Cardi B is speaking out about the #MeToo movement and her own experience with sexual assault in a new clip from WE tv's upcoming episode of Untold Stories of Hip Hop.
In the clip, first reported by People, Cardi says that she was once on a magazine shoot when she was sexually harassed. She said, "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?' Then he pulled his dick out." She continued, "I was so fucking mad, and I was just like, 'This is crazy.'"
When asked how she handled the situation, she said, "I was like, 'You’re' fucking bugging. You know what? I’m out.' You know what’s so crazy? I told the magazine owner and he just looked at me like, 'So? And?'"
For Cardi, the incident was another reminder of what women go through on a daily basis. "When I see the #MeToo movement," she said, "there’s 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 bullshit shit. It happens, really, every day."
But in true Cardi fashion, when asked whether this sort of behavior still happens at this point in her career, she said, "Oh, hell no. I’ll put you on blast on my Instagram … I’ll fucking violate."
Cardi briefly mentioned this assault before during an interview with Cosmopolitan in 2018. Back then, she told the magazine that while she was happy to see the public response to sexual harassment in Hollywood, she had doubts that the #MeToo movement would change things for women in the hip-hop industry. She explained, "A lot of video vixens have spoke about this and nobody gives a fuck. 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 dicks out. 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.'"
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