Liam Payne’s sister Ruth shared a heartfelt post in memory of the late One Direction star who tragically died in October last year while in Argentina
Liam Payne’s heartbroken sister Ruth shared a sweet message in memory of her late brother Liam.
The One Direction star tragically died after falling from his third floor hotel balcony while in Argentina last October. Liam, who was only 31 at the time of his death, left behind a devastated family and a son, who he shared with former pop star Cheryl.
In the emotional post, Ruth told her followers that she was “missing him so much”. Sharing a picture of her and Liam, the image was from a 2019 Facebook post, which was in celebration of his solo album being released.
Their other sister Nicola shared the Facebook post with fans at the time and said: “Tonight at midnight my brother’s first solo album comes out. At 14 years old Liam set off to become a singer. He joined a band at 16 and the last 10 years has been on the most mad career path ever!”
She continued: “We as a family have stood side stage for the last 10 years cheering him on. All hoping that one day he would get his own album out and showcase just how talented he is, when I finally get in my car tomorrow and press play on the album I will feel so proud of his achievement,,.. I only wish my drive to work was longer than a couple of songs.”
Ruth who re-posted the sweet message captioned her post saying: “Oh mate, the best was yet to come. You’re missing so much.” This comes a few weeks after she paid tribute to Liam, 12 months on from his funeral. She shared a childhood picture of the two of them together.
Alongside her picture she said: “A year ago today, the hardest goodbye I’ll ever have, a funeral I should never have had to plan and every day since, I should have never had to live without him.”
She added: “Missing him now is part of breathing, it doesn’t get easier, that’s just a lie to make it feel better: Infinite love, infinite loss.”
In memory of her late brother, she posted an open letter to him where she gives fans an insight into the daily pain she feels as she grieves the loss of her beloved brother.
She penned: “I underestimated grief, woah, did I underestimate it. I am paralysed by it daily. I thought I had felt it before but I know the losses before you were just intense sadness, you are the loss of my life, the one person who l will miss at every single occasion in my life.”
She added: “I’d taken for granted that my little brother would be there through life. You shouldn’t have died.” Ruth also revealed she’s been having a recurring nightmare that places her in Liam’s hotel room moments before his death on that fateful night.”
Ruth went on to say that Liam “can’t hear me screaming for you, my brain is locked on your last minutes on this earth, the unaccounted minutes, the minutes I will never have the answers to, the minutes that changed everything.”
Explaining her grief, Ruth went on to add that she struggles to cope with life without him as she said that his absence “is something that happens to me everyday before I even open my eyes.”
She went to say that she would give anything to have five more minutes with her beloved brother, as she described all the things she love to tell him, including joke telling.
Asking for people to respect the family’s grief and privacy, she went to share: “Whilst I am still on my knees struggling to regain balance since my world burned down and every time I try to take a step, something comes and sets fire to all the progress I thought I had made in my mind, in trying to understand where or why Liam isn’t here helping me through this.”
She added: “Everyone only seems interested in the public side of this, some sadly seem more interested in the fame they can gain off this, but on the human side people need to remember when they speak, there is a son without his Dad, parents without their child and I am lost without my brother. Love always Liam, in every lifetime.”
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