Professor Green has been slammed by fans after taking a scathing swipe at his ex-girlfriend Fae Williams, by claiming she’s ‘downgraded’ by allegedly moving on to a new romance with Dan Crowe.
The 34-year-old rapper is a staunch campaigner for mental health awareness, yet Twitter users insisted he was contradicting his work by hitting out at the duo, although some fans claimed he was within his rights.
On Tuesday, the star, who was previously married to Millie Mackintosh, captioned the mean-spirited post: ‘When your ex downgrades… I’ve really gotta stop giving birds careers, means you bump into em once you’ve dumped em.’ [sic]
Happier times: Professor Green has been slammed by fans after taking a scathing swipe at his ex-girlfriend Fae Williams, by claiming she’s ‘downgraded’ by moving on to a new romance with Dan Crowe
Green’s original Instagram post was a screenshot from a video originally posted to Fae’s own social media account, which showed the tattoo artist downing a cocktail in one go as they vacationed in Ibiza.
Adding insult to injury, he even directly tagged tattoo artist Dan in the post, which garnered more than 8,000 likes in less than three hours – yet the London-born rapper appeared to have second thoughts and deleted the post from Instagram.
Despite removing the image from the photo-sharing site, he left up the tweet which linked back to the post – leading to divided reaction from followers.
One of his 2.05million followers penned: ‘You promote mental health yet here you are giving two people a public s**gging off. So what if your ex had a guy on her insta story, you’re not with her. Your comments on this are just plain nasty and she hasn’t mentioned you on social media once. Bad form…
Hitting out: The 34-year-old rapper is a staunch campaigner for mental health awareness, yet Twitter users insisted he was contradicting his work by hitting out at the duo, although some fans claimed he was within his rights
Mean-spirited: Green’s original Instagram post was a screenshot from a video originally posted to Fae’s own social media account, which showed the tattoo artist downing a cocktail in one go as they vacationed in Ibiza
Defensive: Supporters however penned: ‘Its never hard to downgrade – its the opgrade that precents a challange… Wait. How does posting something on social media so called ‘slagging someone off’ have anything to do with mental health?’
Other fans who seemed perturbed by the post continued: ‘Bad form bruv, clearly this gained your interest… Lol no love lost…. Brutal… There is no comeback to this comment… With looking desperate… And a stalker.’
Despite this, supporters of the star penned: ‘Its never hard to downgrade – its the opgrade that precents a challange… Wait. How does posting something on social media so called ‘slagging someone off’ have anything to do with mental health?’
Back in February, Green visited west London school Ark Burlington Danes Academy alongside the Duke Of Cambridge, who was voicing his concern for teens and cyber-bullying.
After the visit, Green stated: ‘A brilliant morning with HRH Duke of Cambridge… discussing mental health and cyber bullying – the correlation between both and how we can all be a bit kinder to one another’.
Last March, Green and model Adwoa Aboah collaborated with the BBC and the Heads Together charity to try help spark conversation and end the stigma surrounding mental health.
Green’s eyebrow-raising social media post comes weeks after he wrote a lengthy diatribe on break-ups – despite insisting it’s not about his exes.
In depth chat: Last March, Green and model Adwoa Aboah (pictured) collaborated with the BBC and the Heads Together charity to try help spark conversation and end the stigma surrounding mental health
Questionable actions: Back in February, Green visited west London school Ark Burlington Danes Academy alongside the Duke Of Cambridge, who was voicing his concern for teens and cyber-bullying
In depth: After the visit, Green stated: ‘A brilliant morning with HRH Duke of Cambridge… discussing mental health and cyber bullying – the correlation between both and how we can all be a bit kinder to one another’
Scathing remarks: Other fans who seemed perturbed by the post continued: ‘Bad form bruv, clearly this gained your interest… Lol no love lost…. Brutal… There is no comeback to this comment… With looking desperate… And a stalker’
The musician wrote his first column for The Book Of Man about the painful stages of splits, just days after his relationship with girlfriend Fae ended.
Green spoke about the sex drying up in relationships, and how break ups involve ‘stuffing your noses full of cocaine,’ drinking yourself stupid and ‘s**gging your way out’ of getting over it.
Green’s recent ex Fae was said to be ‘in the process of moving out’ of his London home last week, and his latest column speaks volumes about what he could be experiencing.
He talks about stalking his exes online, and speaks of an ‘ex shaped void’ as he describes the ‘sh***y emotions’ men typically experience in break ups.
Clip: In the brief video, shared to Fae’s Instagram Story, Dan is seen holding a full cocktail glass
Drink: After encouragement from the person filming, presumably Fae, he gulps down the drink
Gulp: After downing the entire drink in one go, he is seen struggling to keep it all in his mouth
‘Do you message her or not? The ex,’ he asks. ‘Even if you’ve made the decision, or it was a mutual decision to break up (it’s never quite mutual), there’s still an ex-shaped hole in your life; a void that you have to fill.
‘You could message her, telling her you’ll change every behaviour that’s been pushing her away now that you realise she’s serious about leaving – but will you?’
He describes posting pictures that feature girls to make ‘her really jealous’ and partying until you make new friends to have inevitable ‘sex you won’t remember’.
‘[But] Come downs make it a lot harder to control impulse and also make sadness feel more like impending doom. Or doom. It’s like grieving, only different, because it’s not the death of a person you’re mourning, it’s the death of something.’
Separation: His split with first wife Millie Mackintosh (here in May 2015) in 2016 was also a bitter pill to swallow
Professor Green talks about past lives with girlfriends saying that nights in bed become ‘more Netflix than Chill’ because ‘the sex stopped ages ago’.
He even recounts a dramatic experience of an ex throwing scissors at him when she told her she’d drunk too much – even though he insists that any resemblance with his own experiences is down to ‘coincidence’.
Model Fae and hitmaker Green split two weeks ago after 18 months together, reportedly on ‘good terms’.
It was his first long-term relationship since the demise of his marriage to Made In Chelsea star Millie.
Has she moved on? Pro Green spoke about all of the ‘sh***y emotional’ stages men experience during break-ups
Sources claimed the end to his three-year union with Millie was particularly sad for Green, who wanted to children, but their fiery arguments became too much to bear.
‘It’s really sad for Stephen because he’s a lovely and sensitive guy who will make a great dad one day,’ a source told The Sun at the time.
‘They loved each other but would have these crazy explosive rows.’
The couple married in 2013 at Babington House, Somerset, in a celebration attended by Lily Allen and other Made In Chelsea stars.
Bouncing back: Though he says any resemblance to his own life is coincidence, he speaks about how men typically deal with emotional splits