Liam Payne Reveals He Checked Into Facility for 100 Days Following Backlash After One Direction Comments

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Liam Payne is heading in a new direction!In a new YouTube video posted on Sunday, the former One Direction singer revealed that he is making his return following some time away from the public eye — and offline. «I just needed to take some time out for myself,» he shared. «Actually because I kinda became somebody that I didn't  recognize anymore and I'm sure you actually didn't either.»Payne, 29, shared that his time away came after his interview on Logan Paul's podcast in 2022, where he made some comments about his time in One Direction and more specifically about ex-bandmate Zayn Malik, which triggered backlash online.«I'm not going to let anybody else take the blame for the stuff I said,» Payne told the camera. «I know there was a lot of hate online.

I think for me a lot of what I said just came from the wrong place. I was so angry at what was going on around me and instead of taking a look inwards, I was looking outwards at everybody else and I just took it out on everybody else and it was just wrong, really, and my own frustrations with my own career and where I kinda landed.» At the time of the interview, Payne noted many things that he «disliked» about Malik following his public split with Gigi Hadid.

The same week, Payne walked back the comments. Payne, Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson were in the successful group, which went on an indefinite hiatus in 2015.

In his latest video, the «Strip That Down» singer further apologized.  «Obviously, I wanted to apologize about that,» he said. «That wasn't about me.