India, Oct. 11 -- Harry Styles, in a recent joint Rolling Stone interview with singer Thom Yorke, shared how one of his former girlfriends helped him overcome public anxiety.

"In the early days, when I was in the band (One Direction), so much of the hotel experience felt very locked-in. When I'd be home, it felt like, 'Oh, it's not safe for me to be out.;," said the Grammy winner.

However, the 32-year-old, who dated Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner and Caroline Flack in the 2010s, did overcome the anxiety of being in public with some help. "I had a girlfriend who was very outgoing, and she was coming to London and I was like, 'Oh, if we just sit in my house for three days, she's gonna think I'm nuts,'" he continued. "So we walked everywhere...