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Cardi B<\/a> said in court<\/a> Wednesday she didn\u2019t spit on or scratch a security guard who has sued the rapper, accusing her of assault.<\/p>\n

Emani Ellis\u2019 lawsuit stemmed from a 2018 altercation outside an obstetrician\u2019s office while Cardi B was pregnant with her first child, Kulture. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe couldn\u2019t get a scratch from me because I didn\u2019t touch her,\u201d Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Alm\u00e1nzar, testified in a Los Angeles County court. <\/p>\n

The rapper said she thought Ellis, who was a security guard for the building, was \u201cabout to beat my a**\u201d in the altercation that had the two chest-to-chest at one point, but she said it never became physical. <\/p>\n

\"Cardi<\/p>\n

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Cardi B said in court Wednesday she didn\u2019t spit on or scratch a security guard who has sued the rapper, accusing her of assault (Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t touch me,” Cardi said. “She was going to touch me, but she didn\u2019t get to touch me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cardi said she had been visiting Los Angeles<\/a> doing promotional work in February 2018 around that year\u2019s NBA All-Star Game. <\/p>\n

She was four months into her pregnancy with the first of her three children with rapper Offset<\/a>. At that point, her pregnancy was not announced to the public. <\/p>\n

Cardi said Ellis followed her to her fifth-floor appointment, and that she heard the security guard say her name into a phone and appeared to be filming her. <\/p>\n

\u201cI told her, \u2018Why are you recording?\u2019\u201d Cardi testified, \u201cand she said, \u2018Oh my bad.’ She practically apologized.’\u201d <\/p>\n

But the argument grew increasingly heated, she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs we were arguing she\u2019s backing me, she\u2019s walking into me,\u201d Cardi said. <\/p>\n

A significant chunk of the testimony was spent on the acrylic nails with rhinestones Cardi had that week and whether they could do the damage that she\u2019s accused of doing.<\/p>\n

\"Emani<\/p>\n

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Emani Ellis\u2019 lawsuit stemmed from a 2018 altercation outside an obstetrician\u2019s office while Cardi B was pregnant with her first child with rapper Offset (Noam Galai\/Getty Images for MTV)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a shape that was harming, it was coffin-shaped,\u201d she said. \u201cThey weren\u2019t sharp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellis, who lost her job over the incident, testified earlier in the trial that the incident left her humiliated and traumatized and claimed the scar on her face required cosmetic surgery. <\/p>\n

The security guard is seeking damages that include medical expenses, compensation for emotional and physical suffering, and lost wages.<\/p>\n

She does not specify a total amount in the lawsuit but Cardi said from the stand that she is \u201csuing me for $24 million.” <\/p>\n

\"Cardi<\/p>\n

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Cardi said from the stand that the security guard is ‘suing me for $24 million’ (Elsa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Tierra Malcolm, the receptionist from the doctor’s office who got between the two women and broke up the argument, gave testimony Wednesday that mostly supported Cardi’s account. <\/p>\n

She said she came into the hallway after hearing a ruckus outside but saw no physical fighting.<\/p>\n

Malcolm later noticed a scratch on her own face, that she assumed came from Ellis, because she had been facing her with her back to Cardi. <\/p>\n

Asked to characterize the argument, Malcolm said she wasn’t sure if she could swear to it in court. <\/p>\n

The trial is expected to resume and conclude next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-98305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}