LIAM Payne’s grieving sister has shared a heartbreaking post where she admitted the late star is “missing so much” after his tragic death.
One Direction star Liam, 31, died after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires in October last year.
Last night, Ruth posted an emotional tribute to her beloved brother.
She shared a sweet snap of her and Liam along with their other sibling Nicola, from a 2019 Facebook post to celebrate his solo album being released.
Heartbroken Nicola wrote: “Tonight at midnight my brother’s first solo album comes out.
“At 14 years old Liam set off to become a singer. He joined a band at 16 and the last 10 years has been on the most mad career path ever!”
Continuing, she wrote: “We as a family have stood side stage for the last 10 years cheering him on.
“All hoping that one day he would get his own album out and showcase just how talented he is, when I finally get in my car tomorrow and press play on the album I will feel so proud of his achievement,,.. I only wish my drive to work was longer than a couple of songs.”
Ruth captioned the post: “Oh mate, the best was yet to come. You’re missing so much.”
REMEMBERING LIAM
Liam’s grieving sister’s latest post comes just a few weeks after she remembered her brother, one year on from his funeral.
She commemorated the difficult day with a sweet snap of the two of them together as kids.
Alongside the post, Ruth wrote: “A year ago today, the hardest goodbye I’ll ever have, a funeral I should never have had to plan and every day since, I should have never had to live without him.
“Missing him now is part of breathing, it doesn’t get easier, that’s just a lie to make it feel better: Infinite love, infinite loss.”
Ruth also paid tribute on the one year anniversary of Liam’s death.
In an open letter to him, a devastated Ruth wrote: “I underestimated grief, woah, did I underestimate it. I am paralysed by it daily.
“I thought I had felt it before but I know the losses before you were just intense sadness, you are the loss of my life, the one person who l will miss at every single occasion in my life.
“I’d taken for granted that my little brother would be there through life.
“You shouldn’t have died.”
FAMILY LIFE ‘EXTINGUISHED’
Ruth also revealed she’s been having a recurring nightmare that places her in Liam’s hotel room moments before his death on that fateful night.
She said, in it, Liam “can’t hear me screaming for you, my brain is locked on your last minutes on this earth, the unaccounted minutes, the minutes I will never have the answers to, the minutes that changed everything.”
Ruth also said that the life of the Payne family has been “extinguished” and is “impossible to mend”.
She continued: “You died which is something that happened, but your absence is something that happens to me everyday before I even open my eyes.”
In gut-wrenching paragraphs she details how she’d love to spend just five more minutes with him and the things she would tell him, from catching up on plans, to listening to the birds and swapping jokes.
Ending her letter to Liam, she asks people to remember that there is a family at the heart of the story who have lost someone very dear to them.
She says: “Whilst I am still on my knees struggling to regain balance since my world burned down and every time I try to take a step, something comes and sets fire to all the progress I thought I had made in my mind, in trying to understand where or why Liam isn’t here helping me through this.
“Everyone only seems interested in the public side of this, some sadly seem more interested in the fame they can gain off this, but on the human side people need to remember when they speak, there is a son without his Dad, parents without their child and I am lost without my brother.
“Love always Liam, in every lifetime.”
TRAGIC LOSS
Liam died shortly after 5pm on October 16, 2024. when he fell from his hotel balcony.
Liam, who’s the dad of seven-year-old Bear, shared a post on Snapchat only minutes before his death and showed him and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy looking into a mirror.
The singer-songwriter was staying at Hotel CasaSur in the neighbourhood of Palermo.
Liam had flown to Argentina with girlfriend Kate Cassidy for a five-day holiday, to see his ex-1D bandmate Niall Horan in concert.
Liam extended the trip but Kate returned home to the US.
An autopsy confirmed he died from multiple trauma and internal and external bleeding.
A toxicology report revealed alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant, which would have left him severely impaired.
Liam’s Last Days
By Scarlet Howes
SEPTEMBER 20: Liam and his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, arrive in Argentina for a five-day holiday.
OCTOBER 2: The star goes to see ex-bandmate Niall Horan while he is on tour, telling fans on Snapchat: “It’s been a while since me and Niall have spoken. We’ve got a lot to talk about.”
OCTOBER 12: Kate flies back home to Florida after two weeks away, leaving Liam in Argentina.
She tells her followers on TikTok: “Love South America, but I hate staying in one place for too long and we were supposed to be there for five days, turned into two weeks and I was just like, ‘I need to go home’.”
OCTOBER 13: Liam checks into the CasaSur Palermo Hotel alone three days before he died. He was reportedly asked to leave his previous hotel.
OCTOBER 15: Hours before his death, he spends some time with Aldana Serrano, 31, and Lucila Goitea, 27, who arrived at the hotel at about 11.30am local time and left at 4pm, just one hour before he died.
At about 5pm, Liam is said to have been arguing over money with a mystery woman in the lobby, before falling 45ft and landing in the inner courtyard of the hotel.