From left: Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson at the 2016 Brit Awards. Ian Gavan/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Nearly one year after Liam Payne died, his former One Direction bandmate Louis Tomlinson is opening up about Payne's death. "It was really, really, impossibly difficult for me to deal with losing Liam," Tomlinson told Rolling Stone UK in an interview published on Tuesday.