Cardi B left a Los Angeles courtroom momentarily speechless Tuesday (August 26) when her ever-changing hairstyles and extra-long nails turned the surprising focus of her civil assault trial testimony.
After arriving in court docket with a modern black pixie wig on Monday, the rapper confirmed up Tuesday in a protracted blonde quantity, prompting confusion from the plaintiff’s legal professional throughout cross-examination.
“On the date of the incident, did you will have black hair, blonde hair, or completely different coloration hair?” the legal professional requested.
Cardi mentioned she didn’t bear in mind, however confirmed she was carrying a hoodie.
The legal professional pressed additional, mentioning the distinction between her two court docket appearances.
“Yesterday you had black hair, quick hair,” he mentioned. “In the present day it’s blonde and lengthy. Which one is your actual hair? Or are they each actual?”
Cardi let loose amusing earlier than responding, “They’re wigs.”
“Okay. Sorry, I didn’t know that. It’s an excellent wig as we speak then,” the legal professional replied.
The questioning then shifted to Cardi’s fingernails, with the legal professional asking her to indicate them to the court docket.
“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 recommend that Cardi’s acrylic nails might 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 along 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, melancholy 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 non-public 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.
