Zayn Malik is "exhausted and sick of fame".
The One Direction singer has been the focus of much attention over the last week, having missed some of the band’s promotional duties for their new album ‘Four’, which prompted claims of drug abuse.
An insider has claimed the 21-year-old star is bored of such stories, reflecting: "Zayn’s exhausted and sick of fame. And awful situations like this one – when he’s accused of being a drug addict – are exactly why he’s had enough.
"Zayn gets overwhelmed and has always found fame really hard to deal with. It hits him more at certain times than others and it’s bad right now. He gets so homesick. His family are so close and he hates that he never gets to see them."
Zayn proposed to his Little Mix girlfriend Perrie Edwards, 21, last year, but that has apparently done nothing to make him feel more at ease with fame.
The source told Heat magazine: "Zayn feels like he’s given so much of his life to the band and is cut off from everything.
"I think he thought proposing to Perrie would mean an escape – that they could move to the country and have pets and be normal. But things haven’t panned out like that yet."
Zayn Malik is ‘sick of fame’
