Cardi B Went Off On A Reporter After Being Ambushed For An Interview

By Peyton Blakemore

June 29, 2019

Do not pop up on Cardi B. (Okurrrr!)

The "Press" rapper had to get a Univision reporter all the way together after the woman ambushed her for an interview while she was walking into a New York City spa with her family.

In a clip of the moment, shared by Univision on YouTube Thursday (June 28), El Gordo y La Flaca reporter Gelena Solano, is shown approaching Cardi, asking for an interview, as the rapper is getting out of her vehicle. However, Cardi wasn’t having it.

"Yeah, but do you see how I look?" she asked the reporter. "I have my daughter, I have my dad. I just don’t look decent. Come on, you’re a woman and you look good, you have on makeup. I don’t look good. My hair’s f**ked up. Don’t do that to me."

Cardi then walked inside the spa. However, the reporter then began hounding the 26-year-old rapper's father, which set Cardi off as she came back outside and went off the reporter for not only popping up on her at an inappropriate time but for also trying to put her dad on camera. "Don’t put my father on TV!" she said. "Because my dad don’t walk around with security." While being restrained, the rapper added, "Don’t come to me with cameras without me knowing. That’s disrespectful. I’m with my child."

Watch how it all went down below!

Cardi later addressed the incident on her Instagram Story, per People en Español. "Today, this woman, right, I'm literally taking my daughter out the car and as soon as I turn around, this woman put a camera in my face and she's got a mic in my mouth," she said. "I'm not going to call her a b*tch but I really want to call her a b*tch."

Cardi added that while she loves the El Gordo y la Flaca show, she said, the way the reporter went about getting an interview was "not professional!"

"I’m literally getting off my car, the door is not even closed, and you see that I’m with my daughter and I’m with my dad and you put a camera. I turn around and there’s a camera and a mike in my mouth," she continued. "You don’t know how to do your job! That’s not how it works when I’m with my child."

"My parents, they don’t like to be on camera. Back in the day I always used to post my parents and it got to the point that certain people were stalking me and that freaked my parents out," Cardi added, before noting that the woman then tried to get her father to speak on camera. "She got in my dad’s way. Now if my dad was to punch her or shove her out of the way, he would be wrong. That’s when I came and I started bucking at her because I just told you: I don’t want my f**king parents on camera!"

While Cardi said she went to the spa to enjoy a relaxing day with her family, she said she decided to go home and not get her scheduled massage after the confrontation.

The reporter later reacted to Cardi's statements, telling People En Español, "I asked her how she was, how she was feeling, and thanked her for being part of the Dominican Republic and defending Dominicans and she tells me that she is in no condition to talk, that I’m a woman like her and she was with her dad and daughter."

She claims she then put her microphone down and agreed to do what Cardi asked. "I am a lady and I wasn’t going to start arguing with her or anyone else in the street," she continued. "We never filmed images of her daughter and if she felt attacked, then I apologize to her."

Photo: Getty Images

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