Pregnant Cardi B Shares New Details of Accident, Reveals She Couldn't Move for Days After Tearing Ligament

Mar. 15, 2025

Cardi B.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TikTok

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Cardi Bis sharing new details about a recent medical scare.

In a conversation on X Spaces on Thursday, Aug. 8, thepregnant rapper, 31, described exactly how she felt “paralyzed” and “couldn’t move for two days straight” after previously sharing that she had a"freak accident" that almost led to a pregnancy loss.

“I was going down the stairs and I slipped a little,” the “I Like It” singer explains. “I practically fell, but I was trying to prevent myself from falling, so I was holding myself on the railing. My foot still slipped, and I kind of busted my ass.”

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Cardi B.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

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She adds that upon falling, “I felt a weird jerk, like a pop, and I couldn’t get up really.”

After “screaming” for her dad, he ran over and “tried helping me get up and move out the steps.” Despite his efforts, Cardi shares, “I noticed that I couldn’t really walk, like I was feeling pain in my, I don’t know, in the lower of my stomach.”

However, Cardi says, “When I woke up, I couldn’t move my bottom at all. Like, just moving my feet was hurting the bottom of my stomach. I couldn’t move. I felt like paralyzed.”

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Cardi B and Offset in Los Angeles in February 2019.Francis Specker/CBS via Getty

Francis Specker/CBS via Getty

“I dilated and I was having contractions for every two minutes for a whole 24 hours,” the soon-to-be mom of three continues. “So they had to monitor me and I was in a lot of pain. I couldn’t move for two days straight.”

Cardi adds that eventually the doctors “sent me home,” and they “not only put me on bed rest, but I got to do therapy.”

“So stop playing with me. I’m not even a type of person to exaggerate anything,” she tells those who criticized her forpreviously asking for more morphine from the hospital.“You don’t even know what the f— is going on or what I’m going through.”

Cardi initially announced her pregnancy news onInstagramon Thursday, Aug 1, just one dayafter she filed for divorce from husbandOffset, 32, after six years of marriage. The former couple shares sonWave Set, 2½, and daughterKulture Kiari, 6.

source: people.com