The “Bodak Yellow” rapper responded to criticism of a newly resurfaced, years-old Instagram Live clip, in which she made the admission , with a lengthy statement that she shared to Twitter on Tuesday:

Cardi B’s attempt to explain why she drugged and robbed men during her time working as a stripper has not gone down well.

All I can do now is be a better me for myself my family and my future. pic.twitter.com/VlPJW20thN

The Grammy-winner defended her past actions as being something she felt she “needed to do to make a living.”

She’d never claimed “to be perfect” and “made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options,” she wrote, adding that “I have a past that I can’t change we all do.”

Cardi B’s reasoning, however, was not received well by the majority of people on Twitter where the #SurvivingCardiB hashtag continued to trend: