Zayn Malik has been hospitalised due to a mystery health scare, cancelling fan events for his new album, Konnakol. Photo / Getty Images
Zayn Malik has been hospitalised due to a mystery health scare, cancelling fan events for his new album, Konnakol. Photo / Getty Images
Zayn Malik has been hospitalised after suffering a mystery health scare.
The 33-year-old former One Direction star has revealed he’s currently recovering from an unspecified illness, meaning he’s been forced to cancel some fan events linked to the release of his new album, Konnakol.
Alongside a photo of himself sittingin a hospital bed, Zayn wrote on Instagram: “To my fans – thank you to all of you for your love and support now and always – been a long week and am still unexpectedly recovering.
“Heartbroken that I can’t see you all this week, I wouldn’t be in the place I am today without you guys and am so thankful for your understanding.
“Thank you to the incredible hospital staff of Drs, nurses, cardiologist, management, admin and everyone who has helped along the way and continue to. You are all legends! Big big love xx z. [sic]”
Malik - who was due to attend an album playback session – hasn’t shared any further details about his health issues.
He expressed gratitude to fans and hospital staff via Instagram, thanking them for their support. Photo / Instagram
The singer released his latest album on Friday and he previously opened up about his creative process, explaining that his record features “South Asian influences”.
He told ELLE India magazine: “I got into the studio, booked in for 14 days … the process was trying to create this vision I had in my mind that didn’t exist anywhere else.
“There was no point of reference I could pull from or say, ‘I want it to be like this’. Even though I was drawing from Konnakol in terms of the technique and bringing in South Asian influences, it was still something I’m proposing to a Western market, and I wanted it to still be R’n’B but have that flavour.
“I just had to freestyle a bit on the mic and see what came out naturally and build from there. We started with a click, didn’t even have a drum, which gave us the starting point, and built the track around the ad-libs and Konnakol influences, and then wrote over the track in English.”
