One Direction, the British-Irish boy band consisting of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, embarked on their world-famous careers together after premiering on X Factor in 2010. Five years later, Zayn Malik decided to leave the team suddenly, leaving his bandmates and the world in shock. Now, in an interview on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Louis Tomlinson said he felt hurt because he didn’t know about the younger man’s decision until after it happened. He also revealed how things were going one night before he left and where he is now.
Louis Tomlinson remembered the night before all this. Speaking on March 24, 2015, he explained how things were business as usual within the team. However, nothing prepared him for what was to come, and the 33-year-old was not happy about it. “I thought we had a relationship where he could have had this conversation with me.” However, he understood why Zayn Malik chose not to tell him, because “If he had told me, I would have tried to tell him to stay.”
Revealing the exact situation, he shared, “That evening, the night before we found out, everything was normal. We’re in the hotel room. And then he left around 11 o’clock, we called him, (he was) in a bad mood or something. The next morning, we had a photo shoot for a sponsor, and we found out he wasn’t coming.”
At first, the boys didn’t pay attention to it. “If he (Zayn Malik) didn’t want to do something, he literally wouldn’t do it. You name it, and if it’s not good for him, he won’t do it. And that’s probably why he left the group. And that’s what I admire about him.” Unlike him, Louis Tomlinson, older and different, would have tolerated him as a whole.
There’s a question that follows the star: “I want to know if he regrets it.” He added that Zayn Malik “must miss this.” He hopes to have an open conversation about coming out and their relationship, as well as how it might have gone.
“But it completely crushed me, I was absolutely devastated, because I felt like, ‘Oh, is this the beginning of the end of the band?’ But also because he’s your best friend in the band at the time, so I had lost a friend and someone in the band.
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