I mean its more to it than..."lets get back together, and drop the album". Either way, going public made it almost impossible for that to happen.
Now the label would have to clean up the mess they made (PR disaster!). And if they STILL aren't getting along and won't promote it....that means the label would have to pay all of those writers/producers on an album that sold MINIMUM amount of copies (due to NO promotion). They wouldn't recoup the cost/investment.
The producers/writers could still get paid, if these songs are sold to another group (who can actually promote them)...which can't happen if they leak them.
Dawn shouldn't have hit her, but Shannon/Aubrey should have tried to work it out b/f going public. Two wrongs don't make a right. And we're seeing that now...