Cardi B left a Los Angeles courtroom momentarily speechless Tuesday (August 26) when her ever-changing hairstyles and extra-long nails grew to become the surprising focus of her civil assault trial testimony.
After arriving in courtroom with a modern black pixie wig on Monday, the rapper confirmed up Tuesday in a lengthy blonde quantity, prompting confusion from the plaintiff’s lawyer throughout cross-examination.
“On the date of the incident, did you may have black hair, blonde hair, or totally different colour hair?” the lawyer requested.
Cardi stated she didn’t keep in mind, however confirmed she was carrying a hoodie.
The lawyer pressed additional, stating the distinction between her two courtroom appearances.
“Yesterday you had black hair, quick hair,” he stated. “In the present day it’s blonde and lengthy. Which one is your actual hair? Or are they each actual?”
Cardi set free amusing earlier than responding, “They’re wigs.”
“Okay. Sorry, I didn’t know that. It’s an excellent wig at the moment then,” the lawyer replied.
The questioning then shifted to Cardi’s fingernails, with the lawyer asking her to point out them to the courtroom.
“How lengthy are these fingernails?” he requested, earlier than diving into an in depth inquiry about their form and elegance. Cardi responded with a breakdown of her nail habits and upkeep routine.
The road of questioning appeared to counsel that Cardi’s acrylic nails could have performed a task within the alleged 2018 altercation at a Beverly Hills OB-GYN workplace, the place former safety guard Emani Ellis claims she was bodily attacked.
Ellis alleges Cardi B scratched her cheek together with her nails, spat on her, used racial slurs, body-shamed her, jabbed a finger in her face and ordered one other guard to restrain her. She says the incident left her with emotional misery, together with PTSD, anxiousness, despair and insomnia.
Cardi has denied all claims of bodily violence, sustaining that Ellis was the aggressor and tried to movie her with out consent throughout a personal medical go to.
On the stand, Cardi admitted to yelling at Ellis however stood agency that it was strictly a “verbal altercation.”
The trial continues this week within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket.