Spotify: Cardi B Reveals to Kelly Rowland That Shakira Was a Key Mentor During Her Depression After Offset Divorce

Cardi B is pounding the promo pavement in support of her September 19-due new album ‘Am I the Drama,’ and what better way to do so than to reflect on the very drama that helped inspire the LP’s theme?

In her ‘Countdown to Am I the Drama‘ interview special with Spotify on Monday (September 15), Cardi (born Belcalis Almanzar) did just that.

Hosted by GRAMMY-winning R&B diva Kelly Rowland, Almanzar waxed honest on everything from her humble beginnings, beefs with other female artists, the 7-year delay from her debut effort ‘Invasion of Privacy,’ and so much more.

Of special note was the Rap diva’s candid discussion about her highly publicized divorce from fellow rapper / Migos star Offset and how it impacted her ability to record.

Look inside to see what she said.

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While discussing the emotional toll the dissolution of her marriage from Offset (born Kiari Cephus) was taking on her, Cardi revealed it even impacted her ability to finish ‘Am I the Drama’ on time.

“My feelings and my heart cripple me. Not my kids or children, but a situation could really cripple my mind and I can’t think until I’m really over it,” she shared with Rowland before later saying, “When my [divorce from him] was finishing, it was for months [that it took me to get over it].”

Almanzar even said she tried relying on the strength of celebrity pals who have had their own highly publicized breakups to get through the heartbreak.

“I even talked to Shakira and asked ‘How do you get over this funk?,'” she relayed. “[Shakira] was like ‘it takes time.’ But, it almost felt like whatever people experience when they are going through withdrawals and they’re throwing up, I felt like I was withdrawing love. And, I’m not trying to sound exaggerated. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t think, couldn’t work, and couldn’t even look at my kids’ faces because I just wanted to cry. I didn’t want to see daylight or nothing.”

All-in-all, Almanzar was able to turn that emotional tragedy into triumph and finish her album.

“When you know you’re done, I don’t know what it is – you just know that it’s done. It just dies in you, but when it dies it’s very painful. And, you can’t go back no more; it’s just dead,” the ‘Bodak Yellow’ beauty shared.

Click PLAY on the video above to hear her full statement on the matter.