Perrie opens up: ‘I’ve been through a lot – but music is my therapy’

While her former fiance Zayn Malik has been pretty happy to refer to their one-time union, Perrie Edwards has remained rather more tight-lipped.

In fact, since they split more than a year ago, the 23-year-old Little Mix beauty has barely referred to the man she once planned to marry. 

However, now in a telling interview, Ms Edwards has hinted at the trauma she has endured in recent times. 

Referring to Little Mix's forthcoming, still-unnamed album, she told Sugarscape: "It's very – and I know we probably said this about the last album – honest. It's very what's been happening in the past few months or the past year. 

"We've been through a lot personally, emotionally and career-wise. Every aspect, we've wanted to just get off our chest and the best way to do it is with this album.

"That's why we're loving it so much. It's like therapy."

The album will be the band's fourth and although it hasn't yet been given a release-date, it will be out before the end of 2016.

Meanwhile, Zayn Malik's relationship with 21-year-old Gigi Hadid continues to flourish: the duo recently moved in together in LA.