{"id":625227,"date":"2026-10-09T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625227\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T09:46:08","slug":"harry-styles-says-ex-girlfriend-helped-him-overcome-fear-of-going-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625227\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles says ex-girlfriend helped him overcome fear of going out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen I\u2019d be home, it felt like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s not safe for me to be out\u2019. Then I had a girlfriend who was very outgoing and she was coming to London and I was like, \u2018Oh, if we just sit in my house for three days, she\u2019s gonna think I\u2019m nuts\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo we walked everywhere, and it was this realisation for me: \u2018Oh, it\u2019s fine to be outside\u2019. It kind of broke that thing. Now, it\u2019s changed my life in such a big way, because it\u2019s how you stay connected to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">He added: \u201cI read something about walking being the artist\u2019s kind of perspective, because you\u2019re at ground level and you see things that you just don\u2019t see if you\u2019re driving everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Yorke applauded Styles\u2019 decision not to hole himself up in a mansion surrounded by security guards, saying: \u201cThere are moments when you will feel vulnerable&#8230; I\u2019ve had that. So it\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy decision to make, but it\u2019s better than the alternative. I know people who got death threats and then wouldn\u2019t leave the house and had security patrolling their house. You don\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen I\u2019d be home, it felt like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s not safe for me to be out\u2019. Then I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,3404,682,145612,156,253992,2893,22220,9859,9832,30538,16718,111,139,69,1118,3111,32956,37252,3109,312,18923,303,102],"class_list":["post-625227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-anxiety","tag-being","tag-credited","tag-entertainment","tag-exgirlfriend","tag-fear","tag-going","tag-harry","tag-helped","tag-helping","tag-him","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-out","tag-outgoing","tag-overcome","tag-public","tag-says","tag-styles","tag-very","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}