Cardi B Opens Up About Heartbreak, Healing & Finding Her Power Again

Jay Shetty finally landed one of his dream guests — Cardi B. The “Am I The Drama?” rapper sat down for a raw and revealing conversation on Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast, sharing her emotional journey through marriage, motherhood, and rediscovering her strength.

For the first time, Cardi admitted that she “felt the love dying” during her marriage to Offset — not just from him, but from herself.

“From my end, from his end. I was very lonely because I chose to be lonely,” she said. “I was crying everyday. I was hurt everyday. I was out here in L.A. in a mansion by myself. I was thinking about it every single day.”

Cardi revealed that the weight of it all sent her into the deepest depression of her life while pregnant with her daughter Blossom. “I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t do nothing,” she shared, adding that even her passion for music faded during that time. The pressure of her career and her marriage felt crushing.

She tried to fix things, accepting accountability for her own flaws. But when her vulnerability was met with what she described as Offset “taking advantage” of it, something inside her shifted.

“It really just killed everything,” Cardi said. “While it was dying, I had a human growing in me. What is life going to be without this person? What is life going to be raising my last child without this person? What’s life going to be like with that person not being my friend anymore? When you have those type of thoughts, it will make you sad, get you depressed, it will have you lost. But, I overcame that. I am the strongest that I have ever been.”

To reclaim that strength, she turned to therapy. “I can’t believe I’m telling a whole stranger my feelings, my thoughts, my personal business for 3 hours straight. I did a couple sessions,” she said.

Despite the pain, Cardi isn’t holding on to resentment.

“I don’t have hate in my heart anymore,” she told Gayle King last month. Instead, she hopes Offset becomes “a better person” for their kids.

Reflecting on her journey, Cardi said she felt her strongest as a woman between 22 and 24 — and now, at 32, she feels that power again.

“I feel like I live in a power,” she said, adding that the growth came through pain. “It took some crying and some scary thoughts, but I’m here.”

Watch Cardi’s full appearance on On Purpose below.