Ice Spice Comments
One of Matty’s most recent controversies began when Ice Spice told Elle Magazine that she was “obsessed” with The 1975 during an interview published in January 2023.
Later that month, Matty made derogatory comments about the rapper’s appearance while speaking to Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen when he visited “The Adam Friedland Show.”
“This chubby Chinese lady. ‘Yeah, I rap and [make] music.’ Do they talk like that? Do Inuits talk like that?” Adam and Nick joked. They went on to refer to the “Princess Diana” rapper as an “Inuit Spice Girl.”
Matty added, “Yeah, that’s what Ice Spice is like.”
The podcast episode has since been removed from Apple Music and Spotify, though circulated online when the “Chocolate” singer was romantically linked to Taylor in May 2023.
After the episode aired, Matty publicly apologized for making the comments during a concert in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2023.
“I’m kind of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you,” he told the crowd. “Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued. It’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d–k. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry.”
He said that the comments were “a bit irresponsible” and told the crowd that he doesn’t “understand how famous [he is].”
“The truth is, I see a sign that says like, ‘Matty, I hope you’re okay.’ I feel a bit bad, to be honest,” Matty continued. “I don’t like being famous. But reality is reality. And I think that I’ve said some things or kind of, I make a joke out of everything. That’s my thing. And I can take it too far sometimes in front of too many people. And I feel a bit embarrassed. So that’s the truth.”
However, Matty seemingly doubled down on his comments a month later in an interview with The New Yorker, admitting that he was baiting fans “a little bit, but it doesn’t actually matter.”
“Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s wrong, darling?’ and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen,” he said. “If it does, you’re either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar. You’re either lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt. It’s just people going, ‘Oh, there’s a bad thing over there, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am.’ And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”
