“ My mum lived out in the country, so I eventually decided to make my way back into town to live with Dad ‘cos I had friends there. He used to work nights, so I ended up doing a lot of stuff for myself. My dad looked after me, obviously, but I also enjoyed doing my own washing and getting myself ready for school. People used to say to me, ‘You’re old before your years.’ That sense of independence was really useful later on when One Direction started and suddenly in my mid-teens I was thrown into this mad world of living away from home. ”