Professor Green shares cryptic post amid ex-wife Millie Mackintosh's split from husband Hugo Taylor - months after he shared they're 'back in touch' following 'toxic' marriage

Professor Green has shared a cryptic post on his social media, hours after news of his ex-wife Millie Mackintosh's marital split came to light.

Twice-married Millie is currently in the midst of a separation from her husband Hugo Taylor after seven years of marriage.

The Made In Chelsea couple, who share daughters Sienna, five, and Aurelia, four, have quietly split following a difficult start to the year.

Her devastating heartbreak mirrors the breakdown of her marriage to the rapper 10 years ago. 

Millie endured a turbulent divorce with the rapper, who she wed in 2013 and divorced three years later, with the pair recently stating the marriage was 'very toxic'. 

The rapper, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, revealed last October he was back in touch with his 'beautiful' ex-wife after a decade.

Now, after Daily Mail revealed Millie had separated from Hugo, Stephen shared a video on Instagram alongside the caption: 'The ship has sailed... not very far'. 

The former couple rarely spoke about their marriage until last year, which saw them both openly reflect on their past conflict. 

Just days after the heiress split from Stephen, she was pictured moving on with Hugo - which appeared to be the beginning of their bitter divorce.

After Millie wasted no time in publicly kissing Hugo, Stephen shared pointed remarks about her appearance including: 'Money really can't buy you class can it' and 'London's Gurning'.

His comments appeared to be the start of Millie and Stephen's fall out which took a decade to heal. 

During their relationship, Millie and Stephen's very different backgrounds were often discussed.

Millie was educated privately at Hanford Boarding School in Dorset and her family invented Quality Street, although they sold the business years ago.

Meanwhile, Stephen grew up in an impoverished area of East London and survived being attacked in the neck with a broken bottle in a Shoreditch nightclub in 2009.

Following their separation, Stephen appeared to take a swipe at his ex-wife in the lyrics to 2016 single, Eye On The Door.

Lamenting an apparent lack of action between the sheets in the opening verse, the rapper suggests he and Millie spent most of their time watching box sets.

Stephen also suggests she regularly kicked him out of the marital home in south-east London and would only allow him back in if he returned with a gift of material significance.

He raps: 'Me an the Mrs we are getting along/Till I do something wrong - then it's another domestic/People wanna know what my life's like.

'Behind closed doors what's my wife like/It gets crazy in bed - We watch a couple episodes/Of a box set and and then it's night night/When she hears this s**t it's lights out/I'll probably get kicked out of my house/Till I come back with a brand new Chanel bag.'

A second verse finds Stephen's protagonist wrestling with his conscience; on the one hand fretting about divorce, while on the other putting his wife's feelings to one side while he parties with pals.

Referring to his use of drugs, he raps: 'One minute it was one, the next it was six/S**t I'm dead - I don't know where the time went.

'Where's my phone? S**t sixty-one missed calls/A divorce is on the cards if I don't split/And get my a**e in gear - I'm asking for it.

'A b****rd ain't I - auf wiedersehen/Better get my a**e in gear and get a car quick though, if I'm already gonna get my a**e kicked?

'Then pass it/What's one more half, what's one more spliff/What's one more glass/What's one more line, what's one more toke/I'm already a dead man when I get home.' 

Last year, Stephen explained that he and Millie both 'trauma bonded' together over their previously undiagnosed ADHD.

Stephen lifted the lid on their divorce in a podcast interview with her close friend and former Made In Chelsea co-star Jamie Laing for his Great Company podcast. 

He said: 'There was undiagnosed neurodivergence between both of us. We had a conversation about this recently, and it makes sense.

'I don't feel uncomfortable about these things anymore, but I felt uncomfortable for a huge part of my life.'

He added: 'If there wasn't that pressure, we may have never got married. It very nearly didn't happen.

'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 also called his ex-wife 'beautiful' as he added: 'There's no resentment in me. She is gorgeous. We were not good for each other at that time.'

Following his rare admissions, Millie shared a pointed remark on her Instagram platform.

She re-posted a quote that read: 'There's only one thing more precious than our time... And it's who we spend it on.'

Just weeks before her separation from Hugo, Millie spoke about her 'toxic' marriage to Stephen and admitted her divorce caused her drink problems to spiral. 

Speaking on Brogan Garrit-Smith's podcast Getting There, 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 added 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.'

Her drinking and self-medicating intensified during this time period as she explained the public nature of her split meant 'I had to do it [drink] privately.'

'I had just got divorced and was with Hugo. I was incredibly anxious, I barely eating, I was medicating with Xanax. I was not well. And just whenever the feelings would come up, I just remember just taking another pill. I was it was a really hard time.'

Millie happily revealed that she and her ex are 'actually in a nice place now. We both moved on and started families. We've sent each other pictures of our kids. It feels like there's no bad blood.'

Millie and Hugo, who met as teenagers and first dated during E4's Made In Chelsea, had been married since June 2018.

A source revealed amid the split: 'Millie and Hugo are currently going through a separation and have sadly decided to split. 

'They have known each other for many years, and in recent weeks, have had serious conversations about their future, ultimately deciding it's better for them both to part ways. 

'Their main priority remains their children and family life, and separating is not something they ever hoped would happen.

'At present, they are considering what living apart might look like and how they plan to navigate co-parenting their young children.

'It's been an incredibly difficult start to the year, and one they hope to continue managing in private.' 

Millie travelled to India last week to attend a wellness retreat designed to 'heal' the nervous system while Hugo was on a skiing holiday. 

During her stay, the reality star, who was pictured without her wedding ring, shared several posts alluding to a new chapter in her life. 

On Sunday, she posted a quote that read: 'You don't always have to know what comes next in your journey. 

'Sometimes you just need to be where you are and know that it's okay to be there. There is so much beauty in accepting yourself, right here, in this moment. 

'No matter what you are working towards, I hope you can always remember that finding peace in the present moment is just as important as the path ahead.'

In another Instagram story, she shared the quote: 'And then the moon said to me, dear girl, it's time to own your f***ing power.' 

Influencer Millie first met Hugo as a teenager, and they began dating when she was 21, rising to fame together on the E4 reality series.

In recent years, Millie has been open with her fans about her past struggles with alcohol, which led her to become teetotal and write the book Bad Drunk, as well as her journey in overcoming severe anxiety. 

Millie has spoken candidly about how she began binge drinking at a young age while at boarding school, using alcohol to cope with being away from home, bullying and her own insecurities.

She released Bad Drunk last year, documenting her journey to sobriety and her efforts to let go of the toxic cycles and shame associated with her past.

After joining Made In Chelsea at 21, Millie said her drinking escalated even further as she faced trolling over her appearance, which triggered anxiety and panic attacks.

During a new interview with Roxie Nafousi on her podcast Rise With Roxie, Millie spoke candidly about the difficulties she and Hugo experienced during their marriage.

She explained how she would mix Xanax or Valium with alcohol to ease her hangovers, admitting she had replaced one addiction with another and concealed her substance use from her husband, Hugo.

Millie said: 'I mean, I hid it from him. Like he didn't know, the Xanax use was like he didn't really know that was going on. 

'I wouldn't tell him that I was taking it, but the drinking definitely did cause a lot of fallouts and yeah towards the end I knew also if I didn't stop that it was really causing the relationship a lot of damage. It was just drama.'  

Millie has often reflected on her relationship with Hugo and the ups and downs they have experienced over the years.

On Valentine's Day in 2024, she shared a series of loved-up photos with Hugo on Instagram, captioning the post: 'I met Hugo when I was just 16, which means I've now known him for more than half of my lifetime!

'I feel so lucky to have found my soulmate - our path to each other may have had a few detours but we ultimately found our way, and I am truly blessed to be on this crazy journey called life with you and our beautiful children. 

'Happy Valentine's Day, here's to countless more together, my love.'

The year before, Hugo shared his love and admiration for Millie, admitting he had been 'obsessed' with his wife from the moment they met.

On Instagram, he wrote: 'Love is pure happiness, obsession, someone you can't live without. I've felt this way about you since the day we met over 20 years ago. Happy Valentine's Day.'

Millie responded to his declaration by calling him her 'life partner' and saying how they couldn't live without each other.

To celebrate their first year of marriage, Hugo wrote Millie a love letter, which she framed and later shared on Instagram. In it, he penned: 'I am so proud of you. 

'For 365 days you have shown me what true love really is. By the strength of you character the humility of your spirit and generosity of your soul, you have raised up our marriage to heights I never thought would be possible.

'You have led us with courage and fortitude through tumultuous and difficult times to be stronger than I ever could have imagined. I have learnt from you that one never gives up in working to build a life together.

'I promise to the day I die, I will never take you for granted, never stop trying to make every year of our lives together as happy as our first together to never let you down and always give you what you deserve.'

The Daily Mail has contacted Millie and Hugo's representatives for comment.