Cardi B returned to the witness post on Wednesday in a civil lawsuit filed by a security guard that alleged that the rapper assaulted it, even scratching it with one of its nail extensions, in an incident of 2018 in the hallway outside the office of an obstetrician of Beverly Hills.
On Wednesday, the artist criticized the plaintiff, saying he is looking for a payment. Emani Ellis is looking for $ 24 million. Cardi B said that the couple died and exchanged words with heating, but nothing more.
Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, reiterated in his testimony that he never touched, struck or spit the security guard, whom he believed he was taking a video of her with his cell phone.
His defense received an impulse on Wednesday with the testimony of the obstetrician with whom the 4 -month pregnant rapper had an appointment on the day of the incident, on February 24, 2018, as well as his receptionist.
The receptionist Earth Malcolm told the jury that he saw Ellis Corner Cardi B, and then, when the receptionist got between them, the guard reached the rapper. The receptionist said he ended with a cut on his own front.
Dr. David Finke testified that he saw the guard causing that injury and also hit the receptionist's shoulder. In addition, he said that Ellis had no injuries on his face. Both testified that they never saw Cardi B hit Ellis.
But the rapper testified that when a doctor's staff asked Ellis that day what had happened, Ellis said: “The B only hit me.” … And I'm so confused because … I didn't hit you. “
Under the interrogation for Ellis's lawyer, the rapper acknowledged that she and Ellis were chest chest as expletives exchanged.
Ellis filed a lawsuit in 2020, claiming assault, aggression and intentional inflicence of emotional anguish, as well as negligence and false imprisonment.
He worked as a security guard in the building where Cardi B had his medical appointment and said during the testimony of Monday that he was doing his rounds when he saw the celebrity leave the elevator. She testified that she was overwhelmed by emotion and declared: “Wow, is Cardi B.”
Ellis claimed that the artist turned to her and said: “Why are you telling the people you have seen me?” Cardi B then accused her of trying to spread news about her in the doctor's office, he testified.
Cardi B cursed her, used the word N and other insults, called her names, threatened her work, embarrassed her and made fun of her career, Ellis said. She claimed that Cardi B spat, hit her and scratched her left cheek with a 2 to 3 -inch nail.
The rapper said during the judicial procedures on Wednesday that he has 5 feet 3 and that he had 130 pounds and was pregnant at that time. She would not have tried to fight the guard, who was much bigger, she said.
When asked if he was “disabled” during the incident, Cardi B's comments laugh in the courtroom: “At that time, when you are pregnant, I am very disabled,” he said with a roll of the eyes. “Do you want me to tell you the things I can't do?”
Malcolm said Cardi B was the only patient who visited the office that day, since he had been closed for his privacy.
When the incident occurred, the receptionist said: “I really saw Mrs. Ellis in front of her and that is what made me hurry and enter the environment.” Malcolm acknowledged that he did not see all the interaction between the couple.
When he got between them, Malcolm testified that he faced Ellis, who was reaching his arms. Malcolm said he suffered a cut on his forehead during the incident.
“Cardi B was behind me. The only assumption I had was that it was Mrs. Ellis while I faced me,” he testified. “I see his hands trying to reach me.”
When asked if Cardi B could have caused the injury with one of her nails, she replied: “But it was behind me.” She said she was a nurse who noticed the cut on her forehead.
The doctor said he was “with greeting with the accusations that do not seem congruent with what I saw that day.”
After the incident, he said he finally persuaded Ellis to get on the elevator and leave the floor.
Cardi B testified on Wednesday that her followers on social networks alerted her that the guard had connected on the incident, where she responded, calling the accusations.
The defense ended at the end of Wednesday's session.
For the third day of the trial, the rapper, known for his daring style options, put on a long black wig. The first day of the test, Lucia Short Black Hair, followed the next day by a blond hairs of Showgirl.
