Kate Cassidy says Christmas a ‘time of grief and disappointment’

Liam Payne’s girlfriend has shared a message about experiencing disappointment and grief in the course of the Christmas holidays following the singer’s dying earlier this yr.

Payne died in October after falling from the balcony of his lodge room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.

Kate Cassidy – who had been in a relationship with the One Route star since 2022 – stated: “As the vacations are right here, I realise it’s a time for happiness and pleasure, however it is usually a time of disappointment and grief for therefore many.”

In an Instagram tales put up, she stated she was sending like to these “carrying grief this vacation” and referred to as on folks to be light with these experiencing grief over Christmas.

“The vacations can really feel totally different for everybody,” she says, and desires everybody “a love-filled and wholesome vacation season this yr.”.

In October, Cassidy revealed on social media that Payne wrote a word to her shortly earlier than his dying predicting they’d get married inside a yr.

In her tribute to him after he died, she referred to as Payne “my finest good friend, the love of my life” and stated that she had “misplaced the most effective a part of myself”.

Payne’s sudden dying led to an outpouring of grief from his household, associates and followers all over the world.

The Wolverhampton-born singer shot to fame when he auditioned for the X Consider 2010 on the age of 16 and have become a part of One Route.

Whereas the boy band went on to attain phenomenal success throughout the globe, Payne himself acknowledged that it got here at a value and admitted that he used alcohol to deal with the band’s growing fame.

His dying prompted a debate concerning the responsibility of care within the music trade, notably for younger folks.

In November, Argentinian authorities confirmed that three folks have been charged in reference to the singer’s dying.

Toxicology exams revealed traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his physique.

A autopsy examination decided his explanation for dying as “a number of trauma” and “inside and exterior haemorrhage”, on account of the autumn from the lodge balcony.

In line with the prosecutor’s workplace, medical reviews additionally prompt Payne might have fallen in a state of semi or whole unconsciousness.

Payne’s funeral was held in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, final month and was attended by associates, household, and his One Route bandmates.