29-year-old rapper Nicki Minaj joined rapper Flo Rida and singer David Guetta at yesterday’s taping of “America’s Got Talent” in Los Angeles. Guess who Nicki was with? Yup, you guessed it: her boyfriend/hypeman Safaree Samuels, the same man who assaulted her with a designer suitcase in Dallas in July. Rumor had it that the couple had split up and that Nicki fired Samuels. But considering the source of the rumor, we should have known better.

According to my spy, Nicki was extremely camera shy, except when David and Flo asked her to pose with them, so she couldn’t say no. But during the show, her orders were strict: absolutely NO photography on the set or backstage. Even host Nick Cannon couldn’t get any pics of her in her dressing room. After the show, the contestants and judges took pics but not Nicki. At this point, no one really cares that Nicki and SB are still together. Like typical victims of domestic abuse, Nicki is probably convinced that she’s nothing without him. In 10 years she’ll film a VH1 “Behind the Music” special about how SB beat her azz on the regular and stole all of her money before leaving her for one of her bodyguards. Sad.

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