The rapper spoke with ‘Rolling Stone’ over a year after The 1975 frontman appeared on ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ podcast in February 2023

Ice Spice is sharing her thoughts on Matty Healy.

Now over a year after The 1975 frontman, 35, appeared on a podcast and laughed along at racially insensitive jokes about the Grammy nominee, she confirmed again — this time to Rolling Stone in a new cover story interview — that Healy has since “apologized multiple times” after the fact.

“I actually was late as f— to that,” Ice, real name Isis Gaston, said of Healy’s February 2023 appearance on The Adam Friedland Show podcast. “I didn’t know about it until like a month after or something like that.”

“He apologized multiple times, but I didn’t realize how big of a deal it was to other people,” Ice, 24, added. “I feel like people just wanted something to be mad about, I guess. I wasn’t angry or sad or anything. I was just kind of confused. I never really cared about that.”

Elsewhere in Rolling Stone‘s September 2024 cover story, Ice Spice explained that she continues to listen to The 1975, adding “I’m still a huge fan.”

As previously reported, Healy controversially appeared on The Adam Friedland Show early last year, when he told hosts Friedland and Nick Mullen that he DM’d Ice Spice and she didn’t respond. The hosts called Ice Spice (who has a Black father and a mother of Dominican descent) “Inuit Spice Girl” and put on Chinese and Hawaiian accents. Healy did not partake in the jokes but could be heard laughing along with them.

In the months to follow, Healy issued an apology on stage during an April 2023 concert in New Zealand. At the time, Healy claimed his comments were “misconstrued” and told the crowd he “never meant to hurt anybody” as he directly addressed the rapper.

“Sorry if I’ve offended you. Ice Spice, I’m sorry. It’s not because I’m annoyed that me joking got misconstrued, it’s ’cause I don’t want Ice Spice to think that I’m a dick,” he said. “I love you Ice Spice…. It’s OK for me to be like, a trickster or whatever, but I don’t want to be perceived as mean-hearted.”

He then continued: “We all get it wrong, and I just have to do it in public and then apologize to Ice Spice and my life’s just a bit weird. But I am genuinely sorry if I upset her ’cause I f—ing love her.”

Before then, during a March interview with The New Yorker, Healy — whose stage persona often blurs the lines between what’s real and what he considers an acted “bit” — claimed he’d purposely baited his fans “a little bit.”

“It doesn’t actually matter,” he said. “Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s wrong, darling?’ and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen.”

He added: “If it does, you’re either deluded or you are, sorry, a liar. You’re either lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt. It’s just people going, ‘Oh, there’s a bad thing over there, let me get as close to it as possible so you can see how good I am.’ And I kind of want them to do that, because they’re demonstrating something so base level.”

The rapper previously spoke about Healy’s apologies last fall, telling Variety in September, “I saw him at the Jean Paul Gaultier party a couple days ago, and he was like, ‘Hey, you OK?’ and I’m like, ‘Of course,'” she told the magazine. “He apologized to me a bunch of times. We’re good.”

Ice Spice — who is currently embarking on a world tour — is now preparing to release her debut album Y2K later this week. Speaking with Rolling Stone about the career milestone, the “Deli” rapper said she “definitely wanted to branch out more and try different sounds” on the project, which features appearances from Travis Scott, Gunna and Central Cee.

“I just love the Y2K aesthetics as a whole, how people dressed,” she said. “That’s just my s—. I would just say it’s very c–ty.”

Y2K arrives on Friday, July 26.