Everything He’s Said as They Pay Tribute After His Death

The 5 members of the juggernaut group — Payne, Harry Kinds, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik — had been put collectively on the 2010 version of The X Issue within the UK, happening 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 Route happening an indefinite hiatus in 2016, Directioners without end held out hope that they might sooner or later 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 Lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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

“We’re fully devastated by the information of Liam’s passing. In time, and when everybody is ready to, there might 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 liked dearly. The reminiscences we shared with him might be treasured without end. For now, our ideas are together with his household, his pals, and the followers who liked 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 looking again at Payne’s historical past with One Route, together with what he is stated 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 dying.

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

“It is rather unhappy as a result of One Route was an exquisite, great time in all of our lives. It was like uni, however on steroids,” he stated 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 Route. In an interview with Males’s Well being Australia for his or her July 2019 cowl story, the singer recalled darkish days in the course of the top of the band’s fame, saying he drank to manage.

“While you’re doing a whole lot and a whole lot of [concerts] and it is the identical 22 songs on the similar time each single day, even in case you’re not pleased, you have to go on the market,” Payne stated.

“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 technique to get your head round what was happening,” 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 a bit bit poisonous.”

Payne additionally seemed 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 Route.

“It actually was the right storm. There have been so many eventualities that needed to fall into line for that to occur. It is not one thing that may simply be recreated or most likely ever might be due to the way in which the Web was kicking off, the way in which 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 will have the extent of fame that we had within the band,” Payne stated. “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 Route got here throughout an interview with Logan Paul, by 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.

In the course of 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 explanation why I dislike Zayn and there is many explanation why I will at all times, at all times be on his aspect,” Payne stated. “If I had needed to undergo what he went via — together with his development and no matter else … My mother and father are overly supportive to the purpose the place it is annoying at occasions. Zayn had a special upbringing in that sense.”

“Hear, I do not agree with any of his actions. I am unable to commend a number of the issues that he is executed. I am unable to be on his aspect for that,” he added. What I can say is I perceive and your solely hope is that in some unspecified time in the future of their life, the particular person on the different finish of the telephone desires to obtain the assistance that you simply’re prepared to provide 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] eager 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 stated.

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

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

Payne took to Instagram, sharing a celebratory publish in honor of Kinds.

Alongside a picture of Kinds on stage trying down at his trophy after successful Album of the Yr, Payne wrote, “Wow … this picture is de facto one thing to get up to, and if 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 explanation behind all of it — in a YouTube video in July 2023.

“Lots of what I stated got here from the incorrect place. I used to be so indignant at what was happening round me and as an alternative of looking 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 incorrect, actually,” stated 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 choice to test in to rehab. And whereas he stated he regretted his polarizing feedback, he additionally has come to consider the “life-changing” expertise “saved my life in a method.”

Payne stated he had a greater “grip on life and all the pieces 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 Route, Payne stated that “the remainder of the boys actually caught by me once I wanted them most, they kinda got here to the rescue. Even Zayn, as effectively, which is why I did ship him a bit thanks on-line.”

Only a couple of weeks earlier than his dying, Payne shared that he hoped to reunite together 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 line with E! On-line.

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

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

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 Lodge. On Thursday, TMZ known as his dying an “obvious suicide” in a report noting {that a} police official, communications director for the Buenos Aires Safety Ministry Pablo Policicchio — the group answerable for town’s safety — advised 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 stunning and sudden loss. See how stars are paying tribute within the gallery, under.