Who Is Maya Henry? Everything to Know About Liam Payne's Ex-Girlfriend

“Maya was blindsided by the split,” an insider told E! News astatine the time. “He abruptly ended it with her. She is precise upset. They person decidedly had their just stock of ups and downs successful their relationship.”

To get to cognize much astir Henry and her narration with the precocious One Direction member, support reading… 

Who is Liam Payne's ex Maya Henry?

The influencer, 23, is the girl to Azteca Henry and Thomas Jude Henry and sister to older member Thomas Henry. She is presently pursuing a originative penning grade astatine New York University, and hopes to prosecute instrumentality schoolhouse upon her December 2024 graduation, she told Authority Magazine successful an interrogation earlier this month. 

Although she was raised successful Corpus Christi, Texas, she relocated to London erstwhile she turned 18 successful 2018 to prosecute modeling. 

What has Maya Henry said astir Liam Payne’s death?

Henry has yet to talk retired following the decease of the erstwhile One Direction member. However, successful the clip since their breakup, she has often spoken astir their tumultuous relationship. In May, she told People successful May that upon gathering the “Strip that Down” singer, she recovered him “very charming and saccharine and nice.”

But Henry admitted that erstwhile it came to their romance, not everything was a “fairytale.”

“I decidedly chose to forgive a batch of things,” she explained. “When you emotion idiosyncratic truthful much, you person those rose-colored glasses. You’re successful denial, truthful you deliberation those things volition stop, and they don’t, and that conscionable becomes an contented among different issues.”

What ineligible battles were Maya Henry and Liam Payne progressive successful anterior to the singer’s death? 

In the days starring up to Liam’s death, Henry had allegedly asked lawyers to contented a cease and desist missive to the One Direction singer, accusing Payne of repeatedly contacting her, her friends and family. 

“Maya Henry issued a cease and desist past week to Liam Payne pursuing the emergence of caller and concerning information,” Maya’s lawyers told The Daily Mail Oct. 16. “She has retained attorneys Marco Crawford and Daniel Cerna to correspond her. At this time, that is her lone remark connected the matter.”

Did Maya Henry constitute astir Liam Payne successful her publication Looking Forward?

In May, Henry self-published her debut novel, Looking Forward pursuing Mallory Hunt, a Tennessee native-turned-fashion exemplary who ends up successful a narration with Oliver Smith, a subordinate of a fashionable boyband 5Forward. However, Mallory rapidly finds that Oliver is warring demons down closed doors. Alongside the release, Henry noted that the publication was inspired by existent events, though she didn’t specifically sanction Payne arsenic inspiration for Oliver. In the months since her publication release, she’s since shared penetration into the backlash she received from One Direction fans.  

“A batch of the One Direction fanbase had issues with it,” Henry told precocious Authority Magazine. “But there’s ever backlash erstwhile you make thing similar this—especially erstwhile it involves idiosyncratic they idolize. There’s ever going to beryllium a toxic fandom. But successful the end, I consciousness similar women request to travel unneurotic and clasp men accountable for their actions.”

But she has specified which aspects of Mallory’s travel she took from her own. For instance, successful the book, Mallory has to acquisition an termination by herself—which Henry aboriginal explained has parallels to her ain experience.  

“What I went done successful existent beingness is precise akin to what Mallory went done successful the book. I decidedly did person immoderate complications, and I did person to spell to the infirmary alone,” she told People. “It was precise lonely, having these men archer you, ‘Oh, it’s going to consciousness similar a dense period, it’s not going to beryllium that painful, it’s going to beryllium easy.’ But I’m like, you’ve ne'er adjacent gone done thing similar [this], truthful however would you cognize to archer me?” 

She added that she mightiness not person pursued an termination had she not felt pressured by her then-partner. 

“If it were up to me, I wouldn’t person done it,” she noted. “But past also, if I were to person made a antithetic decision, past I would’ve mislaid the idiosyncratic that I loved. There were decidedly hard conversations astir it. But looking backmost now, things hap for a reason.”

What did Liam Payne accidental astir his narration with Maya Henry?

While dating Henry, Payne spoke highly of her quality to grip the spotlight. 

“If idiosyncratic is going to instrumentality a picture, idiosyncratic is going to bash something,” helium told Kiss F.M. UK successful 2019. “The quality is with her, she’s truthful relaxed that it helps maine unbend successful a situation, alternatively than being somewhere, and speech astir who is watching and what’s going on. People are going to ticker whatever.”

He emphasized that Henry helped his beingness consciousness much “normal.”

“It’s conscionable been rather bully and conscionable going out,” Payne added to the vigor station. “I’ve managed to research a batch much of London than I ever person really my life, which has been rather fun.”

After the pair officially called disconnected their engagement for the archetypal clip successful 2021, though, Payne shared that helium needed to instrumentality clip to enactment connected himself earlier helium committed to a superior relationship. 

“I cognize what my signifier of things is with relationships, I consciousness astatine this point,” helium said connected the Diary of a CEO podcast successful 2021. “I'm conscionable not precise bully astatine them truthful I conscionable request to enactment connected myself earlier I enactment myself connected to idiosyncratic else. And I consciousness similar that's wherever I got to successful my past relationship.”

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