Millie Mackintosh has taken to Instagram to share a teary-eyed selfie as she detailed her mental health struggles, hours after her ex-husband Professor Green revealed they’re back in touch.
The couple divorced in 2016 after just three years of marriage, but the rapper shared on Wednesday that despite their acrimonious split, he doesn’t hold any ‘resentment’ towards her.
In a candid podcast interview, Professor Green also admitted he’s ‘trauma bonded’ with ex Millie over their mutually undiagnosed ADHD, after sharing how he ‘very nearly’ called off their wedding in 2013.
Following his admissions, Millie posted a collection of photos and videos ‘re-introducing herself’ to her followers, including a snap of herself and husband Hugo Taylor from their wedding in 2018.
In the post, she shared how she’s spoken ‘openly’ about her struggles with anxiety, depression and ADHD, as she wants to reassure her fans they’re ‘not alone.’
The post was captioned: ‘A little reintroduction to some new faces and a thank you to those who have been on this journey with me from the start.’
Millie Mackintosh has taken to Instagram to share a teary-eyed selfie as she detailed her mental health struggles, after her ex-husband Professor Green revealed they’re back in touch
The couple divorced in 2016, but the rapper revealed in a candid podcast interview that he feels he and Millie are ‘trauma bonded’ over their mutually undiagnosed ADHD
Millie began with a short video of herself preparing lunch, along with the caption: ‘Hi I’m Millie, let me reintroduce myself.’
She then shared a picture from her wedding to Hugo, along with images of their daughters Siena, five, and Aurelia, three.
Along with snaps reflecting on her rise to fame on Made In Chelsea, her passion for fitness and lifestyle content, and her journey to sobriety, Millie shared insight into her struggles with anxiety, depression and ADHD, by posting a tearful selfie.
The post was captioned: ‘I speak openly about my experiences with anxiety, ADHD and depression, because I know how much it helps to hear you’re not alone.’
Millie then ended her post with another beaming snap, writing: ‘And if you’ve been here for a while, thanks for being here whether you’ve followed me for years or only just found my page, I’m so grateful to have you along for the ride.’
During an appearance on Millie’s friend Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast, Professor Green admitted they both felt ‘pressured’ to get married, and he almost called off the lavish Somerset nuptials over ‘cold feet’.
The rapper, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, revealed he’s now back in touch with his ‘beautiful’ ex-wife and has reflected on the former couple’s ‘trauma bond’ over their mutually undiagnosed ADHD.
He told Jamie: ‘If there wasn’t that pressure, we may have never got married. It very nearly didn’t happen.
Following her ex’s admissions, Millie shared a post ‘re-introducing herself’ to her followers, including a snap of herself and husband Hugo Taylor from their wedding in 2018
Millie began with a short video of herself preparing lunch, along with the caption: ‘Hi I’m Millie, let me reintroduce myself’
The former Made In Chelsea shared her passions with her followers, including her lifestyle content and her focus on fitness
Millie also shared how she’s spoken openly about her sobriety journey even penning a book about her decision to give up alcohol
Millie then ended her post with another beaming snap, writing: ‘And if you’ve been here for a while, thanks for being here whether you’ve followed me for years or only just found my page’
‘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 went on to call his ex wife ‘gorgeous’ explaining: ‘There’s no resentment in me. She is gorgeous. We were not good for each other at that time.’
‘We were for a point, and then, you know, I think things that we didn’t understand were happening, and it was way more than we could have ever.’
Millie previously admitted that she knew before her lavish 2013 nuptials at Babington House in Somerset that the relationship ‘wasn’t right but I was too scared to call it off because of the shame of letting everyone down.’
Speaking on Brogan Garrit-Smith’s podcast Getting There earlier this year, Millie 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.’
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.
They got engaged on the Greek island of Mykonos the following year, and tied the knot in Sussex in June 2018. They welcomed daughter Sienna in 2020 and daughter Aurelia the following year.
Professor Green went on to explain that they have recently got back in touch to support each other and reflect on their undiagnosed ADHD.
He said: ‘There was undiagnosed neurodivergence between both of us. We had a conversation about this recently, and it makes sense.’
Being open about his ADHD diagnosis, he added: ‘I don’t feel uncomfortable about these things anymore, but I felt uncomfortable for a huge part of my life.’
The musician, who was also diagnosed with autism as an adult, explained how he now realises he exhibited neurodiverse traits as a child, but ‘I didn’t have the understanding back then.’
During an appearance on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast, Professor Green shared that they both felt ‘pressured’ to get married, and he almost called off the wedding
‘I went through an assessment for autism after an assessment for ADHD, and wow, it was answering those questions,’ he explained.
‘When I was a kid, I used to count words, and I would tense my bicep for every word you were saying. It was just something that was calming in a situation that I found quite over stimulating.’
‘I didn’t have those words or understanding then. And because I was thought of as bright, the focus seemed to be on, well, when he’s here, he’s great.’
As a child he was referred to a psychiatrist but he says he was told his issues were related to his complicated upbringing which saw him raised by his grandmother following the breakdown of his teenage parents’ relationship.
‘I saw a psychiatrist when I was a kid, and everything was was handed over to my not having my dad around or my mum and dad not bringing me up, and therefore I was anxious.’