How Millie Mackintosh and Professor Green buried the hatchet over a shared bond of parenthood and sobriety – and are now on ‘better terms than they have been in a decade’ after toxic divorce, rumours of infidelity and THAT savage diss track

Millie Mackintosh and her ex-husband Professor Green are on their “best situation in a decade” after their toxic split and subsequent divorce highlighted the issue.

The former couple ended their three-year marriage in 2016 and Green, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, confirmed they had reconciled after nine years of silence.

Friends claim her ex-wife, who is now remarried to British rapper and Made In Chelsea co-star Hugo Taylor, has pushed lingering resentments aside in favor of their friendship.

A source told Sun: ‘Stephen and Millie fell head over heels when they were together but they will both admit it wasn’t the right time.

‘They have both moved on, Millie is living a perfect life with her two daughters, but Stephen’s relationship is a little more turbulent.

‘But there is a big change; They’ve started talking again and are better off than they have been in ten years.

The former couple ended their three-year marriage in 2016 and Green, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, confirmed they had reconciled after nine years of silence.

‘The fact that they’re both parents has played a big part and they’ve both grown so much. ‘They’ve also both stopped drinking, which was a big problem when they were together.’

Mackintosh is now parents to five-year-old daughters Siena and three-year-old Aurelia with Taylor, while Green is raising four-year-old son Slimane with his actress partner Karima Adebibe.

During a candid podcast interview with his close friend, the rapper revealed that he’s reconnected with his ex-wife and chose her In Chelsea co-star Jamie Laing. Big Company podcast.

Green explained that he and Mackintosh were ‘bonded by trauma’ due to their previously undiagnosed ADHD.

He said: ‘There was an undiagnosed neurological difference between the two of us. We talked about this recently and it made sense.

‘I’m not bothered by these things anymore, but I was for most of my life.’

She added: ‘If it wasn’t for that pressure we might never have gotten married. It almost didn’t happen.

‘I remember talking to my two best friends, Lewis and Phoenix. “Am I scared? What’s going on here?” And someone said yes. One of them said, “No, I’m not going to bring him into this because it’s not their responsibility.”

The former couple finalized their divorce in May 2016, the same week Mackintosh chose to go public with Hugo Taylor (a photo taken while attending a Hugo Boss event in 2024).

The rapper revealed that he is back in touch with his ex-wife during a candid podcast interview with close friend Jamie Laing for the Great Company podcast.

‘I made my own decision. We made our decision and didn’t get married for the wrong reasons. We loved each other.

‘It was probably an element of traumatic bonding. And it takes a long time to get to a point where, “I had a significant part in it, at least 50%, because there were two of us in this situation and it didn’t work out.”

‘But I hope we can both move forward and find happiness and belonging.’

He also called his ex-wife ‘beautiful’ as he added: ‘There’s no resentment in me. She’s amazing.

‘We weren’t very nice to each other back then.’

Following Green’s confessions, Mackintosh shared a pointed statement on the Instagram platform.

Green revealed he and Mackintosh were ‘bonded by trauma’ due to their previously undiagnosed ADHD

Mackintosh and Taylor got engaged the following year on the Greek island of Mykonos and married in Sussex in June 2018. The couple welcomed their daughter Sienna in 2020 and their daughter Aurelia in 2021.

On Wednesday, he reposted the quote: ‘There is only one thing more valuable than our time…

‘And who do we spend it on?’

The former couple finalized their divorce in May 2016, the same week Mackintosh chose to go public with Taylor.

Following their split, Green lashed out at his ex-wife in the lyrics of his 2016 single Eye On The Door.

Bemoaning a distinct lack of action between the sheets in the opening verse, the rapper suggests that he and Mackintosh spent most of their time watching box sets.

Green also claims that he regularly kicked her out of his matrimonial home in south-east London and would only allow her to return if she returned with a gift of material significance.

He raps: ‘Me and the Missus get along fine/Until I do something wrong – then it’s just another chore/People wanna know what my life is like.

‘What’s my wife like behind closed doors/She goes crazy in bed – We watch a few episodes of a box set and then it’s night/The lights go out when she hears it/I’ll ​​probably get kicked out of my house/Until she comes back with a brand new Chanel bag.’

During an appearance on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast, Green admitted that both she and Mackintosh felt ‘pressured’ about getting married and almost called off the wedding.

Following Green’s confessions, Mackintosh shared a pointed statement on the Instagram platform.

In a second verse, Pro Green’s protagonist struggles with his conscience; While he worries about divorce, he also puts his wife’s feelings aside while partying with his friends.

Referring to drug use, he sings: ‘A minute ago was a minute, then it was six/S**t I’m dead; I don’t know where the time went.

‘Where is my phone? Sixty-one missed calls/There’s a chance of divorce if I don’t leave/And let me get into gear – I want this.

‘Aren’t I a bastard – auf wiedersehen / Still might as well put it in gear and buy a car, if I’m gonna get my ass kicked anyway?

‘So give it to me/Not one more half, not one more drink/Not one more glass/Not one more line, not one more toke/When I come home I’m already a dead man.’

Mackintosh and Taylor got engaged the following year on the Greek island of Mykonos and married in Sussex in June 2018.

The couple welcomed their daughter Sienna in 2020 and their daughter Aurelia in 2021.

Speaking on Brogan Garrit-Smith’s podcast Getting There Earlier this year Mackintosh said she went through a ‘really tough time’ when she got divorced.

‘I think we [Professor Green] “They were both going through their own struggles, and I think we both thought we could fix each other,” she reflected on her marriage. ‘But we couldn’t.’

‘And ultimately we both had our own struggles and that just made it bigger. And it was actually quite toxic.”