Zayn Malik's Former Fiancée Says There Was Overlap With Gigi Hadid Relationship

A decade after the breakup that shattered her, former Little Mix member Perrie Edwards is confirming that her famous ex overlapped with his relationship with supermodel Gigi Hadid. "I remember finding out about it, and that was just the final nail in the coffin," she said.

Zayn Malik's love life has often made headlines, sometimes more than his music career. This time, it's a reminder of his past relationship with Little Mix star Perrie Edwards.

Malik and Edwards, both 32, were a pop power couple. They met on The X Factor in 2011, dated for nearly four years and even got engaged. But in the summer of 2015, Zayn called off the engagement and left Perrie "broken, depressed and unable to function," with people close to them even claiming he ended it by text message. A few months later, he had already moved on to supermodel Gigi Hadid.

Now, nearly a decade later, Edwards appeared on the Great Company podcast and decided it was time to air all the dirty laundry. "When you're going through heartbreak, it's just hell," she shared. "You feel abandoned, and you feel like you're not good enough, and you feel like you've been left for something better... When you move on with someone else, you always end up better off. When you're the one left behind, that's where it's hard. Because it's like, 'Oh shit, they left me for someone prettier.'"

The host asked Perrie about the exact timeline of her breakup and the start of Zayn's romance with Gigi, and Perrie confirmed what fans had suspected for years: "Let's just say there was a bit of.. I'll just say it, yes, there was a bit of overlap."

If that were not painful enough, Perrie also described the final straw, the moment she saw Gigi starring alongside Zayn in the steamy video for Pillowtalk, a song that was reportedly written about Perrie herself shortly before the breakup. "You have a song written about you, but then someone else is in the video. It was one thing after another. I remember finding out about it, and that was just the final nail in the coffin," Edwards recalled about the public humiliation.

It should be noted that as far back as 2016, reports said Gigi had grown tired of Perrie "trash-talking" Zayn in revenge songs, and that she advised her to "grow up and get over it."

Since then, Zayn and Gigi's relationship, which produced their daughter Khai in 2020, went through countless breakups, rumors that Zayn had been cheating with a reality TV star, and ended bitterly in 2021 after an alleged physical altercation between Zayn and Gigi's mother, Yolanda Hadid.

And if that were not enough, in an interview on a podcast in February, Malik admitted that he "was never in love with Gigi."

But don't think Perrie ended her revenge tour there on the podcast. Right after burying her legendary ex, she turned her fire on someone who was once her BFF, her former Little Mix bandmate Jesy Nelson. Nelson left the group in 2020, and since then has complained in interviews that she did not receive support from the other girls.

"What annoys me most is when the other person takes no responsibility at all. It boils my blood," Edwards fired off on the same podcast. "I'm not saying she's some fucking monster... but take some responsibility for your actions and understand that you were problematic. You can't build someone up so many fucking times before you lose your own mind."

To close the story once and for all, Perrie revealed that she had actually wanted to mend the relationship, but Jesy's documentary was too much for her. She ended the interview with a line that cuts off any chance of a comeback by the original group: "I can cut you off, I can forgive you, but I don't want you in my space."