Louis Tomlinson, a former member of One Direction, has made an announcement about the tragic passing of his bandmate Liam Payne, who tragically died from a balcony in Benous Aires, Argentina, a year ago.
A year after the tragic fall of the star from a hotel balcony in Benous Aires, Argentina, Louis Tomlinson has tearfully admitted he will “never really accept” his friend Liam Payne.
The grief he feels around his late bandmate Liam’s passing, who was just 31 when he passed away, has been addressed openly by One Direction star Louis.
Not just Louis’s grief, though, is heartbreaking: his sister Félicité passed away from an accidental overdose in 2019 and Louis’ month Joanna Deakin passed away from leukaemia in 2016 and his sister Joanna Deakin passed away from leukaemia in 2019.
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Louis has now admitted in a candid interview that he believed his prior struggles with grief would almost equip him. He told The Independent, “I naively thought that I’d be a little bit more well-versed in grief than other people my age,” he said.
Before he spoke of Liam’s death, Louis said, “I thought that might mean something, but it didn’t at all,” adding that I’ll never really understand. I don’t believe anything.
Elsewhere in the interview, Louis gushed over his late friend, revealing how he and his fellow bandmates Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan would look up to Liam after Louis described him as a “vital” part of the band in a tribute to him. He added: “In between him playing that role and also doing a huge chunk of the songwriting… it’s not even up for debate.”
Louis also looked back on his fondest memories of Liam, revealed he would “always entertain me”, while he would also always show up to support him, too – for example when Liam turned up to the premiere for his 2023 documentary, All of Those Voices, or appeared as Louis’ guest on The X Factor during his judging stint.
Louis remarked, “Whenever he had the chance to be there for me, wherever he might have been, even if he had been struggling, he would always, always be there for me.” And that is how Liam would appear in front of his friends, which Louis believes is “a proof of who he was as a person””.
The singer’s most recent open interview comes after he revealed the tragic death of his pal.
Louis Tomlinson revealed Niall Horan informed him about the death of the pair’s former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne, saying “we all looked up to him”.
Tomlinson claimed to be in Los Angeles when he first learned of Payne’s passing while speaking with Steven Bartlett of The Diary of a CEO podcast.
In LA, in the car. I learned this through Niall, he said, adding that his statement to Bartlett evoked a similar sentiment to his sister Felicite’s 2019 accidental drug overdose death.
My 150 percent wasn’t nearly enough, which is the same feeling I had with Felicite, and I think anyone who is struggling might have this feeling.
“And that’s when I realize I could have actually helped, because it was so much deeper than what I could have done for him,” I think. At the time in his life, he was undoubtedly struggling.
Source: Mirror
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