Cardi B Files For Divorce From Offset, Seeks Custody Of Their 2-Year-Old Daughter Kulture
Cardi Bย is reportedly seeking a divorce from her husband,ย Offset, and custody of their 2-year-old daughter, Kulture Kiari.
On Tuesday (Sept. 15), theย โWAPโย rapper, whose real name isย Belcalis Marlenis Almรกnzar, filed a divorce petition in Fulton County, Georgia, citing the marriage is โirretrievably brokenโ and โthere are no prospects for a reconciliation,โ reportedly after finding out the Migos rapper, whose real name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, had been unfaithful yet again.
The filing, per TMZ, indicates itโs a โcontested divorce,โ with Offset listed as the defendant and Cardi B as the plaintiff. There are โno prospects for reconciliationโ, according to the filing.
The couple is due in court on November 4ย at 10am.
According to the petition, Cardi B wants legal andย primary physical custody of the pairโs 2-year-old daughter,ย Kulture. She is also seeking an equitable division ofย their marital assets as well as for Offset to pay bothย child support and all of her legal fees from the divorce.
The filing comes three years after the couple secretly married in September 2017, before Offset publicly proposed a month later by offering Cardi B a giant ring while they were on stage during a Philadelphia concert.
However, the couple has had a tumultuous marriage plagued by cheating allegations.
In January 2018, Cardi B outwardly confirmed Offset was at the center of aย sex tape cheating scandalย after rumors of a video and alleged liaison with another woman surfaced in December 2017.
In a February 2018 interview with Cosmopolitan, Cardi opened up about the situation and why she decided to stay.
โI know I look good, I know Iโm rich, I know Iโm talented. I know I could get any man I want โ any basketball player, football player. But I want to work out my sโ with my man, and I donโt got to explain why,โ she said.
โIโm not your property. This is my life โฆ Iโm going to take my time, and Iโm going to decide on my decision. Itโs not right, what he fโing did โ but people donโt know what I did, โcause I ainโt no angel.โ she added.
The pair stayed together in the following months, and Cardi revealed during her April 2018ย Saturday Night Liveย debutย that she and Offset were expecting.
On July 10, 2018, Cardi B gave birth to their daughter, Kulture. (Along with Kulture, Offset also has three children from previous relationships.)
However, in August 2018, August, Cardi was involved in an incident with two bartenders at Angelโs Strip Club in Queens, New York. The bartenders claimed the rapper ordered an attack on them because she believed Offset had had an affair with one of them.
Then in December 2018, Cardi B introduced Kulture to the world via Instagram, the same day she announced that she and Offset were no longer in a relationship, saying a since-deleted Instagram video that they โgrew out of love.โ
โSo everybody been bugging me and everything and you know Iโve been trying to work things out with my babyโs father for a hot minute now,โ Cardi B said.
โWe are really good friends and we are really good business partners โ you know heโs always somebody that I run to talk to, and we got a lot of love for each other โ but things just havenโt been working out between us for a long time,โ she continued.
โItโs nobody fault I guess we just grew out of love, but we are not together anymore. It might take time to get a divorce and Iโm going to always have a lot of love for him because he is my daughterโs father,โ she concluded.
Her announcement came in the midst of reported infidelity on the part of Offset, withย TMZ publishing a tearful video statementย from model Summer Bunni in which she apologizedย for coming between the couple.
Offsetย pleaded for his wife to come back, offering a lengthy apology on Instagram a week after Cardi announced their split.
โI only got one birthday wish and thatโs to get my wife back Cardi. Weโre going through a lot of things right now, a lot of things in the media. I want to apologize to you Cardi. I embarrassed you. I made you go crazy,โ he said.
โI was partaking in activity that I shouldnโt have been partaking in, and I apologize. You know what Iโm saying? For breaking your heart, for breaking our promise, for breaking Godโs promise and being a selfish, messed up husband,โ he continued.
โIโm trying to be a better person. I want to get this off my shoulders. I want to get this off my back. I apologize to you Cardi. I love you,โ he concluded.
The following day, Offsetย interrupted Cardi Bโs headlining set at Rolling Loud Festival in Los Angeles with a flower arrangementย that spelled out โTAKE ME BACKย CARDIโ along with bouquets of red and white roses. The โBodak Yellowโ rapper, however, shook her head at Offset and had anย inaudible exchange with him before sending him offstage.
By the end of January 2019,ย they had reconciled.
In March 2019, during an appearance onย โThe Ellen DeGeneres Show,โ Offset opened up about becoming briefly estranged from Cardi B.
โI love my wife, so itโs serious, not a game to me,โ he said.ย
The โBad and Boujeeโ rapper also told DeGeneres he decided to own his mistakes with his wife.
โI stepped to it as a man and said, โIโm wrong.โ I stepped to it as a man, and you donโt have to take me back but I just want you to know I love you and I care,โ he explained.
Inย Vogueโsย January 2020 cover story, Cardi B revisited her decision to forgive and reunite with her husband following his infidelity.
โEverybody has issues. I believe in forgiveness. I prayed on it. Me and my husband, we prayed on it. We had priests come to us. And we just came to an understanding like, bro, itโs really us against the world,โ she told the outlet.
โHe has my back for everything, I have his back for everything, so when you cheat, youโre betraying the person that has your back the most. Why would you do that? We have come to a clear understanding. For me, monogamy is the only way. Iโll beat your ass if you cheat on me,โ she added.
Cardi B also addressed the criticism she faced when she chose to take her husband back, saying that many of her fans were disappointed in her.
โWhen me and my husband got into our issues you know, he cheated and everything and I decided to stay with him and work together with him, a lot of people were so mad at me; a lot of women felt disappointed in me,โ she said.
โBut itโs real-life sโ. If you love somebody and you stop being with them, and youโre depressed and social media is telling you not to talk to that person because he cheated, youโre not really happy on the inside until you have the conversation. Then, if you get back with them, itโs like, how could you? You let all of us down,โ she added.
However, Cardi B said people need to recognize that marriages arenโt easy and people make mistakes.
โPeople that be in marriages for years, when they say till death do us part, they not talking about little arguments like if you leave the fridge open. Thatโs including everything,โ she said.
Most recently, Cardi B toldย ELLEโs September issue that her marriage to Offset can have โa lot of drama.โ
โThereโs always rumors about me and my husband, and I feel like people would rather start rumors because they want me to be heartbroken,โ she said.
โThey want me to be hurt. I do know that my relationship has a lot of drama and everything. But thereโs a lot of love, thereโs a lot of passion, thereโs a lot of trust, thereโs a big friendship. Itโs always us against the world.โ she added.
Neither Cardi B nor Offset have yet to publicly comment on the split.
