Fans of Liam Payne have shared moving tributes to the One Direction star as they marked the first anniversary of his death on Thursday, Daily Mail reports.
The singer died aged 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina in October 2024, and a subsequent toxicology report revealed alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system.
Longtime fans of Liam’s took to X to share their own tributes to him, stating that despite his tragic death, ‘his voice left a mark that will never fade.’
Posts included: ‘Gone too soon, his voice and energy left a mark that’ll never fade, rest easy Liam, your music still speaks loud;
‘I will always love and miss you, thank you for everything, RIP angel; Damn it’s been a year already?
‘Forever in our hearts, his music will always be with me;
‘A year has passed, you would think that time, would help you cope with the grief better, but for me at least, ths doesn’t feel any easier. Some days the grief feels so overwhelming. I miss Liam every single day I miss him so much;
‘Still deeply missed today; He’s looking up at the rest of the boys and he’s so proud I know it;
‘I can’t believe it’s been a YEAR already, I can still remember so vividly the feeling on my stomach and my heart beating like crazy when I found out 🙁 and it still doesn’t feel real, I never met him and yet somehow I feel like a big part of me is missing;
‘We’re losing too many young people to drugs and mental health issues, bro was a legend for as long as he was with us;’
The bandmates of Liam Payne had shared their own respective tributes to their pal in the wake of his death last year, and a month later they bandmates reunited at his funeral for the first time since their split in 2016.
Last week Liam’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy also revealed how she ‘didn’t want to live’ following his death.
She slipped into a two-month depression after the One Direction singer’s tragic passing.
‘I was always just kind of doing nothing and just dealing with that grief and pain,’ she told Page Six, adding she was ‘just not wanting to really live my life.’
After several weeks, she said, ‘I finally realized, ok, I need to live my life, I need to get up, get out of bed.’
Kate said she started by setting an alarm to get out of bed one hour earlier day after day.
She then began ‘working out,’ ‘eating clean,’ and living her life not only for herself, but for Liam Payne.
As Liam Payne died without leaving a will, he was declared intestate, which means as an unmarried parent his estate is shared between any children.
It is therefore likely that the fortune Liam made during his boyband years and which, despite his drug and alcohol addictions, he managed to cling on to, will be placed in a trust for his eight-year-old son Bear.
Daily Mail revealed in May that Liam’s ex Cheryl was tasked with safeguarding his fortune until their son Bear is older.
Friends of the former boyband star expressed how he was adamant to make sure his only son would be well looked after in the event anything happened to him.
Payne left a total of £28,595,000, which was later reduced to £24,280,000 after his expenses and debts were paid, according to court documents.
‘It is a small consolation that Bear will never want for anything, that he will at least benefit from that,’ a source close to the late singer said.
The source added: ‘Liam had some very sensible people around him for a time and he adored Bear so much. He always wanted to do the right thing by him financially.’
Liam’s estate was published as a limited Ad Colligenda Bona grant, which is commonly applied for during the sale of a deceased person’s property, where the deceased’s executors may have found a buyer for the property shortly after the death.
Cheryl was named in the legal documents alongside Richard Bray, a top music lawyer with a track record of representing stars including Ed Sheeran.
In October, fans of Liam were left stunned by his sudden death from a third floor balcony fall at the Casa Sur Hotel in Argentina.
His medical cause of death has been confirmed to be ‘polytrauma’, a term which means a person has multiple traumatic injuries to their body.
Five people have been charged over the singer’s death in Argentina after he plunged from a third-floor balcony.
The hotel’s manager, a receptionist and a friend of Payne have been charged with manslaughter, Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office previously said in a statement.