{"id":150097,"date":"2025-10-09T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=150097"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T21:45:00","slug":"louis-tomlinson-opens-up-about-one-directions-hiatus-and-zayn-maliks-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/louis-tomlinson-opens-up-about-one-directions-hiatus-and-zayn-maliks-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Tomlinson opens up about One Direction&#8217;s hiatus and Zayn Malik&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent interview, <strong>Louis Tomlinson<\/strong> opens up about <strong>One Direction<\/strong>&#8216;s hiatus and <strong>Zayn Malik<\/strong>&#8216;s departure, surprising all his fans with a new statement about the sad ending of this successful and beloved band.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Steven Bartlett in &#8216;<strong>The Diary of a CEO<\/strong>&#8216; podcast, the singer shared his thoughts around his member Zayn&#8217;s decision to leave the band:<em><strong> &#8220;I thought that we had a relationship where he could\u2019ve had that conversation with me. [\u2026] if he told me i would have tried to tell him to stay. [\u2026]&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;If he didn\u2019t wanna do something, he literally wouldn\u2019t do it. [\u2026] and that\u2019s what I admire about him. [\u2026] I wanna know if he regrets it. [\u2026] But it absolutely crushed me. I was absolutely devastated. It felt like, &#8216;Oh, is this the beginning of the end of the band?'&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>, said the singer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lylGyddTiGg\" title=\"Louis Tomlinson: When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew! &quot;The Room Was Cold That Day&quot;.\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lylGyddTiGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Louis Tomlinson continued talking about the mourning for the end of One Direction and the meeting that marked the end of the group, recalling, <em><strong>&#8220;It was an atmosphere that you never really felt in the band, because normally\u2026 it\u2019s all this camaraderie&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;I\u2019ve never quite felt an energy like that in the room. There was this emptiness. 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