One Direction's Zayn Malik has been
rocked by a cheating scandal. In the
issue dated January 27, 2013, The Sun
published an exclusive interview
with 21-year-old Australian waitress
Courtney "CJ" Webb, who says that
she had a one-night stand with Malik
while he has been dating Perrie
Edwards of Little Mix. Malik, 20, and
Edwards, 19, went public with their
romance in April 2012.
Webb says that she had sex with
Malik at his London home on January
23, 2013, while Edwards was away on
Little Mix's U.K. tour, which launched
on January 24, 2013. Malik allegedly
told Webb that he didn't have a
girlfriend, but Webb says that she
realized that he lied to her after they
had sex and she saw some of
Edwards' belongings in Malik's home.
Webb vented to The Sun about what
she says is Malik's deliberate
dishonesty to her and Edwards: "He's
an absolute s**t. How dare he — not
only to me but to Perrie?"
Malik, Edwards and their
representatives have not
commented on Webb's allegations.
The Daily Mail paraphrased Webb's
interview by reporting:
"She then added that she
believed Zayn has strayed on
more than one occasion. She
insists she was unaware who he
was or that he had a girlfriend,
revealing that after a few hours
he asked his friend to make
sure she stayed. As soon as they
were alone together CJ then
claims the X Factor star pounced
on before they enjoyed
intercourse. Although things
went awry when Malik
allegedly asked her to leave
and tried calling her a taxi
straight after.
"But they soon fell asleep,
which is when she took a photo
of him and his recognizable
tattoos lying in the bed. She
also claims she then realized he
may have a girlfriend after
seeing a number of Perrie's
belongings dotted around his
room, including fake eyelashes
and make-up. But he allegedly
told her: 'Don't worry about her
she's on tour.'"
Webb says that she met Malik
through Leon Anderson, who invited
her and two friends to a small party
at Malik's house. She told The Sun:
"I'm not a One Direction fan. I don't
follow what they are up to. So when
it clicked that he had a girlfriend, I
got more and more angry. I
definitely don't think it's the first
time he's done this. I feel sorry for
Perrie. She doesn't know this is
going on. It's wrong and it has to
stop."
Webb also described Malik's house in
great detail: "It was amazing. When
you came into the reception there's
a big cylinder with a spiral staircase.
He had remote control cars and
skateboards floating around the
house to play with. There was a 'Star
Wars' mask that one of the girls tried
on and there was a life-size Kung Fu
Panda under his stairs. It was a fun
house."
She continued: "He was a really nice
guy. We were talking about music
and playing songs on his iPad. He
even gave me a maroon jumper
when I was cold. He was drinking
vodka and we were having a laugh. I
asked him if he had a girlfriend, and
he said he didn't. He said he wanted
to enjoy being 20. Zayn made me
feel special... but after sex he just
said 'Put your clothes on, I'll get you
a taxi.'"
This isn't the first time that Malik has
been accused of being unfaithful to
Edwards. In 2012, gossip blogger
Perez Hilton spread rumors that
Malik cheated on Edwards. Malik
adamantly denied those rumors. In
one of the videos posted on Hilton's
website, Malik was secretly recorded
through a hotel room peephole, and
he (or someone who sounds like
him) is heard telling a young woman
to come back to his hotel room. It
was never verified when the video
was recorded, so it was possible that
it happened when Malik was
unattached and before he began
dating Edwards.
Malik and Edwards often talk to the
media about their relationship. In an
October 2012 interview with Now
magazine
, Malik commented on how he and
Edwards deal with groupies and fans
who want to date him: "I guess
there's a sense of jealousy because I
have a girlfriend now while I was a
bit of a 'bad boy' before."
The interviewer asked, "So the fans
know you're off-limits now? "
Malik replied, "Exactly. Some of them
don't like it."
He also said that because he and
Edwards have very busy careers, they
came to an agreement when they
first began dating about how to
make their relationship work: "When
I'm away at work, she understands
because it's the business. Our jobs
are full-on every single hour of the
day. She gets that because she has to
do exactly the same thing. We have a
lot of trust and understanding
between us. I think that's why our
relationship works ...
"We had an understanding from the
start. I told her: 'This is my job, this is
what's going to happen, stories will
come out. Do you still want to be
with me?' That was established from
the start and after that it was about
me and her."
In an August 2012 interview with The
Sun, Edwards commented on how
she and Malik handle their
relationship: "You have to trust each
other. Me and Zayn are really happy.
We see each other quite a lot, the
only time we don't is when he's in
America. It's really hard. But I trust
him. It does get hard when you don't
see each other. It does make it more
special when you do see each other
though.
"You just have to make sure you call
and text each other all the time and
tell each other what you've done
each day and stuff. It's when you
don't talk to someone that you start
missing them. As far as his fans go,
there's always going to be one or
two bad comments, but you've just
got to ignore it. About one in 100 are
bad ones. I just read all the good
ones — most people are really
happy that we're in a relationship
and happy."
Infidelity may have been an issue
that Malik had in his romantic
relationship with singer Rebecca
Ferguson, a 25-year-old single
mother of two children. Malik and
Ferguson dated from March to July
2011. The former couple reportedly
had a bitter breakup, and they have
said in interviews that they are
longer in contact with each other.
Malik, Ferguson and Edwards are all
former "X Factor" U.K. contestants
who are signed to Syco Music, the
record company co-owned by "The X
Factor" executive producer Simon
Cowell and Sony Music. In 2010,
Ferguson came in second place, and
One Direction came in third place on
the show. In 2011, Little Mix became
the first group to win on "The X
Factor" U.K.
When Ferguson and Malik were
dating in 2011, she told the now-
defunct tabloid News of the World
that Malik pursued her for months
before they got together, that they
were "in love," and that they began
dating shortly after they completed
"The X Factor" U.K. tour that year
.
In more recent interviews, Ferguson
has hinted that Malik cheated on her
when they were a couple. She told
the Daily Mirror that she is taking a
break from dating because she is
tired of all of her boyfriends being
unfaithful to her
. Ferguson's 2012 single "Backtrack" is
about a cheating lover, and she said
she wrote the song based on a real-
life boyfriend she had. Ferguson told
New! magazine that she will never
publicly disclose the reasons why
she and Malik broke up because she
has "stayed classy" about it
.
In interviews, Malik has not
commented on rumors that he and
Ferguson broke up because he
cheated on her. He told Now
magazine that his relationship with
Ferguson was a "mistake" and a
"weird situation" and that it ended
"badly."
