Zayn Malik was not speaking to One Direction bandmates when they split, says ex-lover Abi Clarke

thesun.co.uk:

ZAYN Malik left One Direction because he felt like a “robot”, former lover Abi Clarke told a pal. The popstar, 29, told Abi how he was not even speaking with his bandmates by the time they split.

Abi told a friend: “He told me about the falling out. “He said he was being made to do things that he didn’t want to do. He said, ‘I’m not a robot’. “They wanted him to go down a path he didn’t want to.

It led to a fall out.” Zayn, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, were put together on The X Factor after individual auditions.

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