Cardi B and Stefon Diggs' romance is the definition of a classic friends-to-lovers relationship, according to the rapper.
The Grammy-winning emcee spoke to Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy about how her relationship with the New England Patriots star began.
“It wasn't a DM thing,” said Cardi. “I could feel the vibe that he liked me, but he never like approached me. But I always heard he was like, he was into me, but he never approached me. He was very respectful and stuff like that.”
Cardi filed divorce from her ex Offset in July 2024. The former couple share three children together: Kulture, Wave, and Blossom. The Bronx rapper explained that she was in the mood to just move on from her past realtionship.
“So, it was just this one time that I was like, ‘You have to move on. You have to move on,’ and it's like, no matter how much times you go to the club and think that this is gonna distract you, you know what you have to do to move on,” said Cardi.
However, while she was getting to know Diggs, all they ever did was talk which made them form a friendship.
“In order to move on, you have to be, you know, like getting attention from somebody. If you're so used to getting attention from one person, you have to get attention from somebody, because at the end of day you could party, you could club, you could work, you could job, you could get your hair done. At the end of the day, you kind of want somebody to talk to. You need somebody to talk to, so I asked somebody, it's like, ‘Hey, it feels illegal,’ and we just talked. We got to know each other. We was getting to know each other for a little bit. Not too much. We wasn't doing too much, though. Not too much.”
With both of their busy schedules, the talking was not always on a consistent basis. Cardi explained that "we'd go weeks or like a month without talking."
The rapper added that while the talking wasn't always certain, he would somehow always "hit me up at the right time."
“He almost hit me up at the times that I felt uneasy. I'd be like, ‘I don't know if I should deal with this person 'cause I know this person, he's a little hot, but I'm gonna talk,’ and then we had really good conversations, and it got to the point that it was like, ‘D---.’ We talked for hours and six hours and seven hours, and it's like, there was days that it's like, ‘Ugh.’Even when we wasn’t talking, I was like, ‘I need to talk to this person. I'm talking to this person every day,'” she said.
Cardi B and Stefon Diggs are expecting their first child together
While now fans know how their relationship began, Cardi also broke the news that they are expecting their first child together.
"I'm having a baby with my boyfriend, Stefon Diggs," Cardi told Gayle King during her CBS Mornings interview last week. "I'm happy ... I feel like I'm in a good space. I feel very strong, very powerful that I'm doing all this work — but I'm doing all this work while I'm creating a baby."
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