Louis Tomlinson is reflecting on just how fast the night changes.

The former One Direction member remembered the day he, Harry Styles , Niall Horan and the late Liam Payne agreed to walk away from the band in 2016, and explained it being a group decision didn’t make it any less difficult.

“The room felt cold that day,” Louis recalled on the Oct. 8 episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast. “I can remember that in particular.”

And although the now 33-year-old felt the end of One Direction—which formed on The X Factor in 2010—was coming, as a “glass half full kind of guy” he originally tried to brush it off . That is, until he couldn’t anymore.

“It was awful,” he shared. “It wasn’t until after the event that I realized that I actually

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