Aubrey O'Day talks return to reality television on Oxygen's "All About Aubrey"

Aubrey O'Day was a headlining member of Diddy and "Making the Band"-assisted girl group Danity Kane before she was unceremoniously fired from the group on national television. With MTV's television cameras having caught her rise to fame, it seems a natural fit that she'd open her life to a camera crew again for "All About Aubrey," the new Oxygen show which chronicles her musical comeback on her own terms.

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Or is it? After her "Making the Band" experience, O'Day escaped to Broadway to star on "Hairspray" and later to Vegas for their sexy musical "Peepshow." The last we'd heard of Aubrey were an MTV News interview and a few blogs following the split. She says getting back into reality TV was the last thing on her mind.

"Well I think after being fired in Making the Band and Diddy and Danity Kane kind of went under, I felt like that was the last thing I wanted to do," Aubrey O'Day told CNS. "I had a lot of like anger and frustration toward what I had gone through and a lot of like not understanding the way the business is and things like that that I hadn't like reached a comfortable position with at that point."

Now, it's been three years since Danity Kane released their second and final platinum album, "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and it took Aubrey over a year on stage to start contemplating her comeback to the pop music scene.

She teamed up with famed music manager Johnny Wright, responsible for overseeing the ultra-successful careers of top pop acts like the Jonas Brothers, Justin Timberlake, and Britney Spears. She also hooked up with some of Danity Kane's songwriters and producers, but this time going it completely alone.

Aubrey says she knows a second shot at fame is even harder than the first, and she then realized that this journey would be yet another chapter in her life that would make for great television.

"You know, we've been accustomed to seeing so many girl groups rise to fame and falling in love with them and then however they break up, get dismantled, whatever it may be, it kind of just goes away, disappears, you never hear from them again or maybe you hear from the one that stood out," Aubrey told us.

"But you never really understand why or even how hard it is to have success a second time potentially on your own. And I really felt like that was a good story to tell and I think Oxygen felt like I was a good person to tell it because of how honest I am with my low moments as well as my highs."

Aubrey says "Making the Band" was real as far as reality television goes, and she wanted to get back to that same completely unscripted style for "All About Aubrey." The cameras followed her 24 hours a day and she says she was never handed any outlines or scripts to chronicle her journey as she gets back into the recording studio 4 girls lighter.

"Everything is honest to God the truth of what was happening at that point in my life," Aubrey says. "And I feel like really blessed and like it really helped a lot to be able to get out all the things that had been like weighing heavy on my heart for so long."

Fans will be able to see "All About Aubrey" when the show premieres on Oxygen Monday, March 7th at 10:00pm ET.