Zayn Malik addressed his relationship with his former One Direction bandmates in a new interview and while he said they’re not fighting with one another, it doesn’t appear they’re getting along either.
Since leaving One Direction, Malik got into a Twitter fight with his former band member Louis Tomlinson, and the solo artist also didn’t have the nicest things to say about the band in a Billboard interview from November.
He’s now telling Billboard they’re not at war with each other.
"There are no sides to pick," he said. "We're not going head-to-head."
He added he “had every intention” of keeping in touch with Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Liam Payne but said "certain people have pride issues.”
"The truth of it is, you can think one thing about a situation and the total opposite can happen," he explained. "I had every intention of remaining friends with everybody, but I guess certain phone numbers have changed and I haven't received calls from a lot of people."
“I've reached out to a few of them and not got a reply,” he added.