Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, has opened up about the former One Direction singer’s shocking death. In her first interview since Payne’s sudden passing last October, Cassidy, 25, shared heart-wrenching details about how she learned that the star died, admitting she “completely blacked out.”

Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy has reflected on the moment she learned of the singer’s death and also said that “it still doesn’t feel fully real for me that he’s not here”. One Direction star Payne died aged 31 on October 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.