Cardi B slammed critics who say she’s faking her split from Offset for the sake of publicity.
The posted an Instagram Live video on Sunday explaining how she ‘really hates’ that people are accusing her of using her relationship to grab headlines and insisting the former couple simply ‘fell in love’.
Her video came just hours after her estranged husband finally broke his silence over their split, writing he ‘missed Cardi B’ on Twitter — and amid reports that he’s ‘pulling out all the stops’ to save his marriage to the Bodak Yellow rapper.
Speaking out: Cardi B slammed critics who accused her of faking her relationship and split from Offset for the sake of a PR stunt in a new Instagram Live video on Sunday
According to TMZ, Offset is struggling to navigate the challenges of regaining his wife’s trust, while members of the public weigh in with negative opinions about him.
‘We’re told Cardi reads blogs and comments, and Offset feels like he’s up against all of that,’ reports the news website, who referred to him as ‘madly in love’ with Cardi.
And while TMZ reports that Offset ‘will take every chance he can to save his family’, he broke his silence on Twitter on Saturday, when he wrote: ‘F*** YALL I MISS CARDI.’
Her say: The 26-year-old posted an Instagram Live video on Sunday explaining how she ‘really hates’ that people are accusing her of using her relationship to grab headlines
Split: After taking a brief social media break, Offset returned to Twitter on Sunday writing ‘F*** YALL I MISS CARDI’
Honesty: In her Insat live Cardi asked: ‘Think we want to put our life out there for what? What we gain from publicity? Nothing’
Cardi B and Offset leave 26th birthday party in high spirits
But while Offset may have regrets, Cardi seems ready to move on.
‘I learned a lot,’ hip hop star said on Instagram live. ‘I ain’t really know much about the music industry and you know my husband helped me. He made me wiser.
‘He let me open my eyes to a lot of things, and even though we are not together anymore, I learned a lot.’
Cardi then addressed the rumors that their split was just a PR stunt.
‘I just really hate how people say we trying to do this for publicity.’
For real: After Cardi announced that the couple had split after a year of marriage, many fans speculated the breakup was a prank
Mom: ‘We never did anything for publicity, b****,’ Cardi said on social media. ‘You think I got f***ing pregnant, could have ruined my career for f***ing publicity?’
Adding: ‘Think we want to put our life out there for what? What we gain from publicity? Nothing.’
She went even further and quelled other rumors that claimed the couple was in a ‘fake’ relationship from the jump.
‘I’ve been seeing a lot of people say that my relationship was fake. B****, there’s certain things called love,’ she said, according to People Magazine.
‘People do fall in love,’ she continued. ‘Like my relationship was never fake. I met this n****, he was on my a**, I gave him a chance and we fell in love with each other.’
After Cardi announced that the couple had split after a year of marriage, many fans speculated the breakup was a prank as it was only a few days ago that Cardi shared photos of the couple kissing at a basketball game.
Happier times: The rappers, both 26, tied the knot secretly in September 2017
Cardi B announces that she has broken up with Offset
‘But we never did anything for publicity, b****,’ Cardi said on social media. ‘You think I got f***ing pregnant, could have ruined my career for f***ing publicity?’
Despite rampant rumors that Offset was unfaithful, Cardi said in her video that she put work before her marriage.
‘I just put my work before everything and everybody and it’s always gonna be like that,’ she said. ‘Now that I have s***, I ain’t never gonna let it go.’
Last week Cardi posted a seflie video on Instagram where she explained that she and the Migos rapper were no longer together.
On Friday, Bartier rapped about her impending divorce during a performance at Jingle Ball in New York City where she changed the lyrics of her song Motorsport.
‘We gon’ get a divorce!’ Cardi rapped to a packed crowd during a performance over the weekend
She rapped to the crowd: ‘I get up set off. I turn Offset on. I told him the other day, yeah, we gon’ get a divorce!’
The track’s original lyrics are: ‘I get up set off. I turn Offset on. I told him the other day. Man, we should sell that porn.’
Thousands of fans replied to Offset’s new tweet lamenting his split and called him out for being a hypocrite since he allegedly cheated on Cardi multiple times.
‘Yo didn’t you cheat on her?’ one user questioned.
The end: On Friday, Cardi changed song lyrics during a performance to rap about her impending divorce
‘But you cheated multiple times. You didn’t miss her then,’ another said.
‘Stop cheating on a QUEEN,’ a third user tweeted in defense of Cardi.
The couple, who married in September 2017, welcomed daughter Kulture into the world in July.
On social media the Bodak Yellow rapper explained that she and Offset ‘grew out of love’ but are still ‘really good’ friends and business partners.
Offset’s alleged mistress says she’s ‘so ashamed’
Got her back: Fans flooded Offset’s social media pages to defend Cardi after he posted the tweet saying he missed her
‘So everybody been bugging me and everything and you know I’ve been trying to work things out with my baby father for a hot minute now,’ Cardi said.
‘We are really good friends and we are really good business partners– you know he’s always somebody that I run to to talk to, and we got a lot of love for each other but things just haven’t been working out between us for a long time.
‘It’s nobody fault I guess we just grew out of love but we are not together anymore.’
However, there appeared to be some truth to the rumors of infidelity as Cardi has received an apology from Offset’s alleged mistress.
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Faking it? Some fans thing the split is a hoax as the duo was seen kissing at a basketball game a few days ago and again here at the end of November
Look of love! Cardi B hits the AMAs red carpet with Offset
Shortly after announcing their split, numerous screenshots of texts and direct messages between the Migos rapper and models Summer Bunni and Cuban Doll, in which he tried to arrange a threesome, were leaked online.
Apologizing to Cardi, she said: ‘No, I have not spoken to Cardi B, but I would like to her know that I’m a very genuine person and I’m not here to break up her family or mess up what she has going on with her husband.
‘I’m very sorry that this has happened and I’m very sorry that I didn’t think about my worth as a young lady, and I just hope that she can overcome this.
‘I know that her and Offset do have love for each other – I can tell – so I just hope that with this she can just focus on her love for Offset.’