It’s been seven months since Matty Healy stirred controversy when he made some racist remarks about Ice Spice throughout an look on The Adam Friedland Present in February. In a brand new function for Selection, the “Princess Diana” rapper — who remained quiet all through the incident — spoke out about her ideas.
“Once I had heard that little podcast or no matter, I used to be so confused,” she informed the publication. “As a result of I heard ‘chubby Chinese language woman’ or some s— like that, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What does that even imply?’ To start with, I’m thick. What do you imply Chinese language? What? However then they apologized or no matter. And the entire time, I didn’t actually care.”
Within the Friedland episode, the present’s hosts performed a clip of the “Munch” rapper speaking about her love of other music, together with Coldplay and The 1975 from an Elle interview in January. The hosts and Healy then start speculating on Spice’s ethnicity, with jokes about her sounding like an “Inuit Spice Lady,” a “chubby Chinese language woman” and one in all them saying, “‘Yeah, I rap and make music’ Do they speak like that? Do Inuits speak like that?” The audio of the podcast then discovered Healy and the hosts imitating Chinese language and Hawaiian accents as they laughed.
After one of many males advised Healy ought to have requested about her ethnic background whereas dropping an Inuit ethnic slur, Healy referred to as Ice Spice “dumb.” The offensive episode was pulled from Apple and Spotify earlier this month however can nonetheless be heard on Youtube, and Healy went on to apologize for his feedback.
Ice Spice revealed that she has seen seen Healy in particular person, and The 1975 frontman gave her a private apology. “I noticed him on the Jean Paul Gaultier celebration a pair days in the past, and he was like, ‘Hey, you OK?’ and I’m like, ‘In fact.’ He apologized to me a bunch of occasions. We’re good,” she mentioned.
