What happened between Azealia Banks and Conor McGregor? DM drama explained

Azealia Banks has stirred up fresh controversy by posting what she says are explicit photos that Conor McGregor allegedly sent her without her consent. The outspoken rapper shared screenshots of the supposed messages from the ex-UFC fighter on X (formerly Twitter).

She accused him of sending her these unwanted photos and supposedly tried to scare her into silence. Banks, famous for her outspoken ways, made the fire bigger by making fun of McGregor's supposed moves. She tagged his acts as 'creepy and desperate behavior.'

Banks mocks McGregor's alleged threats with biting humor, turning leaked photos into viral fuel and questioning his political ambitions

While McGregor has not yet answered the claims, the posts have sparked new talks on how stars' private lives get out there, how they are messed with on social media, and how private talk and public show mix up when the famous fight online.

This new case just makes Banks' big past of online fights and McGregor's rough fame out of the ring even more clear. Banks went all in by posting everything directly to her feed. She fired off:

"How you gonna send a bitch some crooked dick pics then threaten her not to tell. @TheNotoriousMMA nig do you know who the fk I am? This is HARAM," and attached two full-frontal mirror selfies of McGregor — one tagged “Lifting weights” and the other carrying the threat..."

Azealia Banks exposes Conor McGregor over explicit messages and photos 🤳🏻 😱#AzealiaBanks #ConorMcGregor pic.twitter.com/7OV1yui6qj

— Sportskeeda MMA (@sportskeedaMMA) July 14, 2025

This fight got even wilder when Banks hit McGregor with her usual sharp humor, throwing punches that mixed mean jokes with tough questions about how he looks to others. She didn't hold back, making fun of the thought that someone like him, often said to want a job in politics back home, could act so wild on the web. Not stopping there, she added more heat in a follow-up:

"Like how are you really going to sexually harass me with the potato farmer dick then threaten me not to tell???? Honey…… ain’t u trying to be the president of Ireland what is it giving fam? Use some f***ing sunscreen damn."

In her posts, she mocked what she saw as his weak threat and called it silly given his big ambitions. Banks also ridiculed the photos and took shots at his rumored political plans, questioning how someone aiming for politics could behave this way.

Earlier that same morning, Banks also threw in, while sharing screenshots that displayed hidden media notices from someone she doesn't follow, all circling back to the warning about rats:

"The motherf*r woke up early LOL".... Don't be a rat cos all rats get caught." 

Banks didn't just put out screenshots online; she took it up a notch, making a big show of the messages for all her fans. She didn't hold back, calling out McGregor for what she saw as clear, unwelcome moves and threats to silence her.

For Banks, this mess was less about shock and more about using her smart words to pull the whole thing into the open and test the face McGregor shows to the world. 

Fresh beach sighting and past controversies keep McGregor's off-ring reputation under new scrutiny

Just days after Conor McGregor was spotted getting close to a woman who wasn’t his fiancée, Dee Devlin, on a Florida beach, fresh problems have surfaced for the Irish MMA fighter. 

People in Fort Lauderdale saw McGregor hanging out for a long time with this woman they did not know, laying out towels, his hand on her leg, and getting to the beach by water as if he did not care about the people looking. McGregor, who is 36 now, has been with Devlin since 2020, and they have four kids, often putting pictures of their family life on the web.

Yet, showing a strong family in public has not saved McGregor from new troubles: just last year, he lost a court case and had to pay over $250,000 after he was found to have hurt a woman.

Even with this new event and other claims coming out, including ones by Banks and the latest leak, McGregor has kept quiet in public, making people talk more about his personal life and how it might touch his wild story in and out of the fight ring.

What does the netizens say?

People everywhere are talking a lot about the new topic about Conor McGregor. They're all over the net, posting videos and pics and thinking out loud about what it might do to his love life and how others see him.

Some people have looked back at his old problems and court cases, while others are talking about if the new beach photos show more troubles in his life. 

Hashtags about McGregor started to trend soon after the pictures came out, getting thousands of comments and memes. In all, this has set off another big wave of talks online, with everyone checking for any news from McGregor or his soon-to-be wife.

"We got Conor McGregor doing this before GTA6," someone posted.

"At some point, the pattern of reckless behavior stops being shocking and just becomes who you are. Disappointing, but not surprising," a user commented.

"Bro is crazy," a netizen wrote.

Many net surfers have gone to different sites to talk about the case. Some have looked up old clips and talks to show McGregor's constant row of issues. Other folks have paid more mind to Banks' strong posts, talking over if her choice to share private texts and pics goes too far or shows more about star life.

This event has also started memes, reaction videos, and many talks digging into each bit. It shows how fast one leak can grow into a big talk on fame, keeping secrets, and the mixed lines between a known image and what we do in private.

"Bro can’t stop throwing hands or nudes apparently," a user commented.

"This isn’t the first time Conor McGregor has been accused of stepping out on his fiancée. In recent weeks, speculation about his alleged infidelity has gained traction, especially after photos surfaced of him kissing a mystery woman on a beach in Florida. The images, which went viral over the weekend, showed McGregor cosying up to the unidentified woman while enjoying drinks and sunbathing, without fiancée Dee Devlin in sight," another netizen expressed.

"Sheesh, Conor's PR team is working overtime rn," a user wrote.

The burst of online talks shows how fast a hidden time or claim about a famous person can move and grow into big talks. As folks share videos, funny pics, and talks, the story goes past just McGregor and Banks to hit on bigger ideas about keeping things private, taking responsibility, and how much of the stars' lives we should see and judge.

In the end, how people react shows the ever-present mix of wanting to know and judgment that sticks to famous people when their private fights come out into the open.

Who is Azealia Banks?

Azealia Banks has made a loud and clear mark as a rapper, singer and at times actress. She's as well-known for her strong words as she is for her music. Apart from her hit song 212 that made her a new voice in hip-hop, she's also acted in movies like Pitch Perfect, The Heat, and Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring.

Over time, Banks has been open about her struggles with mental health, telling the world she deals with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), PTSD and ADHD issues she says have often shaped her hard-to-guess public image. In late 2016, she shared the very private news of a miscarriage, a point that added to her layered public story.

Lately, she began fresh talk by saying she was a Zionist on X (formerly Twitter) in June 2025. She said only Afro-Palestinians should find a safe place in Israel and blamed other Palestinians for bad acts, a big flip from 2018, when she said she'd never go back to Israel after facing bad treatment there.

This big change made her pull out from planned shows at Boomtown Festival in Hampshire and London’s Maiden Voyage Festival, and she said later that she was pushed to stand with Palestine.

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