Cardi B appeared to get agitated at a lawyer’s line of questioning throughout her current courtroom testimony.
“I used to be extra on a excessive degree of concern,” Cardi, 32, stated on Wednesday, August 27, per footage shared by way of ABC7, which has since gone viral on social media.
When opposing counsel requested why the rap star was involved, she shot again, “As a result of I used to be pregnant.” (Cardi shares daughter Kulture with ex-husband Offset, in addition to two youthful kids.)
“And this lady’s about to f***ing beat my ass. Hiya?” she stated on the stand.
Cardi was accused in a 2020 lawsuit of assaulting a safety guard outdoors of a medical workplace in Beverly Hills in 2018, whereas she was anticipating Kulture. She denied the allegations, asserting that she solely had a verbal altercation with the safety official. (The guard is suing Cardi for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, negligence and false imprisonment.)
Whereas on the stand throughout cross-examination, the lawyer for the guard requested Cardi whether or not she thought the plaintiff was bigger than her.
“I imply, look,” Cardi stated, gesturing throughout the courtroom. “I used to be 130 kilos on the time. She was a little bit [bigger].”
The decide then struck down additional feedback concerning the guard’s weight earlier than Cardi recalled how she was fearful that the then-verbal argument might have escalated into one thing bodily.
“At that second whenever you’re very pregnant, I’m very disabled,” she stated. “You need me to inform you the issues I can’t do? … I used to be pregnant, I couldn’t shield myself even when I needed to. She’s, like, twice my measurement.”
Cardi had accused the guard of secretly recording her when she walked into her gynecologist appointment.
“I stated, ‘F***, why are you recording me? Aren’t you speculated to be safety?’” she recalled, sustaining that she by no means touched the guard. “She’s making an attempt to get cash … as a result of 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 additionally denied the lawyer’s claims that she had known as the guard a “bitch” and different slurs earlier than making an attempt to “take a swing” at her.
“No, [it was a] verbal struggle,” she insisted. “It didn’t get bodily in any respect. I didn’t contact her. She didn’t contact me.”
Cardi’s trial resumes Tuesday, September 2, after Labor Day weekend.