Cardi B Courageously Opens Up About Being a Victim of Sexual Assault During a Photo Shoot

“I will never forget how I went to shoot for this magazine and the photographer, he was just like trying to get close to me,” Cardi said in the interview. “Like, ‘Yeah, you want to get in this magazine?’ And he pulled his d*ck out. I was so…mad. Like, this is crazy.”

Cardi said she reacted by leaving the photo shoot. She also told the owner of the magazine she was shooting for, but she said he didn’t seem to care.



“I told the magazine owner and he just looked at me like…so? And?” Cardi said.

This isn’t the first time Cardi has appeared to talked about the assault. In a 2018 interview with Cosmopolitan, Cardi talked about how women who appear in music videos or are strippers are often disregarded when they report assault because of the cultural stigma surrounding that type of work.

When I was trying to be a vixen, people were like, ‘You want to be on the cover of this magazine?’ Then they pull their d*cks out,” she said, seeming to refer to the same incident. “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.’”

In the WE TV interview, Cardi also talked about how certain women are taken more seriously than others when it comes to sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. “When I see the #MeToo movement, there’s girls from the hood and I know they went through the same type of treatment,” she said. “[People] make you feel like you gotta do a certain type of thing.”

Now that she’s more famous, Cardi said she’s no longer treated this way during shoots — but as Cardi’s previous statements make clear, it shouldn’t matter who you are, what your level of fame is, or what your background is. No one deserves to be sexually assaulted.

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