Cardi B denies touching the security will in the testimony of the court

Alhambra, California (AP) -Cardi B testified on Wednesday that she did not touch a security guard that alleges that the rapper cut her face with a nail and spit it into an altercation outside the office of an obstetrician during the first pregnancy of the hip-hop star.

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

Ron Rosen Janfaza, lawyer’s lawyer, Emani Ellis, asked if he had been angry.

“Yes, I was angry!” Because I’m pregnant! “Cardi replied.

She acknowledged that the argument became very heated, repeating in the court a large part of the sworn that both did, and that they were chest in a moment, but said that the fight never became physics.

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

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Cardi said he had been visiting Los Angeles doing promotional work in February 2018 around the NBA stars game that year. He was four months after his pregnancy with the first of his three children with Rapper Offset. She had told her intimate circle that a baby was having, but not the public or her parents.

The obstetrician office had been closed to other patients on a Saturday for their privacy.

She said Ellis, a security guard of the building, followed her to her quote floor. Cardi said he listened to Ellis saying his name on a phone and seemed to be filming her. Cardi feared that Ellis was the fact that she was pregnant.

“I said: ‘Why are you recording?'” Cardi testified, “and she said: ‘Oh my God.’ She practically apologized.”

But the argument became increasingly heated, he said.

“While we argue that she is supporting me, she is entering me,” Cardi said.

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

“She is, for sure,” Cardi said. “She simply looks a little, as if she could protect the building.”

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Under the most friendly interrogation of one of his own lawyers, Cardi explained why he kept his pregnancy secret at that time, seven months after the launch of his first single and great label success, “Wedish Yellow”, when he was still in his “first year of first year” of stardom.

“I was getting used to things,” he said. “I was so worried about what everyone said and thought. I thought I was disappointing many people.”

But she said, beyond that, treasures her privacy in all medical matters, “especially something as sacred as a pregnancy. It is yours.”

A significant part of the testimony in acrylic nails was spent with imitation diamonds that Cardi had that week, and if they could do the damage that is alleged.

“It wasn’t a way that I was damaging, it had a coffin,” he said. “They were not acute.”

Ellis previously testified at the trial that the incident left her humiliated and traumatized, and the scar on her face required cosmetic surgery. Ellis, who lost his work for the incident, is looking for damage that includes medical expenses, compensation for emotional and physical suffering, and lost wages, along with punitive damage. She does not specify a total amount in demand, but Cardi said from the stand that “I demanded for $ 24 million.”

Land Malcolm, the doctor’s office receptionist who got between the two women and broke the argument, testified on Wednesday that he mainly supported Cardi’s account.

She said she entered the hall after listening to a uproar outside, but did not see physical fights. He later noticed a scratch on his own face that assumed that he came from Ellis, because he had been looking at her back to Cardi.

When he was asked to characterize the argument, Malcolm said he was not sure if he could swear in court.

“We have heard almost everything that until now, so it is fine,” said Judge Ian C. Fusselman who laughs much of the Court Chamber.

The testimony came in a small palace of justice outside Los Angeles in Alhambra, where the evidence involving celebrities are very rare. The trial is taking the rest of the week off and is expected to resume, and end next week.