Cardi B spoke up on Sunday to deny that her recently-announced split from Migos rapper Offset is nothing more than a publicity stunt.
“I wouldn't put my family in a bad name for no f**king publicity,” she said during an Instagram Live session. “Because at the end of the day, 10 years from now, my daughter, she's gonna be looking at these type of things and she's gonna be asking me about these type of things.”
Cardi announced last week that she and her husband, with whom she had daughter Kulture in July, “grew out of love” and are “not together anymore.”
The news came only days after they shared PDAs on stage at a Jingle Ball show in California – and a little more than a week before the release of Offset’s solo album.
“I really don't like how people say my and my husband—whatever he is right now to me—is doing it for publicity," Cardi fumed on Sunday. “I've been seeing a lot of people say that my relationship was fake … People do fall in love. Like, my relationship was never fake. I met this n***a, he was on my a**, I gave him a chance and we fell in love with each other.
“Things was not always gravy, 'cause at the end of the day, we are two different people. But we never did anything for f**king publicity… You think I got f**king pregnant, could have ruined my career for f**king publicity?”
Cardi and Offset reportedly got married in September 2017 but didn’t confirm their union until this past June. “There are moments that I want to keep for myself,” Cardi explained at the time.
At this weekend’s Jingle Bash in Chicago, Cardi changed lyrics in her track “MotorSport” to reference the couple’s split. “I get up set off / I turn Offset on / I told him the other day / Yeah, we gon' get a divorce.”
The next morning, Offset tweeted: “F**K YALL I MISS CARDI.”