Matty Healy apologises after threatening to 'slap' Azealia Banks ‘so hard’ over Charli XCX diss
Hindustan TimesMatty Healy’s longstanding feud with Azealia Banks took a wild turn this week, with the 1975 frontman threatening to "slap" the rapper after she dissed his bandmate’s fiancée, Charli XCX. Matty Healy threatens to slap Azealia Banks “Azealia you seem to have a blind spot when it comes to your ‘reads’. While many social media users defended Charli XCX against Banks’ comments, with one saying, “Yeah, she used to be pretty, but she’s even more gorgeous now,” things took a nasty turn when Banks dragged Healy’s fiancée, Gabbriette Bechtel, calling her “Frankenstein” and adding, “You both look like you share needles.” Losing his control over the words, the Somebody Else singer wrote, “Talk to me like that I’m not gonna side eye you at an awards do I’ll f–king slap you so hard I’ll get a Guinness world record for the highest a rat some bitch calls a wig has ever flown.” Matty Healy apologises after threatening to ‘slap’ Azealia Banks After a shocking tweet from the 1975 member, Banks took to X to ask her followers, “What type of pu*** a* ni** goes online and incriminates himself this way? You just can’t keep being so mean about my mates and my mrs it’s really hurtful gets me well defensive,” he wrote, adding, “Ok I’m gonna delete that tweet that was not cool even if I was angry.” Azealia Banks wasn’t ready to accept Matty Healy’s apology.