Online Desk : FILE – Cardi B attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Rapper Cardi B testified Wednesday that she did not touch a security guard who accused her of scratching her face and spitting during an argument outside an obstetrician’s office in 2018, when she was pregnant with her first child.

“I didn’t touch her,” Cardi said on the second day of her testimony in Los Angeles County court. She admitted being angry due to her pregnancy but insisted the argument, while heated and chest-to-chest at times, never became physical.

Cardi explained that she had been in Los Angeles for promotional work during the NBA All-Star Game and was keeping her pregnancy private. She claimed the security guard, Emani Ellis, followed her and appeared to be filming her, which prompted the confrontation.

The 32-year-old rapper said she feared Ellis would reveal her pregnancy and added that at the time she was still adjusting to fame after her first major hit, Bodak Yellow, and worried about public reaction.