Louis Tomlinson

So your, your father wasn't around.

He, your biological father left soon after you were born.

Yeah, it's not really something I speak loads about, but I'm happy to.

Yeah, he wasn't involved in my life at all.

I've met him like three times ever.

So your mother played, I guess, several roles in your life.

Yeah, my mum was always really good at that.

I think she realised the fact that my dad wasn't going to be around, that she had to play dad as well.

And she had this kind of mischievous instinct in her mum and definitely kind of inspired some of that.

And part of that was her being her, but part of that was also trying to play that kind of dad role, you know, where you kind of lark about and...

encouraged to do kind of silly things that aren't going to hurt, you know.

She was just, like, I could get emotional.

She's just the best woman I ever knew, definitely.

And also just I feel so vitally, like, lucky to be able to have her as my mentor because she just, everything that I look to in, like, friends and partners, et cetera, they're the kind of things that she embodied, really.

And you had siblings.

Lots of them.

Yeah, lots of them.

So when I grew up, I kind of like the bulk of my childhood.

There was seven of us living in a three bed house.

I've got a little bit better at it.