Liam Payne's Girlfriend Kate Cassidy Attends His Funeral After Calling Singer 'the Love of My Life'

Mar. 15, 2025

Cassidy, 25, attended Payne’s funeral on Wednesday, Nov. 20, arriving with the couple’s friendDamian Hurley. She was dressed in all black and wore black sunglasses.

She joined Payne’s family and friends — including hisOne DirectionbandmatesHarry Styles,Louis Tomlinson,Zayn MalikandNiall Horan— in laying the singer to rest at a service held in a 12th-century church in the English countryside northwest of London.

Kate Casside arrives at boyfriend Liam Payne’s funeral on Nov. 20.Mancpicss66 / SplashNews

Mancpicss66 / SplashNews

Cassidy and the “Strip That Down” singer were first linked in October 2022, and though they largely kept their relationship out of the spotlight, he occasionally appeared in photos and videos Cassidy shared to Instagram and TikTok.

Shortly after Payne’s death on Oct. 16, Cassidy revealed that the two had“manifested our lives together”just weeks earlier, posting a note on Instagram Payne had written that said he hoped to get engaged and marry Cassidy within the year.

Kate Cassidy and Damian Hurley arrive at Liam Payne’s funeral in England on Nov. 20.Mancpicss66 / SplashNews

“I keep your note close, even though you told me not to look at it. It said, ‘Me and Kate to marry within a year/engaged & together forever 444,'” she wrote in a message featured in herInstagram carousel.

Liam Payne and Kate Cassidy in December 2022 in London.Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis/Getty

Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis/Getty

Hurley, the 22-year-old model/filmmaker son of Elizabeth Hurley, also expressed his grief for Payne, calling him “one of the sweetest men I’ve ever met” in anInstagram post.

“a devastating loss. thinking of and sending love to Liam’s family, especially my beautiful friend @kateecass ❤︎⋆｡ﾟ☾,” he wrote.

A host of Payne’s other friends attended his funeral, includingSimon Cowell, who helped launch One Direction’s career onThe X Factorin 2010,James Cordenand exCheryl Cole, the mother of his 7-year-old son Bear.

Payne died on Oct. 16 in Buenos Aires, Argentina after falling from the balcony at his hotel. A preliminary autopsy report found he sustained multiple “internal and external” injuries in the fall, and the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office later said that he was“not fully consciousor was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall.”

source: people.com