Cardi B Provides Health Update After ‘Freak Accident’ While Pregnant

Cardi B provided fans with new details on Thursday, Aug. 8, about the “freak accident” that sent her to the hospital a few days ago.

The rapper first revealed that she was “in so much pain” after the incident in an X Spaces recording earlier this week, according to People. In the recording, a clip of which was later reshared on X, formerly Twitter, the “I Like It” hitmaker marveled at how an accident that was seemingly slight had impacted her so much. “It became something that is so big, to the point I was literally paralyzed,” she explained. “And that little thing almost cost me my little one to come. But it didn’t.”

The Grammy Award-winning artist only recently announced that she is expecting her third child. She shared a couple of photos on Instagram on Aug. 1 showing off her baby bump, which she paired with a loving caption that ended with a sweet message: “It’s so much easier taking life’s twists, turns and test laying down, but you, your brother and your sister have shown me why it’s worth it to push through!”

The “freak accident” shortly thereafter threatened that future, she later revealed. In a new X Spaces recording on Thursday, the “WAP” rapper offered more information about the incident that left her hospitalized for three days.

As Cardi B, 31, explained, she was walking downstairs in her home when her socks-clad feet slipped on the floor. “I practically fell,” she said. “But I was trying to prevent myself from falling, so I was holding myself on the railing, and my foot slid.” She then felt what she described as a “weird jerk” or “a pop” and had trouble walking. After lying down for a nap, she awoke to the feeling of pain in her lower stomach and “felt paralyzed.”

“I couldn’t even get up,” she revealed. Cardi B then went to the hospital to get checked out. “What we found out was, I tore a ligament in my pelvis, and it’s right where my baby’s head is at,” she explained.

The event caused her to have “contractions every two minutes for a whole 24 hours.” Though she has now been released from the hospital, Cardi B said “little things” have still “bothered” her injury. “Yesterday I was just in so much pain, I was just in bed all day,” she shared.