Hollywood Gossip: Zayn on dumping 'Little Mix' Perrie Edwards by text

Zayn Malik says he will always love former fiancée Perrie Edwards and insists he didn't break her heart via text message in August.

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The 22-year-old star, who ended his engagement with the Little Mix singer in August, insists he didn't break her heart via text message.

He said: "I have more respect for Perrie than to end anything over text message. I love her a lot, and I always will, and I would never end our relationship over four years like that.

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"She knows that, I know that, and the public should know as well. I don't want to explain why or what I did, I just want the public to know I didn't do that."

Meanwhile, the former One Direction singer, who quit the boy band in March after five years, admits he wanted to leave from the start.

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He told the December/January issue of The FADER magazine: "I just wanted to go home from the beginning. I was always thinking it. I just didn't know when I was going to do it. It just felt right on that day. I woke up on that morning and was like, 'I need to go home. I just need to be me now, because I've had enough.'

"I was with my little cousin at the time -- we were sat in the hotel room -- and I just said, 'Should I go home?' And he was like, 'If you want to go home, let's go home.' So we left."

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Zayn, who is gearing up to release his debut solo album, isn't a fan of the band's music, but insists he isn't trying to bash his ex-bandmates Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson.

He said: "That's not music that I would listen to. Would you listen to One Direction, sat at a party with your girl? I wouldn't. To me, that's not an insult, that's me as a 22-year-old man.

"As much as I was in that band, and I loved everything that we did, that's not music that I would listen to. I don't think that's an offensive statement to make."

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