Louis Tomlinson and his fellow former One Course bandmates haven’t even thought of a possible reunion since Liam Payne’s tragic demise.
“By no means say by no means, proper, however I’m simply unsure it will be proper to him,” Tomlinson, 33, stated on the Wednesday, October 8, episode of the “Diary of a CEO” podcast. “Say for the sake of argument, 25 yr’s time, it’s like a f***ing Oasis factor, [and] they provide us an arm and a leg, and so they’re like, ‘Come again and do that many reveals.’ I don’t know.”
In keeping with Tomlinson, Payne’s demise “simply utterly put a pin in all of that.”
“The irony is there was nobody campaigning for One Course to get again extra than Liam,” Tomlinson stated. “I’d say I got here in a detailed second.” (Tomlinson and Payne rose to fame in 2010 as members of 1D alongside Harry Types, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan. The group went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016, one yr after Malik, now 32, left the band.)
Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson had been linked for all times by way of their stint in One Course, which turned one of the crucial profitable boy bands of all time. However their friendship wasn’t all the time smooth-sailing, with the late “Teardrops” singer admitting he and Tomlinson, 32, “hated” one another in the beginning of their boy band journey. Later, […]
Payne died in October 2024 on the age of 31 following a deadly fall from a balcony in Argentina. Along with sustaining a number of deadly accidents, Payne’s post-mortem revealed the presence of a combination of medicine in his system. (Payne struggled with substance abuse and had been to rehab a number of instances by way of the years.)
As for Tomlinson, he was driving in Los Angeles when he realized the information of Payne’s demise.
“I discovered by way of Niall,” Tomlinson stated of their former One Course bandmate. “I had the identical feeling that I had with [my sister] Félicité, and I feel anybody has this after they’re round somebody who’s struggling [of], ‘My 150 % wasn’t practically sufficient.’ That’s when it’s my very own conceitedness pondering that I may have helped often because it was a lot deeper than what I may have accomplished for him. He was undoubtedly struggling at the moment in his life.”
Tomlinson’s sister Félicité died following an unintentional overdose on the age of 18, two years after their mom, Johannah Deakin, misplaced her battle with leukemia on the age of 42.
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“I couldn’t imagine how deeply unfortunate we’d been as a household. Perhaps it’s not overly unusual, however on the time, I felt offended at life and I felt offended on behalf of my household,” Tomlinson stated on Wednesday. “I wouldn’t be pondering, ‘What have I accomplished to deserve this?’ It was extra [because my younger sisters] Daisy and Phoebe are so younger, and Lottie, as nicely. They’ve already had a lot to take care of. Why this and why now? It did really feel extremely, extremely unfair.”
Tomlinson additional defined that he was “apprehensive” about Félicité within the months previous her demise and initially “refused to compute” that she was gone.
“To lose my sister within the method that we did, despite the fact that I knew it wasn’t honest on myself, I felt completely responsible,” he recalled. “I felt powerless, and I felt like I’d let my sister and my mum down. My mum stated to me [in] the final couple of weeks of her life, ‘You higher promise me you’ll take care of your sisters.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, you recognize, in fact I’ll,’ and she or he was like ‘Particularly Félicité, you recognize she’s fragile.’”
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