Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy reveals the moment she learned the One Direction singer was dead: ‘Completely blacked out’

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Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, has opened up about the former One Direction singer’s shocking death. In her first interview since Payne’s sudden passing last October, Cassidy, 25, shared heart-wrenching details about how she learned that the star died, admitting she “completely blacked out.”“I feel blessed I didn’t find out over social media because I just couldn’t even imagine that,” Cassidy told The Sun. “I was in our home with our dog, scrolling TikTok and one of Liam’s friends called me.”But she can remember very little else of what happened after she picked up the call.“That moment, it’s like, blank; it’s blacked out in my head,” she shared. “I didn’t believe it at first.

I thought it was just a rumor. Or something that somebody made up just to get views. Then instantly I just had a bad feeling in my gut.

I was like, ‘Why would somebody make this up? Is this true?'”Cassidy admitted, “And I feel like I just completely blacked out.

When I officially found the news out to be true, I felt numb. I tried to call him. I called pretty much everybody.”“Then I was in touch with his family, and my mum got the first flight out to be with me.