""At that moment in time, I might have thought it was love, but as I got older, I realized maybe it wasn't," 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't feel like it was love." 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't know if I was ever in love with her.""
""I don't know if I've actually truly been in love at this point. You look back at it with new eyes, and you're like, 'Well, maybe I wasn't in love there.' Was it love or is it life experience that we are going through? Who knows.""
"Zayn's Call Her Daddy interview only dropped a day ago, and it hasn't taken long for his quotes about love to stir up some serious backlash. On X, there are posts with 100,000+ likes, highlighting that it's in very poor taste to publicly say that you never deeply loved someone you dated for multiple years and share a child with."
Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid dated on and off from 2015 through roughly 2021 and welcomed a daughter, Khai, in September 2020. The couple split after Khai's first birthday amid reports of a physical altercation between Zayn and Gigi's mother, Yolanda Hadid. Zayn has said he no longer believes he was ever truly in love with Gigi, calling earlier feelings possibly lust or life experience, while affirming enduring love for their daughter and respect for Gigi. Past remarks echoed similar doubts about having truly been in love. The comments generated swift public backlash on social platforms.
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