Liam Payne‘s girlfriend Kate Cassidy somberly commemorated the late One Direction’s birthday in a beautiful way.

The influencer, 26, held back tears in a TikTok video, set to Mazzy Star’s melancholic 1993 ballad “Fade Into You,” as she baked a cake for what would have been Payne’s 32nd birthday on Friday, August 29.

Cassidy finally broke down in tears as she lit one candle on the cake in honor of her late partner, who died in October 2024 after falling from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. She had been vacationing in Argentina with Payne but returned to her native U.S. only a few days before his death.

The final seconds of the heartbreaking TikTok footage saw Cassidy cutting into the cake and sharing a piece with the couple’s rescue dog Nala. Payne and

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