Cardi B introduced each model, robust language, some laughter and a wide range of facial expressions to a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday (August 27) as her civil trial over an alleged 2018 assault continued with emotional testimony and a decide’s plea to “bring the temperature down.”

The Grammy-winning rapper arrived for Day 3 of the proceedings in Alhambra, California, wearing long jet-black hair—her third hairstyle in as many days.

But it wasn’t simply her look that turned heads.

While testifying, Cardi described the tense second she realized safety guard Emani Ellis was allegedly filming her with out consent.

“The camera was facing me. When I was walking and she was behind me, and then she said, ‘Oh my God, y’all, Cardi B. Cardi B, y’all.’ I looked back, and the camera was, like, right there. Like, practically on her chest type stuff. I’m like, yo, why you recording me?”

The rapper, who was secretly pregnant on the time, mentioned she felt weak and cornered.

“I said, b####, get the f### out of my face. Why are you in my face? Why are you recording me? Ain’t you supposed to be security?”

Cardi mentioned Ellis escalated the state of affairs by yelling, “You’re gonna get the f### out of my building. I can do whatever the f### I want,” and dismissing her superstar standing with, “I don’t give a f### who you are.”

As the questioning grew tense between Cardi and Ellis’s lawyer, the decide was compelled to intervene.

“Why don’t we just take the temperature down a little bit. If you have actual questions to ask her, please do so. It’s not the time to argue with her,” the decide mentioned.

Cardi additionally described how her being pregnant made her really feel bodily restricted through the incident.

“When you’re pregnant, you’re very disabled. You want me to tell you things I can’t do?” she mentioned, prompting laughter all through the courtroom.

Ellis’ lawsuit, filed in 2020, accuses Cardi B of scratching her face with long nails, spitting on her and causing emotional distress.

Cardi denied the claims, stating that the confrontation by no means escalated into bodily violence. “We’re literally screaming at each other,” she testified. “I didn’t touch her. It was like a verbal fight, but it didn’t get physical at all.”

The rapper emphasised that her nails on the time weren’t sharp and there was no method she may have left scars on Ellis’ face.

“The shape that I had that week, it wasn’t like a shape that is, like, harming. It was like a square coffin shape. So, it didn’t have, like, no points or, like, sharp edges and stuff like that,” Cardi B testified.

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