What you need to know after his hospitalization

Before the latest health scare, Malik had been open about his struggles with severe pressure and anxiety.

Moreover, he revealed in his 2016 autobiography that he developed a ‘quite serious’ eating disorder when he was with his former boy group.

“Something I’ve never talked about publicly before, but have come to terms with since I left the band, is that I suffer from an eating disorder‘ he wrote. ‘It wasn’t like I was worried about my weight or anything like that. I would just go for days – sometimes two or three days in a row – not eating anything at all.”

Malik noted that it “became quite serious,” although he reportedly “didn’t recognize it for what it was at the time.”

He also clarified that he had not deliberately restricted his diet, adding: “I think it was about control. I didn’t feel like I had control over anything else in my life, but food was something I could control, so I did. I had lost so much weight that I had become ill. The workload and pace of life on the road, along with the pressures and strains of everything going on within the band, had seriously affected my eating habits.”