Kate Cassidy Recalls Final Conversation With Liam Payne

Kate Cassidy has broken her silence on the final conversation she had with her late boyfriend, One Direction member Liam Payne.

The influencer, who dated Payne from 2022 until his death, was a recent guest on the podcast On Purpose With Jay Shetty and tearfully recounted the last seeing Payne. The British artist died last October after falling from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while intoxicated with alcohol and multiple drugs. Payne suffered from "multiple trauma" and "internal and external bleeding" after the fall, and five people have since been charged in his death.

Days before Payne died, Cassidy was with him in Argentina and prepared to return to Florida. But Cassidy struggled to leave him, looking forward to the couple beginning a new life together.

"On the last day in Argentina, my car was in the driveway, and we went back into the guest house, grabbed my suitcase and we were sitting on the couch and I just kept going on and on and on about how much I love him and how much he means to me," Cassidy said around the 36-minute mark.

She continued, "And he laughed and he interrupted me, and he just said, 'Kate, you’re gonna miss your flight, your car's in the driveway. You’re acting like this is the last time you’re ever gonna see me again.'"

Cassidy called the moment "chilling" but said that she "found peace" in their "last beautiful moment" together.

"I think when I think about the last day and the last words that we said to each other, it brings me this mixture of pain and peace," Cassidy said elsewhere. "We’d just bought a new house. We just got a dog. We just moved to America as well. ... It was just all these new beginnings, and it was in just such a positive light. "So I remember sitting there with him and I was going on and on and on, and saying to Liam how much I love him."

Cassidy often talks about her love for the late vocalist on social media and, last month, shared her struggle to accept that he's passed away.

"I'm still working on accepting the fact that he's not here anymore, so it's hard for me to refer to him in the past tense," Cassidy said on British talk show Lorraine in March.