{"id":465012,"date":"2026-02-12T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/465012\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:34:12","slug":"zayn-malik-is-facing-intense-backlash-over-his-latest-comments-about-gigi-hadid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/465012\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayn Malik Is Facing Intense Backlash Over His Latest Comments About Gigi Hadid"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no doubt you remember when Zayn Malik<\/a> and Gigi Hadid<\/a> were a beloved celebrity couple. They were first linked in 2015, and they dated on and off for six years.\"I<\/p>\n

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In September 2020, Gigi and Zayn even welcomed a daughter together, Khai. However, the couple broke up soon after Khai\u2019s first birthday, following reports of a physical altercation between Zayn and Yolanda Hadid<\/a>, Gigi\u2019s mother.\"Two<\/p>\n

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Zayn denied the allegations and filed a \u201cno contest<\/a>\u201d plea to four counts of harassment, which meant that he wouldn\u2019t fight the charges in court.<\/p>\n

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Since their breakup<\/a>, Gigi and Zayn have seemingly remained on pretty good terms<\/a>. And now, appearing on the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy<\/a> podcast<\/a>, the former One Direction star reflected on his relationship with Gigi after host Alex Cooper<\/a> asked about his previous claim that he\u2019s never \u201ctruly been in love.\u201d\"Two<\/p>\n

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“At that moment in time, I might have thought it was love, but as I got older, I realized maybe it wasn\u2019t,” he told Alex, acknowledging that his understanding of love is “always developing.” “Maybe it was lust, maybe it was this, maybe it was that? I don\u2019t feel like it was love.”\"A<\/p>\n

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He continued: “Just to say this on record, I will always love G because she is the reason my child is on this earth, and I have the utmost respect for her. But I don\u2019t know if I was ever in love with her.”\"PersonAs we mentioned, this isn\u2019t the first time that Zayn has publicly confessed to this. In 2024, he said on the Zach Sang Show<\/a>: “I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve actually truly been in love at this point. You look back at it with new eyes, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Well, maybe I wasn\u2019t in love there.\u2019 Was it love or is it life experience that we are going through? Who knows.”\"Person<\/p>\n

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Zayn\u2019s Call Her Daddy<\/a> interview only dropped a day ago, and it hasn\u2019t taken long for his quotes about love to stir up some serious backlash. On X, there are posts with 100,000+ likes<\/a>, highlighting that it\u2019s in very poor taste to publicly say that you never deeply loved someone you dated for multiple years and share a child with.\"Tweet @stunninbrina \/ Via x.com<\/a>\"Tweet<\/p>\n

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In Zayn\u2019s defence, some people have argued that it isn\u2019t “uncommon<\/a>” to not truly understand romantic love until you\u2019re a bit older. However, others have pushed back, saying that it\u2019s not what Zayn said, but how, when, and where he said it that\u2019s the real issue \u2014 plus the risk that it may have hurt Gigi.\"Tweet @danishacarterr \/ Via x.com<\/a>So, what do you think of all this? LMK in the comments. In the meantime, here\u2019s where you can watch Zayn\u2019s full<\/a> Call Her Daddy<\/a> interview<\/a> for yourself.More on this<\/p>\n

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