Zayn Malik is reportedly officially done with One Direction. According to Hollywood Life, the British singer is now consulting with his legal team so he could get out of his contract as part of the internationally famous boy band.
Malik, 22, may have had enough of all the drama and “stress” he received ever since he became famous together with the rest of 1D, namely, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, and Niall Horan.
Malik suddenly decided to take some time off from the tour, opting to step out of the Philippine and Indonesian leg of their “On the Road Again” tour. This is very bad news for loyal One Direction fans who expected the singer to return to the tour on March 28. If what the rumor mill says is true, then he just might decide not to return at all.
It would appear that Malik is now in talks with his lawyers in an effort to determine whether he can pull out of his commitments to the band.
“At the moment, he is convinced he wants out,” a source told The Daily Star. “He is finding it all too much and wants to quit the group.”
Rumors that he cheated on his fiancée, Little Mix member Perrie Edwards, surfaced on the Internet, pushing Malik to his limits. Photographs of the 1D member holding hands with a mystery blonde in Thailand made this issue much worse, as pointed out by ITV News.
One Directioners managed to identify the woman, who may or may not have been responsible for an alleged Malik-Edwards breakup. Consequently, the rumored split allegedly gave Malik a lot of “stress” when the fan posted a photo of herself with the singer on Instagram.
Now, his younger sister, Waliyha, 16, is worried about her brother, according to Huffington Post. She took to Instagram to encourage 1D fans to pray for her brother and informed everyone that the “hatred” he has been receiving online is “really hurting him.”
“Some people are just giving him too much,” Waliyha wrote. “Don’t worry, guys. Zayn is going to be okay very soon. All the stress has just gotten to him because of the rumors and hatred he has heard and received.”
“People need to realize that my brother is human, too,” she added. “Stop hating him because he hasn’t done anything to anybody, except for defending himself because of what people hear of what he did. But, it isn’t true.”
