Professor Green has emotionally opened up about co-parenting his young son following his split from fiancée Karima McAdams.
The English rapper, 41, parted ways with Karima in 2023 but they have been continuing to amicably co-parent their four-year-old son Slimane.
However, taking to social media, Green – whose real name is Stephen Paul Manderson – discussed missing out on bedtime and birthdays as a result of his split from Karima.
He explained: ‘Co-parenting really sucks. It sucks for the child, first and foremost he doesn’t get mum and dad in the same bed, he doesn’t get a cuddle from mum and dad at the same time.
‘Question marks over special occasions, can’t be the same birthday twice. Sucks for mum, sucks for dad. It’s the bits of incidental parenting you get to do around, parts of life going into your social contract, your job, whatever social life you might have.
‘Obviously that comes secondary, but it all requires time and getting home after work, being able to give your kid a kiss on the head while they sleep, knowing that in too fewer hours that you’ll be woken by their hand or their foot.’
Professor Green has emotionally opened up about co-parenting his young son following his split from fiancée Karima McAdams
The English rapper, 41, parted ways with Karima in 2023 but they have been continuing to amicably co-parent their four-year-old son Slimane
He continued: ‘Even if you only get to see them before you briefly shoot back out to work, those bits are not there, you can’t echo good night once you’ve said it. Once the phone is put down, goodnight is goodnight. It’s not a good night, it’s not a great night.
‘You don’t get to cuddle, you don’t get to kiss, you don’t get to play fight – it ain’t right.’
Professor Green and Karima were first linked in July 2019, with the star proposing seven months after they welcomed Slimane.
Karima, who is half Moroccan and half Irish, is best known for starring in the spy series Deep State alongside Game Of Thrones actor Joe Dempsie.
Professor Green revealed earlier this month how he and Millie Mackintosh are back in touch almost a decade after their split.
The ex-couple married in 2013 but divorced just three years later.
In a candid interview, the Read All About It hitmaker he doesn’t hold any ‘resentment’ towards Millie.
He told Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast how he and Millie both ‘trauma bonded’ together over their previously undiagnosed ADHD.
Professor Green and Karima were first linked in July 2019, with the star proposing seven months after they welcomed Slimane
Professor Green revealed earlier this month how he and Millie Mackintosh are back in touch almost a decade after their split
He told Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast how he and Millie both ‘trauma bonded’ together over their previously undiagnosed ADHD (pictured in 2014)
He explained: ‘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.
‘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.’
Millie and Green finalised their divorce in May 2016, the same week that Millie chose to go public with Hugo Taylor, her former Made In Chelsea co-star boyfriend.
