Cardi B revealed she could feel “the love dying” during her seven-year marriage to estranged husband Offset, according to her appearance on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast.
The Grammy winner admitted during the Monday, Oct. 6 episode that the feelings faded from both sides of their relationship.
“From my end, from his end … I was very lonely because I chose to be lonely,” she said.
Cardi, 32, first filed for divorce from the “Ric Flair Drip” rapper in September 2020. They reconciled a few months later. She filed for divorce a second time in July 2024 after confirming their split in December 2023.
The “Up” rapper explained that her heart needed time to catch up with her mind about ending the marriage.
“It took months for the heart to say, ‘You’re done.’ Instead of my mouth and my brain. My heart had to be like, ‘You’re done.’ Because you could say it and you could take actions but even if you take actions, if you’re not done you’re not done.”
Cardi and Offset share three children: daughter Kulture Kiari, 7, son Wave Set, 4, and daughter Blossom Belle, 13 months.
During the difficult period, Cardi sought advice from Shakira while working on their 2023 collaboration “Puntería.” The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer had recently split from longtime boyfriend Gerard Piqué following alleged infidelity.
“Around that time I was working with Shakira and I was like, how the f— did you over overcame this? Like, how did you overcame this?” Cardi recalled. “And [she’s] like, ‘It’s going to happen.’ And [I’m] like, ‘It will never happen.’ And it happened. It took some crying, it took some thoughts, scary thoughts.”
Despite the relationship’s end, Cardi told CBS Mornings host Gayle King last month that she doesn’t “have hate in my heart anymore.”
She expressed hope that Offset would improve as a person and father.
“I just wish he was a better person, but it is what it is. Be a better person for your kids,” she said. “I think he has some type of hate in his heart right now… I don’t know how long that’s gonna take for him but that’s always been my wish.”
The rapper wouldn’t change her past despite the pain it caused.
“Even in the long marriage that I was in, there’s a lot of things that I regret, and there’s a lot of things that people are gonna be like, ‘You see, you wasted your time,’ but I don’t feel like it was a waste of time,” Cardi told Alex Cooper during a September 24 appearance on Call Her Daddy.
She added that the experience taught her valuable lessons about family life and marriage, even through difficult times.
“I see what comes with being a wife, being a mom, so I experienced that. It’s like I have to experience pain, I have to experience good times, I have to experience what it was like to have a family and to be a wife.”
