He lives “in semi-isolation in SoHo with Gigi Hadid.” “Everything is great,” he says of their relationship, which weathered a brief, but very public, split and reconciliation earlier this year. Small things that I would never have expected.”

There’s things that happen and things that were said after I left… Snide things. I ain’t spoke to any of them for a long time, to be honest with you. I don’t like to confer with too many people.” Does he see any of the band still? “Nah. “Yeah, I have always been a bit like that, though – always a bit of an island. He doesn’t call any One Direction dude a friend: Zayn says he came away from his five years in One Direction without having made a single friend.

People take it different ways – especially when there are five different personalities. I guess that kind of progression to any mind – but especially when you’re 17, 18 – it kind of affects you a little bit. On the One Direction days: “We went from theatres, to arenas, to stadiums – there was never any sort of bridge between. Do you still believe in him? Zayn has an interview in the latest issue of British Vogue, and the first excerpts are not great: Do I still believe in Zayn? I don’t know. I understand that he has anxiety and he’s a moody bastard, and that One Direction messed with his head in a lot of different ways. That’s where I think I am with Zayn now – there was so much promise, and it’s been largely unfulfilled. I’ve gone through a lot of different phases with how I feel about Zayn Malik, from thinking he was a little sh-t, to thinking he was the next big solo artist, to thinking that he’s on drugs, to thinking that on a fundamental level, every single person who became famous in their teen years is going to be a screwed up adult. photographed by styled by and grooming by post shared by British Vogue on at 3:01am PST Click the link in bio to read a preview from the interview. But who is the real Zayn? Read interview in the December issue of #BritishVogue, hitting newsstands on Friday.

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