Cardi B received fresh courtroom support on Wednesday (August 27) as a key witness testified that she did not see the rapper lay a hand on a security guard during a 2018 dispute at a Beverly Hills OB-GYN office.

Tierra Malcolm, the receptionist working at the clinic that day, told jurors she stepped into the hallway after hearing raised voices. She saw Cardi B and security guard Emani Ellis in a heated verbal exchange—but there was no physical contact. She added that she placed herself between the two women to de-escalate the situation.

Malcolm testified she later noticed a scratch on her face, which she believed came from Ellis, not Cardi. She said she was facing the guard with her back to Cardi during the incident.

Her account directly challenged Ellis’ claim that Cardi B assaulted her during the confrontation.

The incident happened while the clinic had closed early to give Cardi privacy for her prenatal appointment.

Malcolm’s testimony helped reinforce Cardi’s version of events, which she had shared earlier in the week during her own testimony.

“I didn’t hit her. She didn’t hit me. There was no touch. So to me, there was no incident,” Cardi told the court, denying any physical altercation. She admitted the two were “chest-to-chest” and exchanged words, but insisted it never turned violent.

Cardi also pointed out she was four months pregnant at the time and weighed about 130 pounds, while Ellis was significantly larger. She insisted she would not have gotten physical, adding that Ellis’ filming of her without consent triggered the confrontation.

Backing up Malcolm’s testimony, Dr. David Finke—the OB-GYN who treated Cardi that day—said he saw Ellis cause a shoulder injury to Malcolm and did not witness Cardi B touch anyone.

“I’m just flabbergasted with the allegations that don’t seem congruent with what I saw that day,” Finke told the court.

The civil trial continues this week in Los Angeles County.

Cardi B brought both style, strong language, some laughter and a variety of facial expressions to a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday (August 27) as her civil trial over an alleged 2018 assault continued with emotional testimony and a judge’s plea to “bring the temperature down.”

The Grammy-winning rapper arrived for Day 3 of the proceedings in Alhambra, California, wearing long jet-black hair—her third hairstyle in as many days.

But it wasn’t just her look that turned heads.

While testifying, Cardi described the tense moment she realized security guard Emani Ellis was allegedly filming her without consent.

“The camera was facing me. When I was walking and she was behind me, and then she said, ‘Oh my God, y’all, Cardi B. Cardi B, y’all.’ I looked back, and the camera was, like, right there. Like, practically on her chest type stuff. I’m like, yo, why you recording me?”

The rapper, who was secretly pregnant at the time, said she felt vulnerable and cornered.

“I said, b####, get the f### out of my face. Why are you in my face? Why are you recording me? Ain’t you supposed to be security?”

Cardi said Ellis escalated the situation by yelling, “You’re gonna get the f### out of my building. I can do whatever the f### I want,” and dismissing her celebrity status with, “I don’t give a f### who you are.”

As the questioning grew tense between Cardi and Ellis’s attorney, the judge was compelled to intervene.

“Why don’t we just take the temperature down a little bit. If you have actual questions to ask her, please do so. It’s not the time to argue with her,” the judge said.

Cardi also described how her pregnancy made her feel physically restricted during the incident.

“When you’re pregnant, you’re very disabled. You want me to tell you things I can’t do?” she said, prompting laughter throughout the courtroom.

Ellis’ lawsuit, filed in 2020, accuses Cardi B of scratching her face with long nails, spitting on her and causing emotional distress.

Cardi denied the claims, stating that the confrontation never escalated into physical violence. “We’re literally screaming at each other,” she testified. “I didn’t touch her. It was like a verbal fight, but it didn’t get physical at all.”

The rapper emphasized that her nails at the time were not sharp and there was no way she could have left scars on Ellis’ face.

“The shape that I had that week, it wasn’t like a shape that is, like, harming. It was like a square coffin shape. So, it didn’t have, like, no points or, like, sharp edges and stuff like that,” Cardi B testified.