Louis Tomlinson Admits He Was ‘Bitter’ About One Direction Breakup: ‘It Just Felt Like Another Loss To Me’

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Louis Tomlinson says One Direction’s split left him “mortified”. Opening up about the breakup in 2015, the musician said it took time for him to process the event. “When One Direction split up, I was mortified, I was absolutely gutted,” he recalled to The Times. “I was a bit bitter, I suppose because it just felt like another loss to me.

But I’ve a better understanding of things now, and there’s not as much anger. It is what it is.” The band was comprised of himself, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Liam Payne, and was originally formed on the U.K.

competition show “The X Factor” by judge Simon Cowell in 2010. They were an immediate smash hit, becoming a global sensation overnight. READ MORE: Louis Tomlinson Falls And Breaks Arm After NYC Concert, Forced To Cancel Events In 2015, it came crashing to a halt, however, when the band announced they were going on hiatus.

The following year, Tomlinson’s mother Johannah Deakin died from leukemia. Two years later, his 18-year-old sister Félicité died from overdose.