Perrie Edwards on Zayn Malik's Relationship With Gigi Hadid: 'There Was a Bit of an Overlap'

Perrie Edwards just gave what is arguably her most candid interview to date, opening up about her past struggles with ex-fiancé Zayn Malik and former bandmate Jesy Nelson.

Related

Jesy Nelson Says ‘Life After Little Mix’ Series Finally Tells Her Side of Leaving Group After Endless ‘False Narrative’

Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards Welcomes Second Child With Fiancé Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Here's What Jack Schlossberg Had to Say About Madonna's Recent Revelations on JFK Jr. as a Lover: 'All I Can Say Is…'

On the Wednesday (June 10) episode of Great Company With Jamie Laing , the Little Mix singer first addressed the mentally draining experience of splitting from the One Direction alum back in 2015 after being engaged for two years. “When you go through heartbreak, it is hellish,” she began. “You feel abandoned, and you don’t feel good enough, and you feel like you’ve been left for something better.”

“And then what makes it even worse is I feel like the world was then looking at me laughing at me,” Edwards continued, noting she believes Malik’s experience with the breakup was probably less difficult. “When you’re moving on with somebody else, you always get on better. When you’re the one left behind, that’s when it’s hard. Because it’s like, ‘Oh s–t, they’ve left me for someone more beautiful. They’ve met someone better than me.'”

The British boy bander’s next relationship was with Gigi Hadid, with whom he’d have an on-off relationship for about six years years — and welcome daughter Khai in 2020 — before calling it quits for good in 2021. The model also starred alongside Malik in the music video for his Billboard Hot 100 -topping single “Pillowtalk.”

“Let’s just say there was a bit of a — I’m just gonna say it — there was a bit of an overlap,” Edwards said of Malik and Hadid. “Then you have a song that they’ve 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 … it was just the nail in the coffin.”

Billboard has reached out to Malik for comment.

As for where she stands with Nelson — who recently aired out her grievances with Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall in a new documentary and claimed that the group members didn’t support her through various mental health issues — Edwards said, “Sometimes you just don’t win with people.”

“What upsets me the most is when the other person doesn’t take any accountability,” she continued. “That boils my blood. I’m not blaming everything on you. I’m not saying she’s this f–king monster, and everything was her fault. But take some accountability for your actions and realize you were difficult. You did have difficult moments.”

She continued, “You can only pick somebody up so many f–king times before you lose track of your own sanity … I thought I’d tried anything. So to then sit there in further interviews and discuss it publicly and be like, ‘I wasn’t supported.’ You were, though.”

Edwards added that she’d previously hoped to rekindle a friendship with Nelson, but not anymore. “Part of me wanted to until the documentary, and then part of me withdrew again,” she added on the podcast. “I haven’t got a bad bone in my body, but I can cut you off. I can forgive, but I don’t want you in my space.”

Billboard has also reached out to Nelson’s reps for comment.

The documentary in question is titled Life After Little Mix , a six-part series that premiered on Prime Video in February. In addition to exploring Nelson’s difficult parenthood journey after becoming a mom to twin girls with spinal muscular atrophy in 2025, the doc includes the “Boyz” singer saying that she left Little Mix in December 2020 because she felt ignored and misunderstood by the other three members. Nelson also claimed that one of her bandmates had expressed wanting to leave the group before her.

After that, Edwards, Pinnock and Thirlwall continued group activities as a trio, releasing album Between Us in 2021. Edwards is now in the midst of a solo career, most recently releasing her single “Passenger Princess” in May.

Watch Edwards’ full interview on Great Company With Jamie Laing above.

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/perrie-edwards-zayn-malik-gigi-hadid-overlap-jesy-nelson-1236269644/)._