Cardi B Denies Touching Security Guard In Court Testimony

ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — Cardi B testified Wednesday that she didn’t touch a security guard who alleges the rapper cut her face with a fingernail and spat on her in an altercation outside an obstetrician’s office during the hip-hop star’s not-yet-public first pregnancy.

“She couldn’t get a scratch from me because I didn’t touch her,” Cardi said on the stand in her second day of testimony in a Los Angeles County court.

Ron Rosen Janfaza, lawyer for the plaintiff, Emani Ellis, asked her if she had been angry.

“Yes I was angry!” Because I’m pregnant!” Cardi replied. “And this girl’s about to beat my ass!”

She acknowledged that the argument got very heated — repeating in court much of the swearing the two did — and that they were chest-to-chest at one point, but said the fight never became physical.

“She didn’t touch me,” Cardi said. “She was going to touch me, but she didn’t get to touch me.”

Cardi said she had been visiting Los Angeles doing promotional work in February 2018 around that year’s NBA All-Star Game. She was four months into her pregnancy with the first of her three children with rapper Offset. She had told her inner circle she was having a baby, but not the public or her parents.

The obstetrician’s office had been closed to other patients on a Saturday for her privacy.

She said Ellis, a security guard for the building, followed her to her fifth-floor appointment. Cardi said she heard Ellis say her name into a phone and appeared to be filming her. Cardi feared Ellis would out the fact that she was pregnant.

“I told her, ‘Why are you recording?’” Cardi testified, “and she said, ’Oh my bad.’ She practically apologized.’”

But the argument grew increasingly heated, she said.

“As we were arguing she’s backing me, she’s walking into me,” Cardi said.

Both women are 32 years old and about the same height, but Cardi said Ellis was bigger than her.

“She is like, security-heavy,” Cardi said. “She just looks a little, like she could protect the building.”

Under friendlier questioning from one of her own attorneys, Cardi explained why she was keeping her pregnancy secret at the time, seven months after…