United Kingdom, May 9 -- Zayn Malik has claimed One Direction all "resented each other".

The 31-year-old singer shot to fame when he competed on 'The X Factor' in 2010 and the judges put him into the boyband alongside Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, and he's admitted now they should all have been kinder to one another instead of feeling they were in "competition" because of their original solo ambitions.

Speaking on 'The Zach Sang Show', he reflected: "I think the thing was, we were so young. And when we were in the band, we didn't have that level of compassion yet because we didn't understand life yet. We just were young kids that just were thrown in the situation.

"Now, when I look back at it, I can look at...