Former PussyCat Doll Escaped R. Kelly, Diddy, (and found Jesus)
The Deep End With Lecrae
Lecrae
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Former Pussycat Doll, Kaya Jones, opens up to Lecrae about the dark side of fame, the spiritual war behind the music industry, and how Jesus redeemed her life.
From being signed by R. Kelly at 12 years old to witnessing the deepest corruption in pop culture, Kaya reveals what really happens behind the stage lights - and how God rescued her from the darkness. She shares the pain of industry abuse, abortion, and manipulation, and the supernatural ways God called her out of it all.
In this powerful conversation, Lecrae and Kaya talk about:
- The demonic systems running the entertainment industry
- Finding identity and freedom through Christ
- Why she left the Pussycat Dolls at their peak
- How Messianic Judaism reshaped her faith
- What it means to live fully redeemed in a broken culture
This episode exposes what many are afraid to say — but also points to the hope that never dies: Jesus still redeems the most unlikely stories.
Let's go to the Deep End!
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of stuff, Diddy has been indicted on terrible stuff, heinous things. |
| 0:03.8 | You've been talking about him before everybody else was. |
| 0:07.1 | I did. Nobody listened. |
| 0:08.5 | It was more important to protect people in power and positions. |
| 0:12.2 | My God is greater than all of you men. |
| 0:16.1 | Period. I don't care if he has influence and he can shut me up. |
| 0:19.4 | I don't care. |
| 0:20.4 | This is my soul and it's not for sale anymore. It's not, I get that job, but that led me to be signed to R. Kelly. So, Art Kelly is actually who discovered Cuyahown. Okay, hold it. Yeah, that's a whole thing. Wait a minute. I'm out. When I'm talking about what I've seen. And you're 12? 12. Yikes. Yikes. You know, the devil doesn't chain you. He gives you each link and you in bondage yourself. It's not a, let me just wrap you around. It's here's one. And then you just start putting them together because you're just like, well, this is fun. And before you know it, the chains are so heavy. The name was sex. You're singing about sex. You look like sex. First, it was cool. But then it was like, this is weird. Tiny little skirt, tiny little shirt. And I was still bleeding from losing my child the day before. And there's these two little girls in the front row. And she just looked at the little one and said, |
| 1:11.2 | Mama, she's a pussycat doll. |
| 1:13.0 | And that was like a check in my spirit. |
| 1:15.1 | Like, you can't do this. |
| 1:16.4 | You really can't do this. |
| 1:19.6 | This is the deep end with La Cray. |
| 1:24.1 | Okay. |
| 1:25.1 | Well, as a music artist, I have been privy to see things that most people probably would not be exposed to. |
| 1:34.4 | However, I'm a Christian in this world. |
| 1:37.9 | So I have not fully ever just given myself into the world of entertainment at the darkest levels possible. |
| 1:50.0 | But we do have a unique guest here today who is redeemed, transformed, and God-fearing but spent some time uh in the depths of the darkness uh of the of the |
| 2:08.0 | industry and um I'm excited for you all to hear her vantage point her perspective and how God has done |
| 2:14.3 | some redemptive stuff in her life and made her a leader in many respects. So we have |
| 2:20.0 | Kyah Jones here with us today. Thank you so much. Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah. It's true. I'm excited. |
| 2:27.1 | Like I said, I'm excited because a lot of times people speak from speculative perspectives and they don't have real life experience and |
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