Louis Tomlinson will "never accept" Liam Payne's death. A year after Liam tragically passed away in Buenos Aires, Argentina, his One Direction bandmate is reflecting on the difficulty of his loss. During an interview with The Independent published on Saturday, Louis reflected on the loss he'd experienced prior to Liam's death: "I naively thought that, at this point, I'd unfortunately be a little bit more well-versed with grief than other people my age. I thought that might mean something, but it didn't at all.