Former One Direction star Zayn Malik wouldn't sign up to One Direction if he had the chance to go back in time.
The 23-year-old singer rose to fame on The X Factor when he was 17 years old and admits he never considered the complications which come with fame.
“I would say (to my younger self), ‘Do your research and be a bit more prepared about certain situations before you make a decision,'" he told Britain's ES magazine. “But I probably wouldn’t have (signed up) - I would’ve waited a couple more extra years.
Just so I had that time to just get my head around being a famous person. I’ve never been able to have, what’s the word? Anonymity. If I could go back, I’d have a few more years of anonymity.
Malik, who left the group in 2015, is currently promoting his memoir titled Zayn, in which he has come clean about his departure from the band, his eating disorder during the height of their fame and his battle with anxiety over live performances.
Since he went solo, he has moved to Los Angeles and in the memoir he revealed he has already been booted out of two rentals because of noise complaints.
"We started out in a futuristic modern house in the Hollywood Hills, but got kicked out after multiple noise complaints," he wrote. Then we moved to an even bigger house in Malibu where we had a massive BBQ party. That was my first party in LA and we got kicked out of the house when that party got a little rowdy, so we moved again."
In his memoir Malik spoke about his childhood revealing he was ''pretty wild'' and struggled to concentrate when he was younger, and it was only years later he was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
''[Growing up] I was pretty wild. I could never focus, couldn't get a handle on where my brain wanted to go. I was constantly getting in trouble.
''Once, when I was at Tong High School, I was collared for a BB gun in class. It wasn't loaded or anything, but me waving it around didn't go down too well.
"I was later diagnosed by doctors as having super-hyperactivity--or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) as they like to label it.''
