Louis Tomlinson has recalled the shattering moment he found out about the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne.

The singer died aged 31 in October last year after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel room in Buenos Aires, with family, friends and fans rushing to pay tribute.

A year on, Louis has spoken publicly for the first time about his friend’s death and how he found the tragedy ‘unjust and frustrating’.

When asked on Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast about where he was when the news came, Louis said: ‘In the car, in LA. I found out through Niall [Horan].’

Payne wasn’t Louis’ first experience of intense grief. In December 2016, Louis’ mother Johannah Deakin died of leukaemia at the age of 43, and three years later, in March 2019, his younger siste

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