Cardi B allegedly degraded a female security guard during a nasty brawl at a doctor’s office in 2018, the woman testified at a trial in Los Angeles on Monday. Emani Ellis claimed on the stand that the “WAP” rapper — who was four months pregnant at the time — spit on her, called her racist names and cut her cheek with her fingernail.

Cardi B has told a court she did not attack a security guard who is suing her for assault. Emani Ellis claims the US rapper cut her cheek with a 3in (7.5cm) fingernail and spat on her during an altercation outside an obstetrician's office in Los Angeles in 2018, leaving her "deeply traumatised".