Liam Payne has been accused of obsessively contacting his former fiancée, contacting her friends and playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media.
The singer’s stop-start three-year relationship with Texan model Maya Henry came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple called off their engagement.
Payne, 31, has since moved on with new girlfriend Kate Cassidy, while Henry continues to promote her debut novel Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance about a girl who falls in love with a pop star.
Sharing a withering assessment of Payne, 31, with TikTok followers on Monday, Henry, 23 – the daughter of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry – claimed he has gone to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to contact her.
‘Ever since we broke up he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,’ she said.
Liam Payne has been accused of obsessively contacting his former fiancée, contacting her friends and playing on the loyalty of die-hard One Direction fans across social media
The singer’s stop-start three-year relationship with Texan model Maya Henry came to an end in 2022, almost a year after the former couple had called off their engagement (pictured in October 2021)
‘He’ll create new iCloud accounts to message me – it’s always a new damn iCloud account. Every time I see one pop up on my phone I’m like, “here we f***ing go again”.
She added: ‘Also, he will email me… not only me, but he’ll blow up my mom’s phone. Is this normal behaviour to you?’
Payne made his first public appearance with Henry in 2019.
The couple were subsequently forced to isolate together during the global pandemic, and Payne later insisted the experience had helped strengthen their relationship.
He told People: ‘I think we went through a lot in COVID. I feel like we’ve come out the other side of it a bit stronger.
‘Most couples who have been married for years struggled, right? So, I mean, we’re still really happy to be here together today.’
But Henry poured scorn on any suggestion of closeness by claiming he was contacting her friends while they were still together – without her prior knowledge – and has maintained the habit since their separation.
‘Ever since we broke up he messages me, will blow up my phone, not only from his phone, it’s always from different phone numbers too, so I never know where it’s gonna come from,’ she said
Payne made his first public appearance with Henry in 2019, with the couple subsequently isolating together in her native Texas as COVID-19 forced the world into lockdown
She added: ‘He’s the one that is constantly doing weird sh*t, and also might I add, he literally said the reason he has all these people on his damn Snapchat, which he has had for years apparently, and messages, is he preys on One Direction fans because they’re loyal to him.’
The model also accused Payne’s fan-base – the singer commands 26.1 million followers on Instagram alone – of being blinded by their loyalty to the singer and their love for his former band, One Direction.
She said: ‘When you constantly enable someone they’re never gonna realise what they’ve done is bad, or they do realise and they know they can get away with it, which is what has happened with him for so many years.
‘Everything gets swept under the rug, everything gets hidden for him. I don’t know who the hell’s behind all of this but nothing ever comes out about him.’
She added: ‘It’s hard when you have these people jumping down your throat for speaking the truth on things that have happened, and quite frankly disgusting things that have happened and disgusting things that he’s done’.
Addressing followers on Monday, Maya claimed she later discovered he had been contacting her friends while they were still together – without her prior knowledge
MailOnline exclusively broke the news of their engagement in August 2020. The pair were first linked back in August 2018 shortly after Liam split from Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole
Maya was seen sporting her dazzling diamond ring, worth £3 million
Speaking in 2021, shortly after confirming their engagement was over, Payne admitted he was at fault during an interview with Stephen Bartlett’s Diary Of A CEO podcast.
‘I feel like more than anything at this point, I’m more disappointed in myself that I keep on hurting people,’ he said.
‘That annoys me. I’ve just not been very good at relationships. And I know what my pattern of things is with relationships at this point.
‘I’m just not very good at them so I just need to work on myself before I put myself on to somebody else.’
He added: ‘That’s where I got to in my last relationship. I just wasn’t giving a very good version of me anymore, that I didn’t appreciate and I didn’t like being. I can honestly say I feel better out of it.
‘I didn’t feel good doing what I did but it had to happen. Just a corny way to say it was the best for us both.’
MailOnline exclusively broke the news of their engagement in August 2020.
The pair were first linked back in August 2018 shortly after Liam split from Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole.
The former couple called off their engagement in June 2021 – only to rekindle their romance two months later (pictured in October 2019)
Payne has since moved on with new girlfriend Kate Cassidy (pictured) while Henry continues to promote her debut novel Looking Forward – an art-imitating-life romance
The couple’s engagement followed rumours of a rift, but a source close to the lovebirds told MailOnline at the time that they were ‘definitely still a couple and are very happy together’.
The friend explained they were taking their romance off social media, adding: ‘Maya and Liam are definitely still a couple and are very happy together.
‘Both have been taking time off social media lately and enjoying each other’s company away from the spotlight.’
MailOnline has contacted a representative for further comment.