Matty Healy‘s controversial podcast comments from earlier this year have resurfaced amid his high-profile romance with Taylor Swift.
The 1975 frontman discussed a time he masturbated to porn of ‘brutalised’ women during an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show podcast in February.
Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen brought up an incident in which Friedland and a woman walked in on Healy masturbating to what they described as ‘hardcore pornography’ ’30 seconds’ after they left a party at Healy’s house.
The trio said Matty, 34, was watching Ghetto Gaggers, a porn site known for videos featuring the humiliation and brutalisation of mostly Black women.
Friedland explained how he and a female friend went back into Healy’s house after leaving the party when she realised she had forgotten her water bottle.
Shock remarks: Matty Healy’s controversial podcast comments from earlier this year have resurfaced amid his high-profile romance with Taylor Swift (Matty pictured in June last year)
Controversial: The 1975 frontman discussed a time he masturbated to porn of ‘brutalised’ women during an appearance on The Adam Friedland Show podcast in February (Matty and girlfriend Taylor Swift pictured together this month)
‘She went back in and Matty, like, on his phone and then on his 77-inch OLEDs just got Ghetto Gaggers blaring,’ Friedland said. ‘Thirty seconds after the hang, just hardcore pornography.’
Healy laughed as he told the podcast hosts: ‘It wasn’t just the… it was the combination of the fact that it was, you’re not exaggerating, it was 30 seconds. Like, you guys were still waiting outside, she came back in, I was already flustered.’
‘I was, like, dressed as “guy who is jacking off,” so I had, like, an untucked shirt. Like you said, I think it literally was, like, Ghetto Gaggers was on the TV. It’s just somebody just getting, like, brutalised,’ Healy continued.
He later added of the female friend who walked in on him: ‘It wasn’t some cool-scene New York art girl. It was little Olive, who came in like, “I’m so sorry, I’m just getting my water!”
‘Ten minutes would have been fine,’ he said in reference to how long it had been since his guests left. ‘But 30 seconds was kind of almost…I was worried that was offensive.’
A clip of the podcast has been recirculating online, with many of Taylor Swift’s fans calling for the US star to dump her new beau.
‘Seriously, it feels like she’s TRYING to get canceled again,’ one wrote on Reddit. ‘How is she okay with this?’ another fan asked.
One more posted: ‘If a bunch of strangers on the internet know about Matty Healy watching racist torture porn then just HOW would Taylor not know? She’s known that man for TEN YEARS and she doesn’t know how problematic and horrible he is? Yeah i’m not buying that at all.’
Pleas from fans: A clip of the podcast has been recirculating online, with many of Taylor Swift’s fans calling for the US star to dump her new beau
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Healy and Swift for comment.
In the same podcast episode Healy was accused of racism for comments made about the rapper Ice Spice.
Claiming he tried to message the rapper on Instagram, Healy along with Friedland and Mullen then appeared to confuse her heritage by referring to her as Inuit and Chinese, imitating and mocking the accents of each.
The podcast episode was later pulled from both Spotify and Apple Music because of its offensive content.
Healy apologised for the comments made about Ice Spice during a 1975 concert in New Zealand.
The musician told the crowd, as reported by Rolling Stone, that he ‘makes a joke out of everything’ and ‘can take it too far sometimes in front of too many people’.
Love story: Taylor and Matty were first linked in 2014 but they didn’t confirm their romance until this year (Taylor seen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this month)
‘Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued. It’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m a d***. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry,’ he said.
Healy was forced to deactivate his Twitter in 2020 after posting an ill-received tweet following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Healy tweeted at the time: ‘If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones,’ along with a link to his track Love It If We Made It.
The tie-in left many fans angered as they felt the vocalist was using the tragic death as a promotional vehicle.
Src: dailymail.co.uk
