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

A decade after the breakup that left her devastated, Little Mix alum Perrie Edwards says former fiancé Zayn Malik 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.

Malik, 33, and Edwards, 32, were one of pop's power couples. They met on The X Factor in 2011, dated for nearly four years and were even engaged. But in the summer of 2015, Zayn called off the engagement and left Perrie "devastated, depressed and unable to function," with people close to them even claiming he ended things with a text message. A few months later, he had already moved on to supermodel Gigi Hadid.

Now, almost 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're always 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 little, I am just going to say it, yes, there was a little overlap."

If that was not painful enough, Perrie described the final straw, the moment she saw Gigi starring alongside Zayn in the steamy music video for Pillowtalk, a song reportedly written about Perrie herself shortly before the breakup. "You have a song written about you, and 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 of the public humiliation.

It should be noted that as early as 2016, reports said Gigi was tired of Perrie "badmouthing" Zayn in revenge songs, and had 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 and rumors that Zayn had carried on an affair with a reality TV star, and ended acrimoniously in 2021 after an alleged physical and violent confrontation between Zayn and Gigi's mother, Yolanda Hadid. And if that was not enough of a jab, in a February interview on the podcast, Malik admitted that he had "never been in love with Gigi."

But do not think Perrie ended her revenge tour there on the podcast. Right after burying her mythical ex, she turned the fire on someone who used to be her BFF, her former Little Mix bandmate Jesy Nelson. Nelson left the band 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. 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 lift 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 reconnect, but Jesy's documentary was too much for her. She ended the interview with a line that leaves no chance of a comeback for the original lineup: "I can cut you off, I can forgive you, but I don't want you in my space."