Being in a depressive state prevented Cardi B from releasing her sophomore album last year.
The Grammy winner, who finally released her second album, Am I the Drama?, last month, was a guest on the Monday (October 6) episode of Jay Shetty's On Purpose podcast. Around the 23-minute mark of the video below, Cardi discussed her initial plans to release her follow-up to Invasion of Privacy in 2024, which was derailed by her mental health.
"Then last year, I was planning to have an album. I was planning to put out an
album, but I couldn't focus," she continued. "I fell in the deepest depression that I had ever had. And with that depression, I couldn't function."
Last August, Cardi gave birth to her third child, Blossom, amid her estrangement from Offset, whom she married in 2017. The rapper is currently expecting her first child with NFL player Stefon Diggs.
"And when I talk about function, it's not even like, oh, just working. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do nothing. So that just halted everything that I had," she continued.
The "Safe" artist explained that her depression stemmed from "pressure" surrounding her career and marriage.
"I felt the love dying from my end, from his end," Cardi said about her relationship with Offset. "I was very lonely because I [chose] to be lonely. I was saying, like, You know what? I can't go through this anymore. I have to put a stop to it.
"But when I said I was going to put a stop to it...because you can say you're going to put a stop to it, and you could; you could go a month without being around somebody. But it's not when you say so. It's when your heart [says] so..."
Elsewhere in the interview, Cardi shared that she felt her relationship was "dying" while she was pregnant with their third child.
"And while it was dying, I had a human growing in me. And I just had and I just kept thinking like, What's life going to be without this person? What's life going to be without raising my last child? Without this person, what's life going to be with that person not being my friend anymore?" she said.
"When you have those type of thoughts, it will make you sad. It will get you depressed. It will have you lost. But I overcame that. And I am the the strongest that I have ever been."
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