Harry Styles has said One Direction were encouraged to "give a lot of themselves away", revealing that life in the spotlight often felt very lonely.
Styles shot to fame at just 16 as a member of The X Factor-formed band alongside Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne, who died in 2024.
After Zayn Malik departed the group in 2015, the members of One Direction shifted their focus to individual music projects, with the band later announcing a hiatus in 2016.
Speaking on the Q with Tom Power podcast, Styles said: "I think generally my experience of kind of being like in the public domain is that obviously you learn a lot about kind of what you're comfortable with and what you’re not comfortable with."
"And I think when I started in the band, we were kind of encouraged to like give a lot of ourselves away, you know, to kind of like let people get to know you."
He continued: "And I think that finishing that, and then when I started working on my own stuff, I felt like there were parts of that where I was kind of just learning what I was comfortable with and trying to like have kind of parts of my like personal life be more private."
Styles' fourth studio album, Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally, was released on Friday after he performed the lead single Aperture at last weekend's BRIT Awards.
His One Night Only show at Co-Op Live has been launched on Netflix as Harry Styles: One Night In Manchester.
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