On Tuesday, in a swift and decisive verdict, a jury awarded Cardi B a victory in the lawsuit filed by a security guard who claimed the rapper attacked her at a medical office during her previously undisclosed first pregnancy.

The jury, consisting of six men and six women, deliberated for around an hour at a modest courthouse in Alhambra, California. They concluded that Cardi was not responsible in the lawsuit filed by Emani Ellis, who accused Cardi of scratching her face with a fingernail and spitting on her in the corridor of a Beverly Hills obstetrician’s office in February 2018.

Only nine of the 12 jurors were required for a verdict in the civil case, but their decision in Cardi’s favor was unanimous.

“If someone else tries to bring a frivolous lawsuit against me, I’ll counter-sue and make them pay because this is unacceptable,” Cardi stated outside the court, where she took photos with fans. “I’m not the kind of celebrity you think you can sue and expect to settle. I won’t settle, especially when I’m completely innocent.”

Cardi revealed she had to miss her children’s first day of school due to the trial, noting that multiple wig changes during the proceedings left her forehead “raw, raw, raw.” At one point, her lawyer was even confused about which hairstyle was her real one, which she humorously clarified was none.

During a break before the verdict on Tuesday, captured by various media outlets, she tossed a marker she was using for autographs at a man who was inquiring about her current pregnancy status and the identity of the father. She deemed the questions as disrespectful.

In two days of testimony last week, which were livestreamed, extensively watched, and filled with memorable moments, the rapper expressed concerns that Ellis might reveal her pregnancy. Although she admitted they had a verbal altercation, she insisted it never turned physical.

“I will say it on my deathbed. I did not touch that woman,” she said after her win. “I did not touch that girl. I didn’t lay my hands on that girl.”

Ron Rosen Janfaza, the lawyer for the plaintiff Ellis, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. He said outside court that they plan to appeal the decision.

After several days off, the trial resumed with closing arguments earlier Tuesday.

Janfaza told jurors that Ellis, who had hoped to work in law enforcement or something similar, “lost her future” along with her job over the incident.

“Whether it’s the FBI, police, attorney, whatever she wanted to do, this incident cut it off,” he said in his closing argument. “No more, because of the trauma she sustained.”

He also called out the profanity Cardi freely used during her testimony, suggesting she had scorn for the proceedings.

“The defendant came here, used all of this foul language,” he told the jurors. “This is a court of law, you cannot speak this way in court. I have never seen this before.”

Cardi testified that she had been visiting Los Angeles doing promotional work in February 2018 around that year’s NBA All-Star Game. She was four months into her pregnancy with the first of her three children with rapper Offset. She had told her inner circle she was having a baby, but not the public or her parents.

The obstetrician’s office had been closed to other patients on a Saturday for her privacy.

She said Ellis, a security guard for the building, followed her to her fifth-floor appointment. Cardi told jurors last week that she heard Ellis say her name into a phone and appeared to be filming her.

“I told her, ‘Why are you recording?’” Cardi testified, “and she said, ’Oh my bad.’ She practically apologized.’”

But the argument grew increasingly heated, she said.

“As we were arguing she’s backing me, she’s walking into me,” Cardi said.

Ellis testified that the incident left her humiliated and traumatized, and the scar on her face required cosmetic surgery. Ellis, who lost her job over the incident, sought damages that include medical expenses, compensation for emotional and physical suffering, and lost wages, along with punitive damages. She does not specify a total amount in the lawsuit but Cardi said from the stand that she is “suing me for $24 million.”

A receptionist who broke up the argument between Cardi and Ellis largely backed the rapper’s account in testimony.