It seems Taylor Swift has no regrets about moving on from Matty Healy following The 1975 frontman’s aggressive online spat with Azealia Banks.
Healy and Banks got into it again last Tuesday, as the 35-year-old boasted about wanting to “slap” the rapper after her public remarks about him and fiancee Gabrriette Bechtel.
“Talk to me like that I’m not gonna side eye you at an awards do I’ll f****** slap you so hard I’ll get a Guinness world record for the highest a rat some bitch calls a wig has ever flown,” Healy tweeted.
The fact that Healy threatened physical violence towards Banks resulted in a public outcry, and it appears Swift is all the more convinced about her decision to move on from him.
“There is a reason why Taylor didn’t get deeply involved with him after her split from Joe Alwyn,” a source told DailyMail.com.
“She has known Matty a very long time and she had worked with him professionally, but she is no longer in communication with him.
“In no way should a man ever threaten to harm a woman, or anyone else for that matter. He is facing demons clearly. Taylor knows his family as well and everyone just really hopes that he gets the help he needs before it is too late.”
Another source added: “Taylor is disappointed by Matty’s recent behavior and it has kind of reaffirmed that moving on from him was the right decision.
“She was shocked that he threatened to assault Azealia.”
How the Healy-Banks drama began
The controversy all began when Azealia hit out at Charlie XCX, who is the fiancee of Healy’s bandmate George Daniel.
“Charli used to be sooo pretty. Ugh,” she wrote. That didn’t well with Matty who fired back with: “All the women you attack seem to be culturally relevant, attractive, divisive and NICE people. I think this makes you jealous cos you’re so talented but everything else about you is a failure. Just rap bro.”
He then took things further by defending his own fiancee: “And on that point if I see one little s**t bag twitter barista say ONE thing about my Gabi, EVER, I will use my mental illness to full affect and I will dox and f**k you up. I’m so over pretending to have different standards online cos it’s ‘not real’. Well, a f***in slap is.”
From there Azealia responded by insulting Gabriette and Matty: “The b***h look[s] like Frankenstein to me. You both look like you share needles. Lmao.”
That’s when Healy responded in controversial fashion, before later backtracking.
“Nah I can’t be saying I’m gonna hit a girl that’s insane I’m sorry. You just can’t keep being so mean about my mates and my mrs it’s really hurtful gets me well defensive,” he wrote.
Azealia late threatened to sue Healy over his comments, after which he offered an apology.
“What a bad day, I really let myself down. I have worked so hard to move past these impulsive self destructive and honestly quite volatile outbursts I have,” he wrote.
“I’m constantly making trouble for myself for no reason, I come back to social media after depressive episodes (which is NOT an excuse) because I often become sober, so as an addict when I’m not using I pick up social media my new way of “consuming” and changing how I feel.
“I just feel dreadful about how I acted violent – I think Azealia and all obvious flawed people all deep down have a heart and I hate that I have contributed to her mental fragility. She’s a human.
“This cultural discourse has become so violent in general. I don’t wanna act like I regret who I am or who have been. But Tbh at this point I feel gross even having said anything negative ever about anything – if it’s contributed to this culture.”
