Millie Mackintosh and ex-husband Professor Green are ‘on their best terms in a decade’ after drawing a line under their toxic separation and subsequent divorce.
The former couple ended their three year marriage in 2016, and Green – real name Stephen Manderson – recently confirmed they were back on speaking terms after nine years of silence.
Friends now claim the British rapper and his ex-wife – who has since remarried to her Made In Chelsea co-star Hugo Taylor – have brushed any lingering resentments to one side for the sake of their friendship.
A source told The Sun: ‘Stephen and Millie were head over heels when they were together, but will both admit it just wasn’t the right time.
‘They have both moved on, Millie is living a picture-perfect life with her two daughters, but Stephen’s relationship is a bit rockier.
‘There is one big change though – they have started speaking again, and they are on better terms than they have been in a decade.
Millie Mackintosh and ex-husband Professor Green are ‘on their best terms in a decade’ after drawing a line under their toxic separation and subsequent divorce
The former couple ended their three year marriage in 2016, and Green – real name Stephen Manderson – recently confirmed they were back on speaking terms after nine years of silence
‘Both being parents has played a huge part, and they have both grown up a lot. They have also both given up booze, which was a huge issue when they were together.’
Mackintosh is now a parent to daughters Siena, five, and Aurelia, three, with Taylor, while Green raises son Slimane, four, with his actress partner Karima Adebibe.
The rapper revealed he was back in touch with his ex-wife during a candid podcast interview with her close friend and former made In Chelsea co-star Jamie Laing for his Great Company podcast.
Green explained that he and Mackintosh both ‘trauma bonded’ together over their previously undiagnosed ADHD.
He said: ‘There was undiagnosed neurodivergence between both of us. We had a conversation about this recently, and it makes sense.
‘I don’t feel uncomfortable about these things anymore, but I felt uncomfortable for a huge part of my life.’
He added: ‘If there wasn’t that pressure, we may have never got married. It very nearly didn’t happen.
‘I remember having a conversation with my two best mates, Lewis and Phoenix. “Am I getting cold feet? What’s going on here?” And one of them said yes. One of them said, No. I won’t put him in it, because it’s not their responsibility.
The former couple finalised their divorce in May 2016, the same week that Mackintosh chose to go public with Hugo Taylor (pictured attending a Hugo Boss event in 2024)
The rapper revealed he was back in touch with his ex-wife during a candid podcast interview with her close friend Jamie Laing for his Great Company podcast
‘I made my own decision. We made our decision, and we didn’t get married for the wrong reasons. We loved each other.
‘It was probably an element of trauma bonding. And it takes a lot to get to a place of going, “I had a significant part in that, 50% at least, because there were two of us in the situation, and it didn’t work out.”
‘But hopefully we can both go forward and find happiness and belonging.’
He also called his ex-wife ‘beautiful’ as he added: ‘There’s no resentment in me. She is gorgeous.
‘We were not good for each other at that time.’
Mackintosh has since shared a pointed remark on her Instagram platform.
On Wednesday, she re-posted a quote that read: ‘There’s only one thing more precious than our time…
‘And it’s who we spend it on.’
The former couple finalised their divorce in May 2016, the same week that Mackintosh chose to go public with Taylor.
Following their separation, Green appeared to take a swipe at his ex-wife in the lyrics to 2016 single, Eye On The Door.
Lamenting an apparent lack of action between the sheets in the opening verse, the rapper suggests he and Mackintosh spent most of their time watching box sets.
Green also suggests she regularly kicked him out of the marital home in south-east London and would only allow him back in if he returned with a gift of material significance.
He raps: ‘Me an the Mrs we are getting along/Till I do something wrong – then it’s another domestic/People wanna know what my life’s like.
‘Behind closed doors what’s my wife like/It gets crazy in bed – We watch a couple episodes/Of a box set and and then it’s night night/When she hears this s**t it’s lights out/I’ll probably get kicked out of my house/Till I come back with a brand new Chanel bag.’
A second verse finds Pro Green’s protagonist wrestling with his conscience; on the one hand fretting about divorce, while on the other putting his wife’s feelings to one side while he parties with pals.
Referring to his use of drugs, he raps: ‘One minute it was one, the next it was six/S**t I’m dead – I don’t know where the time went.
‘Where’s my phone? S**t sixty-one missed calls/A divorce is on the cards if I don’t split/And get my a**e in gear – I’m asking for it.
‘A b****rd ain’t I – auf wiedersehen/Better get my a**e in gear and get a car quick though, if I’m already gonna get my a**e kicked?
‘Then pass it/What’s one more half, what’s one more spliff/What’s one more glass/What’s one more line, what’s one more toke/I’m already a dead man when I get home.’
Mackintosh and Taylor got engaged on the Greek island of Mykonos the following year and married in Sussex in June 2018.
The couple welcomed daughter Sienna in 2020 and daughter Aurelia in 2021..
Speaking on Brogan Garrit-Smith’s podcast Getting There earlier this year, Mackintosh said she went through ‘a really hard time’ when she divorced.
‘I think we [Professor Green] both were in our own struggles, and I think we maybe both thought we could fix each other,’ she reflected of her marriage. ‘But we couldn’t.’
‘And ultimately, we both had our own struggles, and it just magnified it. And it was actually quite toxic.’
