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

She added that she might not have pursued an abortion had she not felt pressured by her then-partner. 

“If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have done it,” she noted. “But then also, if I were to have made a different decision, then I would’ve lost the person that I loved. There were definitely difficult conversations about it. But looking back now, things happen for a reason.”

What did Liam Payne say about his relationship with Maya Henry?

While dating Henry, Payne spoke highly of her ability to handle the spotlight. 

“If someone is going to take a picture, someone is going to do something,” he told Kiss F.M. UK in 2019. “The difference is with her, she’s so relaxed that it helps me relax in a situation, rather than being somewhere, and talk about who is watching and what’s going on. People are going to watch whatever.”

He emphasized that Henry helped his life feel more “normal.”

“It’s just been quite nice and just going out,” Payne added to the radio station. “I’ve managed to explore a lot more of London than I ever have actually my life, which has been quite fun.”

After the pair officially called off their engagement for the first time in 2021, though, Payne shared that he needed to take time to work on himself before he committed to a serious relationship. 

“I know what my pattern of things is with relationships, I feel at this point,” he said on the Diary of a CEO podcast in 2021. “I’m just not very good at them so I just need to work on myself before I put myself on to somebody else. And I feel like that’s where I got to in my last relationship.”

Keep reading for a look back at Liam’s life in photos.