Louis Tomlinson

I don't stay close to tabloid stuff.

I had known Liam, but Liam hadn't spoken to me about these things.

I'd met you, we'd hang out for a couple of days at Soccer Aid.

I had no idea.

Yeah, okay.

And it was only in researching your story and your background and understanding where you've come from and really what inspires a lot of the music and different things like that that I started to understand these things.

So you're certainly not someone that carries yourself with any particular identity.

Really, that one could discern other than just being a normal guy.

And the other thing that connects us is it was Liam.

And I think it would have been Liam's birthday a couple of days ago.

His birthday was three days off mine.

So his 29th of August, I believe, and mine's the 26th.

And we both knew him a little bit.

You knew him an awful lot.

And he passed away while on holiday in Argentina.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, I just couldn't believe it.

And you to him, because he had told me, he talked about you all the time.

Through the pandemic, I know you were doing things together, doing sort of these sort of live shows and stuff.

And he would talk about you as if you were his best friend in the band all the time.