Zayn Malik has a nuanced outlook on his past relationship Gigi Hadid five years after their split.
The former One Direction member appeared on Wednesday’s episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, and in the interview, host Alex Cooper pressed him about his earlier claim of having never “truly been in love,” despite his high-profile romance with Hadid.
“My understanding of love is always developing,” he said. “You know, at that moment in time, I might have thought it was love, but as I got older, I realized maybe it wasn’t. Maybe it was lust. Maybe it was this, maybe it was that. I don’t feel like it was love.”
Malik and Hadid began dating in 2015 and quickly became one of young Hollywood’s most buzzed-about couples. Their daughter, Khai, was born in September 2020.
The pair went their separate ways in 2021. Around the same time, Malik pleaded no contest to four counts of harassment after getting into an altercation with Hadid’s mother, Yolanda, at the Pennsylvania home he and Hadid shared at the time.
