Louis Tomlinson will ‘never really accept’ Liam Payne’s death

Originally appeared on E! Online

Louis Tomlinson will always treasure Liam Payne .

One year after his One Direction bandmate’s tragic death , Tomlinson recently opened up about how hard it still is to recognize his friend’s passing.

"I naively thought that, at this point,” Tomlinson — whose mom and sister died in 2016 and 2019, respectively — told The Independent in an interview published Oct. 18, “I'd unfortunately be a little bit more well-versed with grief than other people my age. I thought that might mean something, but it didn't at all.”

The “Back to You” singer added of Payne, who died in October 2024 after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Argentina, "It's something I'll never really accept, I don't think.”

In 2010, Payne and Tomlinson became part