"I’m so shocked at Zayn": Rebecca Ferguson hits back at her One Direction ex

Zayn Malik has upset ex girlfriend Rebecca by saying their relationship was a mistake, but still refuses to say what actually happened

Former X Factor contestants Rebecca and One Direction fittie Zayn Malik went out with each other for three months last year but have never really talked about the reasons they split.

However last week Zayn revealed he thought he’d made a mistake by dating the mum of two, who is seven years older than him.

He said: “It was a wrong idea from the start. It shouldn’t have happened. I think it was a wrong decision to make at such a young age.

"Then it did end badly so we don’t talk any more.”

It seems his decision to discuss their break up publicly hasn’t gone down too well with Rebecca though.

“I was so shocked by what he said!” she tells this week’s New! magazine. Although she’s not best pleased, she still refuses to hit back.

“I’m not going to retaliate. All I will say is that there have been a lot of things said and he knows so far that I’ve stayed classy and quiet and bitten my lip,” she goes on. [Quite the opposite actually]

“I’m not one to reveal big secrets about what’s gone on in a relationship, and I think he was probably put up to this. I know him too well to think he’d say it deliberately.” [#MANAGEMENT]

It certainly sounds as though something big went down between the two, but the tight-lipped Rebecca just won’t be budged. Damn it.

“I won’t talk about what went wrong between us but he knows what happened. And it is what it is. At this point in my career and at my stage of life, I won’t expose what went on there.”

It is perfectly natural to be exposing your teeth out of frustration at this point.

Rebecca, whose latest single Backtrack [of course] is about infidelity and is based on a true story (what?), isn’t bitter though and is pleased that Zayn is happy with new girlfriend Perrie Edwards.

“I haven’t [met her] but I am a fan of the Little Mix girls and she seems lovely. I think they’re good together.”

We wonder if that was said through gritted teeth….