{"id":330113,"date":"2026-03-05T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:33:14","slug":"harry-styles-says-he-struggles-to-speak-about-former-bandmate-liam-paynes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330113\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles says he struggles to speak about former bandmate Liam Payne\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former One Direction star Harry Styles has said he struggles to speak about the death of bandmate Liam Payne.<\/p>\n

It comes as the 32-year-old prepares to release his fourth studio album, Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally, on Friday, which he said was inspired by moments when his favourite artists had to \u201cdiscover themselves\u201d and where they were \u201cvulnerable\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked about Payne\u2019s death by Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe, Styles said: \u201cFull transparency, it\u2019s like something that I, even the idea of talking about it, I struggle with that a little bit even.<\/p>\n

\"HarryHarry Styles recently performed at the Brit Awards (Doug Peters\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there was a period when he passed away, where I really struggled with kind of like acknowledging how strange it is to have people kind of like own part of your grief in a way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have such strong feelings around my friend passing away, and then suddenly being, you know, like aware of there\u2019s maybe like a desire from other people of you to convey that in some way, or it means you\u2019re not feeling what you\u2019re feeling or something, you know?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so difficult to lose a friend. It\u2019s difficult to lose any friend, but it\u2019s so difficult to lose a friend who is so like you in so many ways. It\u2019s like, I saw someone with the kindest heart who just wanted to be great.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really important moment for me in terms of taking a look at my life and being able to say to myself, \u2018OK, what do I want to do with my life? How do I want to live my life?\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think the greatest way you can honour your friends who pass away is by living your life to the fullest. Like super special person and really sad.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LiamLiam Payne died in 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n

Payne died at the age of 31 in October 2024 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina, and the boyband\u2019s surviving members, Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, reunited at his funeral alongside former manager Simon Cowell in November that year.<\/p>\n

Styles said that his time out between Kiss All The Time, Disco, Occasionally, and previous record Harry\u2019s House (2022) allowed him to reflect on his career as he turned 30.<\/p>\n

The singer added: \u201cI\u2019ve always had the conversation with myself about if I ever checked in with myself and was like, \u2018I don\u2019t love it, it\u2019s not fun anymore\u2019, then I kind of just made a promise to myself that I wouldn\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair in a lot of ways, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to me, I really don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to the fans for me to not do it, (not) really be there anymore, but doing it because it\u2019s just what I\u2019ve always done.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think what has been interesting is kind of allowing myself to even have that thought process. I think for a long time even having that conversation with myself, I thought like, \u2018oh you\u2019re so ungrateful like how can you ever think about deciding not to do it\u2019, and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full interview can be heard on Apple Music\u2019s The Zane Lowe Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former One Direction star Harry Styles has said he struggles to speak about the death of bandmate Liam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-330113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}