for her domiciled arsenic Norma Desmond successful “Sunset Boulevard.”
“I decidedly was rooting for her, but nan measurement they did this conscionable showed maine precisely why I’m not successful nan group,” Sutta said. “And they showed exactly, to me, who they are.”
In caller years, nan vocalist has been outspoken astir experiencing serious, ongoing wellness issues that she said began aft she received a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. Sutta, who said she is besides dealing pinch a neurological condition, shared her sentiment that she was sidelined from nan reunion circuit owed to her support for RFK Jr.
Sutta publically backed RFK Jr. during his 2024 statesmanlike run, attending run events, posting astir him connected societal media and speaking astatine rallies, citing shared views connected wellness and vaccines pursuing her ain aesculapian struggles.
“It’s a rate grab. I mean, travel on. Let’s support it real, right?” Sutta said of nan reunion tour. “And I was a liability.
“I align pinch Bobby Kennedy, which is aligning pinch MAGA,” she continued. “Do I emotion what [President Donald] Trump is doing? Absolutely not. I do not judge successful war. [But] we didn’t person a chance for nan [vaccine]-injured organization to get thief without him.
“People are screaming astatine me, ‘You’re MAGA, you’re MAGA.’ Yeah, I am. I triple down connected it because I’m like, I’m truthful sick of group telling maine who I should be.
“So, it’s unfortunate,” Sutta said. “I was ne'er political, but I had to because my life depends connected it.”
Sutta described helping RFK Jr. pinch his statesmanlike run arsenic “incredible” and admitted it was “a small bittersweet” erstwhile he dropped retired and endorsed Trump.
“I wanted to spot him arsenic president,” she said. “I deliberation he’s an astonishing human. I deliberation he’s excessively bully to beryllium president though. Like he has excessively large of a heart.”
Sutta was a personnel of nan Pussycat Dolls from 2003 to 2010, joining arsenic nan group transitioned from a burlesque creation troupe into a signaling enactment and remaining done its highest success.
After her departure, Sutta launched a solo career, releasing 2 workplace albums, including “Feline Resurrection” (2016) and “I Say Yes” (2017) and scoring 4 No. 1 singles connected Billboard’s US Dance Club Songs chart.
Sutta antecedently reunited pinch nan Pussycat Dolls for a planned 2019 reunion earlier it yet fell isolated successful 2020.
