Thursday afternoon, TMZ scooped every media outlet: Yolanda Hadid, mother of Gigi, Bella and Anwar, is seriously considering pressing charges against Gigi Hadid’s boyfriend Zayn Malik. Gigi Hadid and Zayn have been together since late 2019, and she got pregnant soon after that reconciliation. They welcomed baby Khai in September 2020. Gigi and Zayn spent much of the past year and a half on Gigi’s farm in Pennsylvania, which is adjacent to her mother’s larger Pennsylvania spread, with horses and woodland animals and all of that. Gigi also has a place in New York, and she’s been back at work modeling since the summer. We haven’t heard much about the state of Gigi’s relationship with Zayn recently, and there were rumors in recent weeks that all was not well between Zayn and Gigi. More on that in a moment. Here’s TMZ’s report:
Yolanda Hadid claims Zayn Malik struck her last week and she’s seriously considering filing a police report, sources with direct knowledge tell us. Our sources say Yolanda says it happened at some point last week. We don’t have the details of what she claims triggered the alleged assault, but we’re told Yolanda stands by her account. She claims Zayn “struck” her.
Zayn just posted that he’s a private person and did not want this to become public, but, “in an effort to protect that space for [my daughter] I agreed to not contest claims arising from an argument I had with a family member of my partner’s who entered our home while my partner was away several weeks ago. This was and still should be a private matter but it seems for now there is divisiveness and despite my efforts to restore us to a peaceful family environment that will allow for me to co-parent my daughter in a manner in which she deserves, this has been ‘leaked’ to the press.”
Our sources say Yolanda’s inclination is to file a police report, but we checked and so far there’s nothing on file.
Zayn tells TMZ, “I adamantly deny striking Yolanda Hadid and for the sake of my daughter I decline to give any further details and I hope that Yolanda will reconsider her false allegations and move towards healing these family issues in private.”
Zayn gave that statement to TMZ after he posted the longer statement to his social media. The longer statement seems to indicate that he was at the home he shares with Gigi (I don’t know if that means New York or Pennsylvania) and Gigi was away, so he was alone with the baby? His version is that Yolanda entered their home and a verbal fight ensued, but that he didn’t strike her. I have no idea what “I agreed to not contest claims arising from an argument” means given that he does seem to be contesting those exact claims. And it’s all over Khai’s privacy? I don’t know, I really don’t. Holy sh-t though.
A few hours after Zayn’s statements and the TMZ report dropped, sources close to Gigi confirmed to People Magazine that Gigi and Zayn have broken up:
Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are going their separate ways. Multiple sources confirm exclusively to PEOPLE the supermodel, 26, and the singer, 28, have broken up.
“They are not together right now. They are both good parents though,” says a Hadid family friend. “They co-parent. Yolanda is of course very protective of Gigi. She wants the best for her daughter and grandchild.”
“Gigi is solely focused on the best for Khai. She asks for privacy during this time,” Gigi’s rep tells PEOPLE in a statement. Reps for Yolanda and Malik have not responded to multiple requests for comment.
I’m trying to read between the lines and it feels like Gigi is trying to say that she understands why Yolanda did what she did – which is what? – and that Zayn is a good parent but maybe not the best partner? Shambolic.
— zayn (@zaynmalik) October 28, 2021
Here are photos of Yolanda leaving Gigi’s apartment on Thursday, as the story was breaking.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.
Whoa! Shambolic is exactly the right word.
Without details there’s no way to take a side as to who was in the right or to justify anyone’s actions but my goodness, this is a primo MESS!
I know it’s her mom but those are serious allegations and if they weren’t true I think she would have publicly defended the father of her child. The fact that she broke up with him says everything to me.
Yes. Yolanda is certainly a piece of work but I don’t automatically think Zayn is blameless. This could be one of those “both things can be true” situations. I’ll wait to see what unfolds.
I agree with you.
I believe Yolanda is a controlling pain in the ass, living through her kids and grandkids being a stage mom.
… BUT I also think that Zayn has issues and wounds of his own.
Did anyone really think this relationship would go the distance?
Yeah, they were never gonna go the distance with all that break up and make up they had over the years. But this actually sounds like a pretty serious situation. Very messy. Feel for the kid.
This is all just so messy. I really do hope they can work it out in private though
I wonder why this all leaked now? The fact that the leak mentions Yolanda is still considering pressing charges so this feels like….a warning? I dunno. His fans are getting real ugly with their attacks and conspiracy theories though.
Yes, his fans aren’t happy, to put it mildly.
I’ll reserve judgment for now.
Leaked maybe in order to gain future advantages in custody decisions?
That is how Yolanda does things, she blackmailed both Mohammed and David Foster
I dont know based on some chatter on insta and twitter,it was suggested that Yolanda is one of those busy body over bearing mothers and she treats her daughters spaces like she can come and go as she pleases. Well maybe Z didnt like that and told her to leave and they got into a tussle,it has been been mentioned that they are co parenting and maybe on Zs time she is not wanted around.
At the moment, this sounds the most plausible to me.
Yolanda sounds like she is using Real Housewives tactics to get some attention and sympathy and insert herself into a story that never needed her in the first place. And that’s weird. What a coincidence, Gigi and Zayn have broken up and Yolanda is also a victim of an “abusive” Zayn.
Whatever is going on in their relationship, it’s pretty clear this wouldn’t be in TMZ w/o her.
I agree. It’s quite possible that @Noki’s theory is right, and leaking to TMZ is very much a Real Housewives tactic.
There’s no way we can know for sure, and I’d bet since Gigi wasn’t there, even she isn’t clear on this, but is very close to her mother and will stand by her. It currently really sounds like something which has been blown out of proportion though, and Zayn is right in that it should be kept out of the public eye. Family issues are hard enough, as it.
The real scuttlebutt, is that Zayn and Gigi protect their daughter’s anonymity fiercely, and that Yolanda took a picture of the child and sold it to an online open source agency, so the chid’s image could be found everywhere, unblurred. Gig asked one place to scrub it, which did, but Insta and Twitter didn’t suspend accounts posting it, because the image was obtained legally. Something like that. Zayn posted about the family needing privacy and his partner’s relative entering the home, THEN Yolanda came out with the, “He struck me!” mumbo jumbo. Then Zayn told TMZ, nuh-uh. And they’ve been broken up for five months already. So, yeah. Messy with a busybody parent on top.
Allegedly.
This isnt true. The photos out there were taken by paps not Yolanda. A while back Yolanda posted a photo from her home and in the background on a table or something was a framed photo of the baby. She deleted quickly. Seems like an honest mistake.
I’m not fan of Yolanda’s but this is an unfounded narrative that’s been debunked.
@Thanks, Digital Unicorn. I retract!
Apparently she leaked their private pregnancy and her and zayn haven’t been cool since than. Word on the street is that she leaked the new pictures of their daughter😕
I absolutely believe Yolanda’s serious stagemom issues have carried on into their private married life and she is probabvly one of those overbearing grandmas who shows up unannounced and has trouble with boundaries and viewing her adult daughter as an actual adult. but yah if he hit her, that’s a big problem. HOWEVER, Yolanda is a grade A embellisher and liar for attention (see: all my family and I have lyme disease) so i take it with a grain of salt.
People keep pushing the leaked photos narrative but there isn’t any evidence of that.
If Yolanda starts pimping Khai out as she did her daughters, then I will know what the argument is on. Zayn wants to protect his daughter. Yolanda wants to make her more public. There’s rumors she leaked Gigi’s pregnancy and leaked Khai’s baby pictures to the press.
Zayn needs to move on from this toxic family and he really need to get a very good lawyer for his daughter’s sake. I smell a set up and I fear Yolanda will use this incident to separate Zayn from his daughter. He shouldn’t agree to their demands until he gets a lawyer. I smell a set-up and a future fight over Khai.
Lots of rumors. Toxic family? I must have missed something. I don’t see the daughters being toxic. Mostly see they are hardworking and gets lots of press. I didn’t see the housewives show Yolanda was on but imo not a reliable source. Pimping the girls out? Is the son toxic?
Yolanda was horrible on Real Housewives.
Whether it is a good source – well you can see how she behaved in front of the cameras. Telling her then young daughter not to eat and not to play sports.
Or telling the people working for her “Speak English!” when they were speaking Spanish among them. You can see that with your own eyes….
IIRC Yolanda advised the man to learn to speak English if he wanted to be successful in the US then told him how hard she worked to learn English when she first came.
While I never thought Gigi and Zayn would stay together, I honestly did not see this coming. This is a he said-she said type of thing, but I’m inclined to agree with what Angel wrote above: Gigi is not denying what her mom said. What feels weird to me is that Zayn had 2 statements: the first, which focused on the privacy of his daughter, and the second where he denied having struck Yolanda. Yikes?! I kind of think that if he hadn’t done something, his first statement would have made that clearer to begin with? Also, Yolanda says this happened last week and he’s implying it was a lot longer ago. I hope Gigi wasn’t abused. This is a mess.
The first statement he clearly wrote, that’s why it is a mess and seems to focus mostly on the fact that it got leaked, not about what happened. The second statement is when his team and lawyers stepped in with a denial. He’s not a US citizen, he needs to let his lawyers handle this.
Ah, him writing the first bit and someone else the 2nd makes sense.
I’m an American living abroad, so I also get that he needs representation. I just get the feeling that he did get violent.
@Silver Charm,what does him being a US citizen have to do with anything ?
@Noki domestic violence is a charge that can get a non-US citizen deported. They do not take those things lightly.
I take it with a grain of salt. Ken on RHOBH touched her forearm (not grabbed or hit or anything) and she slapped it away and said he assaulted her. But since she’s specifically saying ‘struck’ there’s not a lot of wiggle room there. I feel for Gigi and Khai. Yolanda is a lot of work and Zayn has his own issues.
I was just about to mention the Ken incident as well. Yolanda can be dramatic, but who knows?
I guess if she files a police report it’ll shed light because that’s serious. And Yo is a lot of things but she’s not stupid enough to file a police report if absolutely nothing happened. Somehow I think she won’t though. I think, if something happened, she’ll use it for leverage. And if he did actually strike her I hope she files because there’s a small child around someone who is potentially violent.
Ah ha! That’s good intel
Yolanda is sketchy AF to me and always has been. She always seems desperate for attention and press…I’m not a Zayn fan or anything and this relationship was likely never going to make it. But I don’t trust a thing Yolanda says or her intentions.
Zayn doesn’t deny he hit her for starters. And neither does Gigi. If it didn’t happen or it was exaggerated, I think at least Zayn’s team would have cleared it up quickly.
Regardless of how annoying Yolanda is (and I believe she is judging by RHOBH) or what she did, that doesn’t justify or excuse Zayn’s violence. He could have verbally spoken to her about his issues and if he couldn’t handle it, ask Gigi to speak to her.
I realize a lot of people sympathize with Zayn here, and dislike Yolanda. I don’t really know anything about Gigi’s mom, but no matter how irritating she is, it’s scary to me that Zayn has this much sympathy. As Sofia said, no one seems to be denying Zayn getting violent. Yolanda did NOT deserve that. The fact that Gigi and Zayn have had an on-off relationship for years and Zayn’s reaction to this news is a major red flag. A lot of abusers can be charming. The fact that Yolanda might not be charming should not mitigate what Zayn did.
Very well put, ML!
THIS!!!
If someone enters your home without your permission and you tell them to leave and they don’t, you can physically remove them. I doubt he struck Yolanda mainly bc had he actually done that, she would have called the police and began the hysterics. She did this because I think Gigi is probably also putting up boundaries and keeping Yolanda on the outside. The Weeknd implied that Yolanda interferes and is meddlesome, so them being broken up for 5 months and seemingly peacefully co-parenting doesn’t support claims he’s violent. IMHO, he’s going for shred custody and wants to approve any publicity of images of his daughter. Yolanda does not like that and as all 3 of her children are adults and putting up boundaries, she is looking for a way to be more relevant.
Hitler actually never harmed or killed anyone himself, but still, many people were plotting to kill him for the wellbeing of others due to his well known manipulative actions.
I’m not saying Yolanda is Hitler, but sometimes people are just so awful the normal response is to physically fight back.
The woman was in his home while Gigi was away, with their baby there.
We honestly have no idea what happened but Yolanda should have left. I’d imagine she wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place.
Idk that people believe he gets a pass on being violent as much as the idea that you would come into someone’s home and think you have the right to be there, the right to be demanding, to establish anything just because it’s your grandchild?
I can well imagine a sitch where he just popped off and he’s absolutely wrong. But I can also imagine plenty where she escalated an argument, refused to leave, and was pushed/swatted at/shrugged off, whatever and here we are.
Well I can see some of the grandmother’s I know marching in like stormtroopers if their grandchild was in the care of someone doing something harmful, there have been rumours for years about Zayn being an addict, so yeah I can see how this could have gone down. People should use their words, not hands, to manage situations.
I’m tending to sympathize with Zayn until he is convicted. My in laws are toxic and I watched this scenario unfold in real life. My husband’s sister is terribly enmeshed with her parents. Her husband asked my father in law to leave their home one day when he was being particularly insufferable. He refused several times. So the husband took his arm and “escorted” him out of the house. It wasn’t an assault. They divorced shortly after and my sister in-law tried to claim that he hit her father. He did not. It never went to the police because there were several witnesses. If Zayn really hit her she should have went to the police not the press.
In the TMZ article, it says that Zayn adamantly denies that he hit her and he called it false allegations. The little I know about all involved is that Yolanda is not a lovely person nor a very good parent, but still it doesn’t mean that she is lying here. She should have filed charges to the police though rather than go to TMZ. It would give her claim more credibility. TMZ is also such a sketchy outlet.
I don’t know the situation but I know Mother in Laws with a new baby can be a nightmare. As a parent you’re trying to do the best for your child and when other people undermine that it can be insulting but also extremely maddening. I’m not trying to side with someone who hits another however I can see where things get tense quickly and Yolanda has always seemed far too involved in her daughters life and has always been a leaky faucet of information. Both of those things would irritate me immensely and I can see someone like that causing the demise of a relationship. I have had many friends breakup with people because of their mom.
Per twitter last night, Yolanda leaked the news about Gigi being pregnant and has posted pictures of the baby’s face, which Gigi and Zayn have both said they did not want out there. I don’t know what happened, but I think Yo is sketchy and am having a hard time believing Zayn hit her. Hopefully they can resolve this privately for the sake of the baby.
well if twitter says so
Didn’t say it was facts…just what’s being reported “wow”.
I think Yolanda is just the biggest drama starter. She seems totally the mother in law to just butt her nose into affairs that are none of her business. And if she leaked any of the above stuff mentioned then she’s a POS (I believe she did)
For what its worth there’s a court docket available out there where his plea is guilty to harassment (which, iirc, can cover striking or pushing in some states).
I think it’s weird that this whole story starts with “she’s considering filing a police report”. It reads to me like a threat. Do what we want, don’t argue about what really happened, and there won’t be any legal trouble.
I don’t find Gigi appearing to side with her mother and break up with Zayn terribly persuasive. It’s hard to cut off family, especially your own mother and if she’s never liked Zayn, it’s a poisoned well. Breaking up is probably the least dramatic way to maintain both relationships as best as possible, especially when Gigi and Zayn have never been solid.
This is awful. What I read between the lines is that Mom caught him either cheating or doing drugs in her daughter’s house while she was away and went ballistic. I side-eyed the bar fight he was in a few months ago. His statement all but confirms for me that he is guilty and is trying to put it back on her. Gaslighter language all the way. I don’t know anything about the Hadid girls nor do I watch any of the Housewives shows so my knowledge is limited. But mother and family drama happen everywhere and defy income lines. He is unstable and their relationship has also been unstable. It bothers me that he is being given all the latitude and benefit of the doubt when he has history of sketchy behavior. Sign of the times, I guess.
Is this also not the same Zayn that’s getting into fights outside of bars shirtless on the streets? Gigi left fashion week early to come home… It’s entirely plausible she asked her mom to check on the baby, especially considering Zayn’s issues with substance abuse.
Did this woman enter the home without being invited and without giving notice? Did he just stumble upon her in his daughter’s room?
Was the baby with Gigi or alone with Zayn? If they’re not together any longer, what was he doing in Gigi’s home, whichever one it was? Is Zayn absolutely sober or is he still using? What precipitated the break-up? Has Zayn been physical with Gigi?
I’m surprised by the negative comments about Yolanda. From what I saw on RH, she seemed like a good person with common sense (though Foster didn’t deserve her worship).
I believe her. I really don’t think she would fabricate something like this.
David Foster refused to speak about their divorce, except to say it wasn’t about her illness. Would be so interesting to hear his reaction to this sorry event.
Think he’s pretty busy with his tenth wife and 12th child. Or maybe not. Could be trying out the next young wife.
New post up saying Zayn has taken a plea. So that answers a lot. This story moved fast!
Whoa, this is messy. It’s very hard for to know “whose side” to be on because details are scant and Zayn adamantly denies he hit Yolanda and Yolanda leaked she was “considering pressing charges.” I’m not surprised that Gigi and Zayn broke up because they’ve been on and off several times. There clearly was an altercation of some kind but no way to know if it got physical at all. I just hope everyone is safe and that this can be brought to a resolution for the baby’s sake.
I don’t know what really happened but Yolanda is a real piece of work. I wouldn’t put anything past her.I’m not a fan of his either. He seems like he always has a problem. Very ugly situation for everyone involved. It seems like Yolanda is the one leaking everything.
There are very few if any possible justifications for a young man to get in a physical altercation with his older mother in law and I have not seen any listed here today. When your go to response to something is physical then you are the one with a problem. And he has a history of problems in that regard. Outside of the story being false, then we need to condemn his actions. I don’t really care if she is “interfering” or was seen as bitchy on a reality show. And if he’s ok with going after his mother in law, then how comfortable is he with going after his younger now ex partner.
She is looking for a money grab anyway, smdh.
There is a blind item that came out that said she is consistently telling him he needs to propose and they need another baby.
take it for what you will, he was wrong and should have stayed far away from any of them, if it was that bad.