PILLOWTALK singer Zayn Malik has been chatting with extraterrestrial beings in his sleep — and revealed it was these aliens who told him to quit One Direction.

The former boyband star sensationally left the X Factor-formed five-piece last March.

Yet instead of calling time on his five-year stint for musical differences or a passion for a solo project, the hunky Bradford lad revealed paranormal activity played its part and confessed to Glamour: “An alien spoke to me in a dream,” reports The Sun.

The other-worldly beings could well then have helped the hunky Bradford lad scoop chart success with his debut single and album, Mind of Mine, both reaching the number one spot.

His shock departure lifted the lid on a host of bad feeling among remaining group members Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan as well as sharp exchanges with manager Simon Cowell.

Malik then slammed his former band mates for not getting in touch with him and revealed “nobody’s reached out”, though went on to add he had nattered on the phone with Payne about the group’s Brit Award.

After his shock exit Liam said life in the reality show group “was never really Zayn’s kind of bag.”

He told Good Morning Britain: “His taste in music was a bit different, and I guess that’s kind of what drove him to do what he did in the end, which is not necessarily a bad thing.”

He added: “Everyone’s come out fine from it, thanks to our beautiful fans. And he’s off doing what he loves as well, so both parties are winners in the end of a disaster of a situation. It’s all good.”

Perhaps boggle-eyed beings also played a part in his love story with Victoria’s Secret angel Gigi Hadid.

The cute couple seemed to have battled through their rumoured split and were back in each other’s arms in a recent selfie the blonde beauty posted to her Instagram account.

Showing Malik tenderly kiss her as she burst into a huge smile, she uploaded the shot with the caption: “Squish ya.”

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Hadid, 21, and Malik called time on their relationship in June yet snaps showing them leaving her plush New York City apartment together prompted suggestions they were back on.

A source close to the couple, who even teamed up for a sweet shoot in Vogue magazine, then dropped a huge hint they were hooking up.

They said: “They broke up and got back together almost right away.

“Right not it’s back on, but it could be off again in an hour.”

The added to US Weekly: “They are young and keep going back and forth.

“Things are testy between them.”

This story first appeared in The Sun.