Every giddy detail of my night with Zayn Malik and Harry Styles: After Zayn said he liked my breasts, how could I say no to their call for 'booty'! Here are the pictures, texts, call logs - suong

The identity of the fan who One Direction star Zayn Malik invited up to his hotel room in a leaked phone call has been revealed – and now the woman is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive Daily Mail interview.

In 2012, an audio clip was leaked of a man with a northern-English accent inviting a group of women to come over, sending the One Direction fanbase into meltdown when they speculated the man was none other than Zayn Malik.

The man on the call said his friend 'Harry' - who fans speculated was bandmate Harry Styles - wanted 'booty' and instructed the woman to tell hotel staff she was Crystabel Riley, the band's makeup artist, to avoid attention from fans outside. 

The mystery of who 'Crystabel Riley' was plagued the fanbase for over a decade, until Tricia Corona, a now 32-year-old married mother-of-two, revealed that she was the mysterious woman on the other end of the line.

Although Malik, who was just two months shy of his 19th birthday during his hotel rendezvous with Corona, was reportedly dating Little Mix's Perrie Edwards at the time, she told Daily Mail she was not a home-wrecker.

'We were kids, and that was that,' Corona told Daily Mail at her home in Zelienople, Pennsylvania.

'I'm a mom-of-two now. That was a fun time in my life. But this is my life now, and…I'm at a point where I don't care, I'll tell you the story. It's whatever. It happened.' 

Corona said she first locked eyes with Malik when she took her superfan cousin to meet One Direction during an album signing at a Walmart in suburban Philadelphia on March 17, 2012. 

After four hours of standing in line with other fans, she finally got to meet the now-defunct band and boldly gave Malik her phone number on a piece of paper she had stuffed in her bra. 

'I don't know where the confidence came from to do what I did. It's almost like I blacked out,' said Corona, a mortgage processor and make-up artist. 

'We were all just giddy, it's exciting. When we were standing in line, and even when we went up and talked to them, we never would have expected that the night would have ended the way it did.'

She said on walking up to the table, she first spoke to the band's Liam Payne – who tragically died last year in Argentina – then Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson, before seeing Malik.

She recalled: 'He was signing something, and we just went up to him, and he said, "Hello", and he kind of muttered, "I like your jubblies". 

'I didn't know what that meant. And I looked at my cousin. She was like, "I think he means he likes your boobs".

'And then I just pulled my number out of my bra, and I was like, "If you want to hang out later, just call me". And I slid it across the table, and he was like, "Okay".

'And I saw him pass it off to Harry Styles, and he said: "Keep them". I think by the time I got to Harry, I honestly blacked out.

'I was always a Zayn girl, but Harry is just like, he's just a sweet little baby.'

Malik's rep did not return a request for comment. Styles's said it was too long ago to remember.

Corona shared photos with the Daily Mail that she said were taken the day of the signing. In one, she is wearing a neon mini dress, a dark-colored vest and boots. 

Other snaps show the 1D stars sitting at a table in green T-shirts – a nod to St Patrick's Day (which falls on March 17) – with silly string spattered on a picture of their faces behind them.

She also shared screenshots of what she said were call logs and messages from 1D star Malik.

Corona first made her claim on TikTok, where she said she, her cousin and two friends they had met at the signing in Somerdale, New Jersey, were driving back home to the Pittsburgh area when they got a call from a British phone number.

'I answer and you can hear all of them yelling and giggling and talking,' she said. 'I say hello and they don't say anything and hang up.'

She claimed that this prank kept on occurring an 'absurd amount of times', until she got a phone call from Malik at midnight asking her to join him at his hotel in Philadelphia.

Corona said she agreed, and she and her friends began the one-and-a-half-hour drive back. 

'He's calling me every two minutes, "Where are you? How far away are you? You have to be quicker – you have to get here fast because we do have to leave",' she claimed.

'We finally get to Philly and he calls and he's like '"We left, we had to go, I told you. We're going to New York City. Why don't you come meet us there?"'

She claims Malik called her and invited her to his luxury New York hotel room, where she says they chatted about his newfound fame, enjoyed a room service meal of chicken and fries before what she euphemistically calls an 'adult rendezvous'.

Corona also claimed that Malik's bandmate, Styles, was 'interested' in one of her friends and invited her to his hotel room, opposite Malik's, the same night – but declined to divulge the friend's identity or further details about the encounter. The cousin and the other friend stayed in the car.

She said she and her friends went to see the popstars at The London, a high-end hotel in midtown Manhattan and told how she was blown away by the opulent surroundings.

In the end, she says she did not have to use the elaborate 'Crystabel Riley' ruse, telling the Daily Mail, she and her pal 'just walked right in' and took the elevator up to the floor the band were staying on.

'It was the nicest hotel I've ever been in,' Corona said. 'It was super fancy.

'I remember going up in the elevator, and it stopped on a floor, and the doors opened, and Liam and Louis were standing there. And, of course, like the little girls we were, we were like, "What the heck?"

'They were on a different floor from Zayn and Harry. And then we went up to their floor, they were across the hall from each other.'

Corona said Malik answered the door and she went in while her friend went into Styles's room opposite.

Once inside, she said she and Malik 'chatted, had fun and got some food' from room service, which she recalls as chicken fingers and French fries.

'We had a nice time. He was very respectful, very kind. We chatted, we had fun, got some food.

'The groupie life is like Fight Club,' Corona added. 'Don't talk about it. But, I'm not in it anymore, so I guess it doesn't matter.'

She confirmed the pair slept together, adding: 'We had an adult rendezvous. We were both adults. We were legal, consenting adults, and that's what I'll say. 

'And he was nothing but kind and respectful.'

Addressing one internet 'theory' that there were other people involved, she insisted: 'There was not another person. It was me and Zayn.'

She did not want to reveal anything about her female friend, but said she was 'not with me'.