Every little thing He is Stated as They Pay Tribute After His Demise

The 5 members of the juggernaut group — Payne, Harry Types, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik — have been put collectively on the 2010 version of The X Issue within the UK, occurring to a third-place end earlier than getting signed by Simon Cowell and catapulting to superstardom.

The band went on to take the world by storm, amassing one of many largest and most passionate fan bases, and releasing 5 albums. And regardless of Malik leaving the band in 2015, and One Course occurring an indefinite hiatus in 2016, Directioners endlessly held out hope that they might in the future see a reunion.

As a substitute, they mourned alongside Payne’s bandmates after the singer handed away on the age of 31 on October 16 after falling from his third-floor balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Resort in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Following the heartbreaking information, Types, Horan, Tomlinson, and Malik launched a joint assertion on social media.

“We’re utterly devastated by the information of Liam’s passing. In time, and when everybody is ready to, there shall be extra to say,” the assertion learn. “However for now, we are going to take a while to grieve and course of the lack of our brother, who we beloved dearly. The recollections we shared with him shall be treasured endlessly. For now, our ideas are along with his household, his pals, and the followers who beloved him alongside us. We are going to miss him terribly. We love you Liam. Louis, Zayn, Niall and Harry.”

Tomlinson and Malik additionally shared particular person tributes. Learn them right here.

Within the wake of his devastating passing, TooFab is having a look again at Payne’s historical past with One Course, together with what he is mentioned about his expertise with the boy band and his former bandmates, and the hope’s he’d needed to reconnect with one member earlier than his loss of life.

Throughout an look on the Weird Life with Dan Wootton in Could 2017, Payne shared that he did not perceive why Malik talked poorly about his time in One Course following his exit.

“It is extremely unhappy as a result of One Course was an exquisite, fantastic time in all of our lives. It was like uni, however on steroids,” he mentioned on the time. “It was mad. It was insanity. It was a lot enjoyable. I do not perceive how one can come out of that have and say the issues that he says generally. It would not make any sense to me, however there you go.”

Payne had opened up about struggles he confronted whereas a member of One Course. In an interview with Males’s Well being Australia for his or her July 2019 cowl story, the singer recalled darkish days throughout the top of the band’s fame, saying he drank to manage.

“If you’re doing lots of and lots of of [concerts] and it is the identical 22 songs on the similar time each single day, even for those who’re not joyful, you have to go on the market,” Payne mentioned.

“It is virtually like placing the Disney costume on earlier than you step up on stage and beneath the Disney costume I used to be pissed various the time as a result of there was no different method to get your head round what was occurring,” he continued. “I imply it was enjoyable. We had an absolute blast however there have been sure elements of it the place it simply obtained somewhat bit poisonous.”

Payne additionally regarded again at competing on The X Issue. He was solely 14 when he auditioned the primary time. Two years later, he was put into One Course.

“It actually was the proper storm. There have been so many eventualities that needed to fall into line for that to occur. It isn’t one thing that may simply be recreated or most likely ever shall be due to the best way the Web was kicking off, the best way The X Issue kicked off. I simply assume it was simply dumb luck.”

The “Strip That Down” singer additionally spoke about how being within the band impacted his psychological well being.

“It is troublesome when you’ve the extent of fame that we had within the band,” Payne mentioned. “There have been lots of people in hassle with psychological well being that are not actually getting the assistance that they want, and I believe that is a little bit of an issue in our trade.”

“It is the identical s–t that occurs to everybody, that is been occurring because the ’70s,” he added. “You understand what the traps are and if you’re fortunate sufficient, like me, to have the ability to get out of that state of affairs and again into a way of normality, then you realize it is a bit totally different.”

See extra about Payne’s previous struggles with psychological well being within the hyperlink, under.

Payne’s most notorious feedback about One Course got here throughout an interview with Logan Paul, during which he appeared on his Impaulsive podcast.

The pop star trashed the boy band, and even claimed that it was constructed round him, which later prompted The X Issue to debunk his declare with video proof.

Throughout the interview, Payne additionally blasted his former bandmate, Zayn Malik, sharing his ideas on the “Pillowtalk” singer after Paul requested a couple of feud between Malik, Gigi Hadid, and Logan’s brother Jake that then referenced Malik’s alleged altercation with Yolanda Hadid.

“There’s many the reason why I dislike Zayn and there is many the reason why I am going to all the time, all the time be on his facet,” Payne mentioned. “If I had needed to undergo what he went by means of — along with his development and no matter else … My mother and father are overly supportive to the purpose the place it is annoying at instances. Zayn had a unique upbringing in that sense.”

“Hear, I do not agree with any of his actions. I can not commend a few of the issues that he is achieved. I can not be on his facet for that,” he added. What I can say is I perceive and your solely hope is that sooner or later of their life, the particular person on the different finish of the cellphone needs to obtain the assistance that you just’re keen to offer them.”

Payne additionally shaded Louis Tomlinson, saying he had a wild and rebellious spirit that usually led to them butting heads.

“I wasn’t used to rowdy guys and no matter else. … Louis was wild and [he was] desirous to be wild, that is his spirit, and likewise he is my greatest mate now, however within the band we hated one another. Like, to come back to blows — hated one another,” he mentioned.

With out naming names, Payne additional claimed that issues did come to physicality with one of many guys, with one member allegedly throwing him towards a wall backstage. “I mentioned to him ‘For those who don’t take away these fingers there is a excessive probability you’ll by no means use them once more,'” Payne informed Paul.

In 2023, Payne congratulated his former bandmate Harry Types after he gained two Grammys, together with Album of the Yr, for Harry’s Home.

Payne took to Instagram, sharing a celebratory put up in honor of Types.

Alongside a picture of Types on stage trying down at his trophy after profitable Album of the Yr, Payne wrote, “Wow … this picture is absolutely one thing to get up to, and whenever you write music such as you do Harry you deserve each millisecond of that second trying down smiling on the trophy you’ve got earned. God bless you brother congratulations.”

Whereas Payne had beforehand issued apologies for the remarks he made about 1D and Malik on the Impaulsive podcast, he additional addressed them — and defined the rationale behind all of it — in a YouTube video in July 2023.

“A whole lot of what I mentioned got here from the mistaken place. I used to be so offended at what was occurring round me and as a substitute of having a look inwards I made a decision to look outwards at all people else and I simply assume, yeah, I took it out on all people else, which is simply mistaken, actually,” mentioned Payne, who shared that he was celebrating six months of sobriety following 100 days in rehab.

“The entire thing as much as that time was only a scramble to remain related,” Payne added of the time main as much as his determination to test in to rehab. And whereas he mentioned he regretted his polarizing feedback, he additionally has come to imagine the “life-changing” expertise “saved my life in a means.”

Payne mentioned he had a greater “grip on life and the whole lot that was getting away from me; I simply really feel like I’ve obtained extra of a deal with on it.”

Regardless of his hurtful feedback about a few of his fellow members of One Course, Payne mentioned that “the remainder of the boys actually caught by me after I wanted them most, they kinda got here to the rescue. Even Zayn, as properly, which is why I did ship him somewhat thanks on-line.”

Only a couple of weeks earlier than his loss of life, Payne shared that he hoped to reunite along with his former bandmate Niall Horan. Payne and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy went to Horan’s live performance in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 2, in response to E! On-line.

In a video shared on Snapchat — which was reposted on X — Payne revealed that he and Cassidy have been going to attend Horan’s live performance.

“I believe we’d simply go and say hey! It has been some time since me and Niall have spoken. We have got rather a lot to speak about,” he shared within the clip. “And I wish to sq. up a few issues with the boy. No unhealthy vibes or something like that. However simply … we have to discuss.”

It is unclear if Payne and Horan in the end met up.

On October 16, Payne died after falling from his third-floor balcony on the CasaSur Palermo Resort. On Thursday, TMZ referred to as his loss of life an “obvious suicide” in a report noting {that a} police official, communications director for the Buenos Aires Safety Ministry Pablo Policicchio — the group chargeable for town’s safety — informed the Related Press that Payne “had jumped from the balcony of his room.”

In keeping with the preliminary post-mortem, per TMZ, the autumn resulted in a number of accidents, together with “inner and exterior hemorrhage.” The toxicology report remains to be pending.

Following the information of Payne’s passing, the music trade, pals, household, and celebrities are reacting to the surprising and sudden loss. See how stars are paying tribute within the gallery, under.