Our divorce was expensive but it was worth it
Pro Green blasts ex Millie Mackintosh
My career catapulted her into a position she wouldn’t have been in PROFESSOR GREEN ON MILLIE MACKINTOSH
RAPPER Professor Green has admitted his marriage to Made In Chelsea’s Millie Mackintosh turned toxic and said their divorce was “expensive but worth it”.
The singer, real name Stephen Manderson, split from Millie, 28, in 2016 after a two-year marriage.
The divorce took just 30 seconds in a London court and the couple cited “unreasonable behaviour”.
Laying into his ex, the 34-year-old said: “I’ve got a very large mortgage now... but you know what they say about divorce – it’s expensive. You know why? Cos it’s worth it!”
Interviewed for a new TV series, he told John Bishop he felt Millie used his chart success to increase her own fame.
He said: “We must have been in love... but it became toxic. I was at that point of my career and it catapulted her into a position she wouldn’t have otherwise been in, but she fed off that...”
Professor Green also told Bishop his first film, Professor Green: Suicide and Me, started off as a more general project. He added: “I agreed to do a documentary on male suicide, not my Dad’s suicide and halfway through filming there was a meeting... and they said the narrative that works here is your story.
“And I threw my toys out the pram, cos I didn’t want people to see me as being that vulnerable. Then I slept on it and I realised really that’s the problem here and there’s actually a strength in admitting to those vulnerabilities, because the problem is people try and take on too much themselves...”
Referring to his success making gritty documentaries about depression and other topics on estates, he added: “I was still living in a council flat when I started doing well. All I’d wanted to do my whole life was get out of a bloody council flat.
“And then in the last, you know, three years of film making all I’ve done is take myself back to the bloody council flat.”
John Bishop: In Conversation With Professor Green is on W, on July 5, 10pm.