Liam Payne's girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, has finally spoken out after his untimely death at the age of 31. "Thank you for all the kind words and love that have been sent my way. I have been completely devastated," she wrote on her Instagram Story on Friday. "The past few days have felt utterly surreal."
"I ask and pray that you'll grant me the grace and space to navigate this in private," she continued. "Liam, my angel. You were everything to me. I want you to know that I loved you unconditionally and completely. I will continue to love you for the rest of my life. I love you, Liam."
Cassidy, 25, had traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina with the musician, but returned to Florida alone just two days before he fell from his third-floor hotel balcony, suffering a fractured skull and dying instantly from "very serious injuries."
Weeks prior, the couple had attended a performance by his former One Direction bandmate, Niall Horan, on October 2. "We're going to Argentina," Payne had said in an Instagram Story. "One, because we want to. Two, because we want to. And three, because Niall Horan's playing down there and I think we might just go and say hello."
The late singer also mentioned that he and Horan had "things to square up" as it had been a while since they last spoke.
Payne and Cassidy, who had been staying at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, had been together for two years. Cassidy shared online that their stay in Buenos Aires was longer than planned, turning what was supposed to be a short visit into a two-week vacation.
"I was so ready to leave, honestly, love South America but I hate staying in one place for too long," Cassidy revealed in a TikTok video. "We were supposed to be there for like, five days [then] it turned into two weeks and I was just like, 'I need to go home.'"
Cassidy admitted she left Payne in Argentina because she had purchased a new travel pillow since the late singer used her other one.
The couple was first seen together at a London Halloween party in 2022 when they dressed up as Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson. They later appeared on romantic outings and at red-carpet events, including the premiere of former One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson's documentary in 2023.
Cassidy revealed that she met Payne at a bar in Charleston, South Carolina while working as a waitress. "On the way to work my manager texted me and was like 'Liam Payne from One Direction is here, you're going to be taking care of him tonight,'" she said in a TikTok video uploaded on September 20.
Payne repeatedly asked Cassidy to join him at his table and requested her number, according to the influencer. Eventually, they went out for lunch, bowling, and a ghost tour the next day.
Payne was previously engaged to model Maya Henry from 2020 to 2021 and shares a 7-year-old son, Bear, with British singer Cheryl Cole.
Before Payne's death, the manager of CasaSur Palermo Hotel made an emergency call, alleging that Payne was "putting his life at risk." The manager, "Esteban," claimed that Payne was destroying his hotel room and was under the influence of "drugs and alcohol."
First responders arrived after receiving an emergency call late on Wednesday, but medical officials stated that there was nothing they could do. "Our role was to head there quickly, give medical attention, and try to resuscitate him, but his injuries were incompatible with life," Buenos Aires emergency services chief, Alberto Crescenti, said, according to La Nacion. "Based on what the team saw, there was apparently a cranial fracture and extremely serious injuries that led to his immediate death."
"The team could do absolutely nothing," Crescenti continued. "There was no resuscitation because it was confirmed that he had died. The whole body had very serious injuries."
Source link: https://nypost.com
