Louis Tomlinson has opened up about the emotional aftermath of Liam Payne’s tragic untimely death.
Louis’ former One Direction bandmate died aged 31 in Buenos Aires after falling from a third-floor balcony at the Casa Sur Palmero Hotel on 16 October 2024.
Toxicology report revealed he had alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system.
In a new interview with The independent, Louis said that he has a hard time accepting that Liam is dead.
“I naively thought that at this point, unfortunately, I would be a bit more familiar with grief than other people my age,” he reflected, after losing his mother to leukemia in 2016 and his sister to an accidental overdose in 2019.
“I thought it might mean something, but it didn’t at all. It’s something I’ll never really accept. I don’t think so,” he added of Liam’s death.
On Thursday 16 October, tributes poured in for the late singer. His girlfriend Kate Cassidy shared a cute video of Liam trying to lift her up and failing.
Liam’s sister Ruth wrote a heartbreaking note, writing: “1 year, 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days… no matter how I say it, it still means the most heartbreaking truth that you’re not here anymore.”
She added: “When you used to go on tour and I’d cry you’d be gone for a while, I always knew you’d come back but now I can’t get you home, I can’t meet you anywhere in the world, I can’t facetime or text to see how you are, it’s an eternal feeling of homesickness because we can’t go back.”
