Kate Cassidy opened up about the ‘long, heartfelt’ goodbye she shared with Liam Payne before his tragic death last year.
The 26-year-old influencer revealed in an emotional TikTok video that she left Argentina to return to the US just days before the former One Direction star fell from his hotel balcony on October 16.
Looking back on their last meeting, she said it still feels “weird” to think about how much time she spent expressing her feelings for him.
“I don’t come here to cry – I honestly feel extremely numb today,” she said.
“I wanted to express how important it is to remind your loved ones how much you love them. You never know what tomorrow will bring.”
Kate started to cry as she remembered sitting with Liam before her flight. “I just wanted to tell him how much I’m going to miss him, how much I love him.
He looked at me and said, ‘Kate, you’re going to miss your flight. You act like this is the last time you’ll ever see me again.’ And I didn’t know it was literally that way.
She said she was grateful that their final moments were filled with love, adding, “I’m so glad Liam and I had that final goodbye the way it was.”
However, the late star’s girlfriend recently opened up about her deep struggle following his death, telling Page Six that grief left her unable to “live.” [her] life” until she slowly started focusing on her mental health again, setting the alarm to wake up earlier, exercise and eat clean.
“Being active always keeps my mind much healthier,” she said.
