not-so-subtly accusing the Hadids for leaking details of the confrontation to the press. Additionally, he claimed that he only pleaded no contest for the sake of his daughter.
“I don’t tend to get involved when people say things online, whether it’s got something to do with me or whether it doesn’t,” he said on Call Her Daddy. “Because for me, my most valuable thing that I have in life is time. And that takes so much time, in a toxic environment, to explain yourself to people and justify things. I knew what the situation was, I knew what happened and the people involved knew, too. And that’s all I really cared about.
“I just didn’t want to bring attention to anything and wasn’t trying to get into a negative back and forth with [Yolanda], or any sort of narrative online where my daughter was gonna look back and read that,” he added. Despite his sentencing, Malik has mostly been spared by the court of public opinion on social media. The former boybander’s fanbase has largely rallied around him, even denying Yolanda’s claims based on her somewhat negative reputation on