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