Liam Payne tragically died at the age of 31 in October last year, with his bandmate Louis Tomlinson saying the star was the driving force behind wanting a One Direction reunion
One Direction have ruled out an Oasis style reunion following the death of Liam Payne. Bandmate Louis Tomlinson believes the surviving quartet could not get back together without their late brother.
Louis explained: “Never say never, right, but I’m just not sure it would be right to him. Say for the sake of argument, 25 years’ time, it’s like a f***** Oasis thing, they offer us an arm and a leg, and they’re like, ‘Come back and do this many shows’.
“It’s just completely put a pin in all of that. And the irony is, there was no one campaigning for One Direction to get back more than Liam… I would say he [Liam] was the closest to being my brother.”
In an interview on The Diary Of A CEO, with host Steven Bartlett, Louis admitted he is “still unpacking” One Direction’s split in 2016 and “realising that the only way is down from here” as a solo artist.
He also reflected on losing his mother Johannah Deakin to leukaemia in 2016, and recalled performing on the X Factor three days after her death, at her request.
He said: “I knew why she was telling me. She was telling me because she would’ve hated if something that happened to her affected my life and my career.
“I would do it again for her. I don’t think I’ll ever have a more challenging time in my life than those three and a half minutes on stage. I did it only for her.”
He also tragically lost younger sister, Félicité a few years later.
He said: “I couldn’t believe how deeply unlucky we’d been as a family. I felt angry at life and I felt angry on behalf of my family… I felt like I’d let my sister and my mum down.
“My mum said to me, the last couple of weeks of her life, she was like, ‘You better promise me you’ll look after your sisters… Especially Félicité, you know she’s fragile’.”
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