Cardi B appeared to get agitated at a lawyer’s line of questioning during her recent courtroom testimony.
“I was more on a high level of concern,” Cardi, 32, said on Wednesday, August 27, per footage shared via ABC7, which has since gone viral on social media.
When opposing counsel asked why the rap star was concerned, she shot back, “Because I was pregnant.” (Cardi shares daughter Kulture with ex-husband Offset, as well as two younger children.)
“And this girl’s about to f***ing beat my ass. Hello?” she said on the stand.
Cardi was accused in a 2020 lawsuit of assaulting a security guard outside of a medical office in Beverly Hills in 2018, while she was expecting Kulture. She denied the allegations, asserting that she only had a verbal altercation with the security official. (The guard is suing Cardi for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and false imprisonment.)
While on the stand during cross-examination, the attorney for the guard asked Cardi whether she thought the plaintiff was larger than her.
“I mean, look,” Cardi said, gesturing across the courtroom. “I was 130 pounds at the time. She was a little [bigger].”
The judge then struck down further comments about the guard’s weight before Cardi recalled how she was fearful that the then-verbal argument could have escalated into something physical.
Cardi B and Offset’s relationship has been a whirlwind with a secret wedding, a cheating scandal and three children together. The rappers tied the knot in September 2017 after having their first date at Super Bowl LI in Houston in February of that year. They announced in July 2017 that they were expecting a baby […]
“At that moment when you’re very pregnant, I’m very disabled,” she said. “You want me to tell you the things I can’t do? … I was pregnant, I couldn’t protect myself even if I wanted to. She’s, like, twice my size.”
Cardi had accused the guard of secretly recording her when she walked into her gynecologist appointment.
“I said, ‘F***, why are you recording me? Aren’t you supposed to be security?’” she recalled, maintaining that she never touched the guard. “She’s trying to get money … because she’s suing me for $24 million.”
She continued, “It was a verbal incident. She didn’t hit me. I didn’t hit her. There was no touching. So, to me, it wasn’t no incident.”
Cardi also denied the lawyer’s claims that she had called the guard a “bitch” and other slurs before trying to “take a swing” at her.
“No, [it was a] verbal fight,” she insisted. “It did not get physical at all. I didn’t touch her. She didn’t touch me.”
Cardi’s trial resumes Tuesday, September 2, after Labor Day weekend.
