One Direction Fan Speaks After 13 Years on Zayn Malik ‘Cheating’ Scandal

An American makeup artist has claimed she is the One Direction fan who was caught up in one of Zayn Malik’s cheating scandals. 

In 2012, an audio clip of a man inviting a group of women up to his hotel room went viral when fans claimed it was Zayn – who was dating Perrie Edwards at the time. 

Fans believed the Northern man on the phone was Bradford-born Zayn as he referenced a friend called Harry wanting ‘booty’ and also told the woman to tell hotel staff she was called Crystabel Riley – the name of the band’s makeup artist. 

Zayn – who was accused of infidelity several times during his relationship with Perrie – did not address the rumours at the time. 

Now, 13 years later, Tricia Corona has claimed she was the woman on the phone and detailed her version of events, taking to TikTok to describe meeting Zayn at a One Direction fan event at a Walmart. 

She began: ‘We’re standing in line and Zayn’s making eyes at me.’ 

Tricia said her friends urged her to give him her number, so she continued: ‘Like the hoochie that I am – or that I was I should say because I’m a happily married woman now – I wrote my number down and I stuck it right in my bra.’ 

She claimed that when she got to the front of the line, Zayn told her ‘I like your jubblies [breasts]’, adding: ‘I pulled my number right out of my dress, slid it across the table and said “if you wanna hang out later – call me”.

‘I saw him say to Harry [Styles] “put it in your pocket”, so that was the meet and greet.’ 

Tricia claimed that when she and her friends were driving back home she received a phone call from a British number. 

‘I answer and you can hear all of them yelling and giggling and talking,’ she said. ‘I say hello and they don’t say anything and hang up.’ 

She claimed that this prank kept on occurring an ‘absurd amount of times’, until she got a phone call from Zayn at midnight asking her to join him at his hotel in Philadelphia. 

Tricia said she agreed and she and her friends began the 1.5 hour drive back.  

‘He’s calling me every two minutes “where are you? How far away are you? You have to be quicker – you have to get here fast because we do have to leave”‘, she claimed. 

‘We finally get to Philly and he calls and he’s like “we left, we had to go, I told you. We’re going to New York City why don’t you come meet us there?”

Tricia then claimed Louis Tomlinson called her to say: ‘don’t shoot the messenger, our tour manager has put his foot down and he says no girls back to the hotel tonight’. 

Still keen to meet the group, Tricia text Zayn saying: ‘If you want to rebel against your babysitter tonight, let me know and we’ll still come’, to which he allegedly replied: ‘f**k the babysitter, come anyway’. 

Tricia and her friends then drove to New York, arriving at roughly 2.30am, where she claims Zayn told her to tell hotel staff she was their makeup artist and come up to his room. 

Explaining why she didn’t speak out at the time, Tricia insisted that no NDA was involved but that her mother had heard the leaked audio and was upset. 

‘It was not funny at the time,’ she mused. ‘Also he [Zayn] had his own stuff going on. 

‘And yes he is a celebrity and all that but he is still very much a person and I didn’t want to throw him under the bus like that. 

‘So you can use your imagination I guess about what happened when I got up there. 

‘That’s the story of Crystabel Riley.’ 

In a second video, she clarified that she didn’t know who had leaked the audio footage, admitting: ‘I have an inkling… who fu***ing cares at this point.’ 

MailOnline has contacted Zayn’s representatives for comment. 

During his four-year romance with Perrie, Zayn was plagued with several rumours of infidelity. 

In 2013, Australian waitress Courtney Webb claimed she enjoyed a night of passion with the singer after he claimed he was single. 

After sharing pictures of Zayn in bed, she told The Sun: ‘He’s an absolute s**t. How dare he – not only to me but to Perrie?’

She then added that she believed Zayn has strayed on more than one occasion, saying: ‘I definitely don’t think it’s the first time he’s done this.

‘I feel sorry for Perrie – she doesn’t know this is going on. It’s wrong and it has to stop.’

Two years later, Swedish model, Martina Olsson claimed that Zayn cheated on Perrie with her while One Direction toured in Thailand, telling her: ‘I want you now.’

The club promoter insisted that she bedded the former 1D star twice after partying together at the same nightclub where he was pictured cuddling Essex girl Lauren Richardson.

Speaking to The Sun On Sunday, Martina said: ‘He didn’t mention anything to me about having a fiancée. He was really flirtatious’.

She claimed that she went to the star’s villa, where he asked her to take a shower with him before one thing led to another.

Martina said: ‘Straight away when we were in the bathroom he started kissing me. He picked me up and said, “I want you now,” and carried me to the bed.’

Then next night saw her partying with the band at the nightclub again, but this time Zayn reportedly had his eye on Lauren as Martina claimed that the pair disappeared for 30 minutes while at the band’s villa.

But she added that she bedded the singer again after he paid for Lauren to leave in a taxi at 5am.

After a picture of Zayn hugging Lauren went viral he returned to his home with Perrie in the UK and tweeted: ‘I’m 22 years old… I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there’s a lot of jealous f**ks in this world I’m sorry for what it looks like x.’

He then announced he was leaving One Direction’s On the Road Again World Tour due to stress.

Days later, in March 2015, he announced he was quitting the band, and five months later, he split from Perrie. 

Zayn went on to date supermodel Gigi Hadid, but the on/off couple split for good in late 2021 after he was involved in a row with Gigi’s mother Yolanda, where the singer was charged with four counts of harassment.

He pleaded no contest to the charges over allegedly pushing Yolanda into a dresser and calling her a ‘f*****g Dutch sl*t’ in September 2021.

Zayn and Gigi now amicably co-parent their four-year-old daughter Khai.