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Louis Tomlinson opened up about grieving Liam Payne on One Direction’s 15th anniversary in a new interview with Rolling Stone U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “Naively, I thought that because at this point, I\u2019m relatively well versed in grief for my age, that it might soften the blow. [That was] super-naive. It\u2019s very different. I\u2019ve never lost a friend before,” Tomlinson said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Payne died at 31 on Oct. 16, 2024 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Louis Tomlinson<\/a> had a whole lot of history with his late friend Liam Payne.<\/p>\n In a new interview with Rolling Stone U.K.<\/a>, <\/em>Tomlinson<\/a>, 33, opened up about the 15th anniversary of One Direction’s formation, and the first without Payne.<\/p>\n “It was really uncomfortable, actually, the 15th anniversary, because the [collective] feeling to celebrate is as important, if not more important than ever, on behalf of Liam,” he told the outlet.<\/p>\n While Tomlinson<\/a> said he once felt “sick of nostalgia,” this anniversary without Payne was different. “You know, there\u2019s still a level in my head [where it feels] unjust and frustrating that he\u2019s not with us anymore. So, it just brought up those feelings, although I\u2019m still living with them anyway.”<\/p>\n “It was really, really, impossibly difficult for me to deal with losing Liam,” he added.<\/p>\n Tomlinson lost his mother, Johannah Deakin, to leukemia in 2016<\/a>, and his younger sister F\u00e9licit\u00e9 Tomlinson<\/a>, when she accidentally overdosed in 2019. “Naively, I thought that because at this point, I\u2019m relatively well versed in grief for my age, that it might soften the blow. Super-naive. It\u2019s very different. I\u2019ve never lost a friend before,” Tomlinson said of grief.<\/p>\n