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Cardi B spent Tuesday (Aug. 26) back in a Los Angeles courtroom, this time walking jurors through a tense run-in from 2018 that’s landed her in the middle of a civil trial. The Bronx superstar painted the scene for the court: she was four months pregnant, heading to her OB-GYN in Beverly Hills, when what should’ve been a private visit suddenly turned public.
According to the ‘Bodak Yellow’ rapper, security guard Emani Ellis started trailing her with a phone camera as she walked through the office. “You’re recording me. Now you’re following me, like back up,” Cardi recalled telling Ellis on the stand. “And she’s like, ‘I can do what I want.’ It’s like, ‘No, you can’t. You can’t do what you want.’ And that’s when we started arguing.”
The rapper made it clear that the encounter never got physical, though she admitted the two were “chest-to-chest” at one point. “It was a verbal incident,” she stressed. “She didn’t hit me. I didn’t hit her. There was no touching. So, to me, it wasn’t no incident.”
Cardi B told the jury she was especially shaken because of her condition at the time. Weighing just 130 pounds while pregnant, she said she felt vulnerable facing someone she described as much larger. “I wasn’t able to defend myself,” she explained, noting how on edge she felt.
When pressed about Ellis’s accusations—that the ‘WAP’ rapper spat at her, threw racial slurs, and even swung at her—the Grammy winner flatly denied them all. “I didn’t touch her. She didn’t touch me,” Cardi insisted. Asked if their exchange was a fight, she offered her own spin: “We were debating.” The response sparked laughter around the courtroom.
But Ellis told a very different story. Taking the stand, she claimed the rapper snapped as soon as she recognized her in the lobby. Ellis testified that Cardi B accused her of plotting to leak details about the private appointment, mocked her weight and job, and tried to swing at her. She went further, saying the “Outside” rapper spat at her, called her the N-word, and left a scratch on her face with one of her nails.
The trial now hinges on which version of events jurors choose to believe: Cardi’s recollection of a heated but harmless “debate,” or Ellis’s account of an outright assault.
