Cardi B Asked Shakira for Advice amid Split from Offset: 'Took Months for My Heart to Say "You're Done"'

Cardi B revealed she asked Shakira for advice on navigating heartbreak amid her split from Offset.

In the Monday, Oct. 6 episode of Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast, Cardi, 32, spoke about her emotional healing process after her split from Offset, to whom she was married for seven years.

"I felt my strongest when I was 22, 23, 24," Cardi, born Belcalis Almánzar, reflected. "That's when I felt like my strongest. And I was like, living in a power. And that's how I feel right now. Like I feel like I live in a power."

The rapper elaborated, "It took months for the heart to say, 'You're done.' Instead of my mouth and my brain. My heart had to be like, 'You're done.' Because you could say it and you could take actions but even if you take actions, if you're not done you're not done."

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The Grammy winner then recounted working with Shakira in 2023 on their song "Puntería," about a year after Shakira's split from longtime partner Gerard Piqué and a year before Cardi filed for divorce the final time. Both men had allegedly been unfaithful.

"I was like, 'How the f--- did you overcame this?' And [she's] like, 'It's going to happen,'" Cardi said of Shakira's advice. "And [I'm] like, 'It will never happen' and it happened. It took some crying. It took some thoughts, scary thoughts. But I'm here, honey, I'm here and I'm the strongest I've been."

"I love hearing that," Shetty, 38, chimed in.

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Later in the podcast, she expressed her hopes for her children's future. She shares daughter Kulture Kiari, 7, son Wave Set, 4, and daughter Blossom Belle, 13 months, with estranged husband Offset. Cardi B is currently pregnant with her fourth baby, her first with New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs.

"It's discipline. It's gotta be in you, and you have to be better than me. I want you to be better than me," she said. "There's things that I cannot do that I want my kids to do."

"I want you to be smarter than me," Cardi added. "I want you to be — not perfect because you cannot make your kids perfect and you don't want you to put pressure on your kids [to be] perfect — but I want you to be a 100 times better version than me, and I'm gonna [instill] that in you and you're gonna be mad and you're gonna be crying, but you're gonna appreciate that one day because I wish the things that that I put on my kids that somebody put in me when I was younger."

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The Am I the Drama? rapper filed for divorce from Offset in July 2024 after seven years of marriage. The rappers have had an on-and-off again relationship since tying the knot in September 2017; she previously filed for divorce in 2020, but later called it off. Their divorce is not yet finalized.