--- ---  # Nicki Minaj Says Altercation With Cardi B Was 'Mortifying and Humiliating'  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 10, 2018 8:59 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Nicki Minaj, Designer Jeremy Scott, and Cardi B attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG18/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Nicki Minaj, Designer Jeremy Scott, and Cardi B attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG18/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)Kevin Mazur/MG18—Getty Images for The Met Museum  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 10, 2018 8:59 PM UTC [Nicki Minaj](http://time.com/collection-post/4298230/nicki-minaj-2016-time-100/) took to her Beats 1 show [_Queen Radio_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/station/beats-1/idra.978194965?app=music&ign-itsct=sta%5Fqueenradio&ign-itscg=10703) to address her [involvement in an altercation with Cardi B](http://time.com/5390788/cardi-b-nicki-minaj-altercation/) at a New York Fashion Week party last Friday night. While talking to show guest Funk Flex, Minaj said that the altercation was “mortifying and humiliating,” especially given the setting and the “upper echelon people” at the event. Following the incident, Cardi took to [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnc5gMAhCbD/?taken-by=iamcardib) where she released a statement that emphasized that her issue was with the questioning of her skills as a parent to her new baby, Kulture, noting that when it concerned her daughter, “all bets are f-ckin’ off!” Minaj weighed in on the incident on a session of Queen Radio on late Monday afternoon. “I would never ridicule anyone’s child. \[It’s\] so sad for someone to pin that on somebody,” Minaj said. “I would never talk about anyone’s child or parenting…these lies are ridiculous.” Minaj later doubled down on her statements by echoing a sentiment from her song “Chun-Li,” that she feels that people often frame her as the “bad guy.” “It’s crazy for me that people always need to make Onika the bad guy,” she said. “I was wearing a Gaultier gown off the mother f—in’ runway and I could not believe how humiliating it all felt.” Nicki Minaj Says Cardi B Altercation Was Mortifying ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5392054/nicki-minaj-on-cardi-b/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5392054/nicki-minaj-on-cardi-b/"},"headline":"Nicki Minaj Says Altercation With Cardi B Was 'Mortifying and Humiliating'","datePublished":"2018-09-10T20:59:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:46.801Z","description":"\"I could not believe how humiliating it all felt\"","url":"https://time.com/5392054/nicki-minaj-on-cardi-b/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt544e1be66f66e012/698939dd4ee262aea0312d12/nicki-minaj-addresses-cardi-b-nyfw-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt544e1be66f66e012/698939dd4ee262aea0312d12/nicki-minaj-addresses-cardi-b-nyfw-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Cocktails","caption":"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Cocktails","creditText":"Kevin Mazur/MG18—Getty Images for The Met Museum","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5392054/nicki-minaj-on-cardi-b/","name":"Nicki Minaj Says Altercation With Cardi B Was 'Mortifying and Humiliating'"}}]}] ```