By Yetunde Adeyeri
According to daily mail, Cardi B admitted she was sexually assaulted during a magazine shoot as she revealed her own #MeToo experience for an upcoming episode of Untold Stories of Hip Hop.
The 26-year-old phenom told Angie Martinez that she would ‘never forget’ the frightening encounter, with a full interview set to air on Thursday, Sept. 26 on the WE tv network.
The Bodak Yellow rapper went as far as to tell the owner of the magazine about what happened during the photoshoot, only for the owner to show little concern for the harrowing incident.
‘I will never forget how I went to shoot for this magazine and the photographer, he was trying to get close to me like, “Yeah, you want to get in this magazine?” she recalled. ‘Then he out.’
‘I was so f***ing mad, and I was just like, “This is crazy.”‘
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She told the photographer ‘you’re f***ing bugging’ before storming off the set in complete shock.
It’s unclear when the sexual assault happened or which magazine she was working with, and Cardi hasn’t revealed the photographer’s name.
Making a bad situation even worse, Cardi was beside herself after hearing that there were no repercussions for the photographer’s actions.
‘You know what’s so crazy? I told the magazine owner and he just looked at me like, “So? And?”‘ she said.
‘When I see the Me Too movement — there are girls from the hood I know that went through the same type of treatment like they make you feel like you got to do a certain type of thing for the most bulls*** s***. It happens, really, every day.’
Despite the tragic incident, Cardi — who’s real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar — learned to never accept any form of harassment.
When Martinez asked if anything like this still happens to her, she quickly responded: ‘Oh, hell no. I’ll put you on blast on my Instagram … I’ll f***ing violate.’
She previously discussed her experience during an interview with Cosmopolitan in 2018, months after the Harvey Weinstein abuse scandal broke.
‘When I was trying to be a [music video] vixen, people were like, “You want to be on the cover of this magazine?” Then they pull their d***s out,’ she told the publication. ‘I bet if one of these women stands up and talks about it, people are going to say, “So what? You’re a ho. It don’t matter.”‘
Shortly after The New York Times article was released in 2017 which revealed the disgraced movie moguls prowling habits, a number of celebrities came forward to share similar stories of abuse at the hands of Weinstein and other powerful men in the entertainment industry.
