Liam Payne’s sister has shared a poignant tribute to mark half a year since his untimely passing.
The former One Direction member, aged 31, passed away on October 16, 2024, after a fall from a third-floor balcony at the CasaSur hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Payne was in Buenos Aires to attend a concert by ex-bandmate Niall Horan, and he was seen enjoying the show alongside his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy.
Nevertheless, Cassidy returned to the United States two days prior to Payne’s death. Following the incident, police reported being called to the hotel due to complaints of a “man acting aggressively who may have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol.”
He leaves behind his eight-year-old son, Bear Grey Payne, his sisters Nicola and Ruth, and his parents Geoff and Karen, who raised him in Wolverhampton, England.
On Instagram, Ruth Gibbons expressed her sorrow: “6 months, half a year without you?! My head is still screaming for you.”
She added: “Each morning on waking, I feel like I am plunged underwater, gasping for air that never comes to relieve me.”
Ruth continued: “Living without you is impossible, so for now, I exist.”
“I’m learning to laugh or smile in the right places, but mate, it’s exhausting when all I want to do is speak to you.”
“In the few moments I allow myself to feel love and not just loss, I can really smile at memories of us, like last year when we were doubled over laughing at us trying to make something we’d seen on youtube, but memories are always tinged with sadness at how unfair it is we can’t make new ones.”
Ruth’s heartfelt message went on: “I can sometimes hear you laughing at me walking around like Whoopi Goldberg in ‘ghost’, looking for you everywhere I go. I see you though, you’re always coming through in different ways to put me back on the right path.”
“I can’t process what’s happened and the finality of it, you know I will never stop doing all I can for you. I miss you loudly, quietly and in all the moments inbetween.”
“Love you so much more than these words or my tears are capable of expressing but I know you know this. For now, I’ll meet you in my dreams.”
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