{"id":487352,"date":"2026-06-11T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487352\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:11:12","slug":"perrie-edwards-spills-bulk-tea-about-jesy-nelson-zayn-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/487352\/","title":{"rendered":"Perrie Edwards Spills Bulk Tea About Jesy Nelson & Zayn Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perrie Edwards has opened up about her frustrations with both her ex-fianc\u00e9<\/a> Zayn Malik and former Little Mix bandmate<\/a> Jesy Nelson in what fans have described as her most candid interview to date.\n<\/p>\n

Appearing on the podcast Great Company With Jamie Laing<\/a>, Perrie first addressed her split from the One Direction star<\/a> in 2015 and suggested there was \u201coverlap\u201d with his relationship with Gigi Hadid.<\/p>\n

You see, Perrie and Zayn met on The X Factor UK in 2011 (the same year Little Mix made history as the first group to win the competition) and became engaged two years later. They then announced their split in August 2015, and Zayn released his debut solo single \u201cPillowtalk\u201d in January 2016 \u2014 which was written about Perrie, but starred his then-girlfriend Gigi Hadid<\/a> in the music video.<\/p>\n

\"ZaynPerrie Edwards and Zayn Malik dated from 2011 to 2015 before he moved on with Gigi Hadid. (Credit: X \/ Getty)<\/p>\n

Perrie Edwards alleges \u2018overlap\u2019 in Zayn Malik relationship<\/p>\n

During her tell-all interview, Perrie described their breakup as \u201chellish\u201d and said she felt like \u201cthe world was looking at [her] and laughing at [her]\u201d because Zayn had another girlfriend so soon after they ended things.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re moving on with somebody else, you always get on better. When you\u2019re the one left behind, that\u2019s when it\u2019s hard. Because it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh s**t, they\u2019ve left me for someone more beautiful. They\u2019ve met someone better than me\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She went on to allege that there was a crossover between their relationship and his romance with Gigi, who he dated on-and-off for six years and welcomed a daughter with in 2020<\/a> before breaking up for good in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just say there was a bit of a \u2014 I\u2019m just gonna say it \u201a there was a bit of an overlap,\u201d Perrie said about Zayn and Gigi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen you have a song that they\u2019ve written about you, but then someone else is in the video. It was one thing after the other after the other. I remember finding out about that \u2026 it was just the nail in the coffin.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for her current relationship, Perrie has been engaged to English footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain since 2022 and welcomed their second child together, a baby girl, earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\"GigiGigi Hadid starred in Zayn\u2019s music video for \u201cPillowtalk\u201d. (Credit: YouTube)<\/p>\n

Perrie says she doesn\u2019t want to rekindle her friendship with Jesy Nelson<\/p>\n

Perrie also gave a shoutout to her ex-bandmate Jesy Nelson in the interview and admitted she has no plans of patching things up after their fallout.<\/p>\n

Jesy, who left Little Mix in 2020<\/a>, claimed in her recent docuseries Life After Little Mix that she felt ignored and misunderstood by the other three members of the group, and they didn\u2019t support her through her mental health struggles.\u00a0The docuseries also explored Jesy\u2019s parenthood journey after becoming a mum to twin girls with spinal muscular atrophy<\/a> in 2025, and she announced that she would be stepping away from the music industry to focus on her mental health and family.<\/p>\n

Perrie told Jamie Laing that she had hoped to rekindle her friendship with Jesy before the release of the docuseries in February, but she\u2019s since changed her mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of me wanted to until the documentary, and then part of me withdrew again,\u201d she said. \u201cI haven\u2019t got a bad bone in my body, but I can cut you off. I can forgive, but I don\u2019t want you in my space.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LittleJesy Nelson left Little Mix in 2020. (Credit: Getty)<\/p>\n

Perrie, who released a song on her debut album about their estrangement called \u201cSame Place Different View\u201d<\/a>, also called out Jesy for not taking \u201cany accountability\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat boils my blood,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m not blaming everything on you. I\u2019m not saying she\u2019s this f**king monster and everything was her fault, but take some accountability for your actions and realise you were difficult. You did have difficult moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cYou can only pick somebody up so many f**king times before you lose track of your own sanity. I thought I\u2019d tried anything. So to then sit there in further interviews and discuss it publicly and be like, \u2018I wasn\u2019t supported\u2019. You were, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perrie, Jade Thirwall and Leigh-Anne Pinnock continued Little Mix as a trio following Jesy\u2019s exit, releasing their greatest hits album Between Us in 2021 and embarking on the Confetti Tour in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group officially entered their hiatus once the tour wrapped and are each enjoying successful solo careers<\/a>, with Jade making history as the first former girl band member to win a solo Brit Award last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perrie Edwards has opened up about her frustrations with both her ex-fianc\u00e9 Zayn Malik and former Little Mix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,16900,409,44525,48129],"class_list":["post-487352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-little-mix","tag-music","tag-one-direction","tag-zayn-malik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}