PERRIE Edwards has admitted suffering what felt similar a 'dagger to the heart' erstwhile she was rejected by Jesy Nelson.
The singer, 31, broke down successful tears astir her important relationship with Little Mix stars Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall - earlier admitting she's tried to scope retired to their ex-band member.
Jesy abruptly discontinue the radical successful 2020 and person not spoken since.
Speaking connected the Happy Place podcast, Perrie spoke retired astir trying to "rectify things" with her erstwhile friend.
"I wrote a opus astir a relationship I had that I nary longer have," Perrie told big Fearne Cotton.
"When it's the narration breakdown of a friend, it's not thing you perceive astir successful music. It's conscionable arsenic heartbreaking if not worse [as romanticist love].
"When you've been successful that person's beingness for years and they've had your back, you've been done highs, lows and everything, each these experiences, it's a chaotic thrust but you've gone done it unneurotic - past poof they're gone - that's hard to woody with.
"I struggled a batch with that. It's truly sad, but astatine the aforesaid clip these things sometimes happen.
"It does marque you deliberation 'do we effort to rectify the situation? Should I scope out? It doesn't consciousness similar I should, it feels similar I should conscionable enactment away.'
"It's a truly horrible dynamic to beryllium in."
Perrie added: "When you effort and past it doesn't get taken good either... it's similar another..."
Perrie broke disconnected an imitated being stabbed successful the heart.
She continued: "You think, 'well I tried, they don't privation it. You can't unit idiosyncratic to beryllium friends with you.'
"It's truly hard."