On a humid Saturday evening, a small audience gathered at the Public Theater to watch D. Woods (yagirldwoods), a former member of the late-aughts girl group Danity Kane, stage a one-woman show. The day before, just over a mile away at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, a lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’d discovered D. Woods and the rest of the group on the MTV reality show ‘Making the Band,’ had given his closing argument to defend the hip-hop mogul against sex-trafficking charges — including accusations that he drugged multiple women and forced them into marathon sex parties he called “Freak Offs.” “On one hand, I feel like it’s God’s timing,” she says of performing during Diddy’s trial. “On the other hand, I don’t want people thinking I’m being opportunistic.” She adds: “I’ve been using my art to process my experience without even knowing what I’m processing. My subconscious has been telling me to write a song about it.” A few days before the show, angie_chapin met D. Woods i...