Liam Payne’s sister Nicola pays tribute to ‘angel’ who ‘lived for making people smile and happy’

Liam Payne‘s grief-stricken sister has paid a heartbreaking tribute to the One Direction star saying he ‘lived for making people smile’.

Nicola Payne said in a tearjerking post on Instagram that she ‘went cold’ when she found out her sibling had died in a hotel balcony fall in Argentina.

She said she had spent the last few days hoping it was a mistake as she struggled to come to terms with Liam’s tragic death. 

Nicola shared family snaps as well as one of Liam, 31, on stage with his 1D bandmates alongside an emotional tribute as she said: ‘You were truly too good for this earth, you are an angel who just lived for making people smile and happy.’ 

The 36-year-old told how Liam had always shown kindness to everyone he met and his family were his ‘biggest fans always and forever’. 

She shared a heartbreaking tribute to her younger brother Liam calling him an ‘angel’ 

She shared a family photo of them all smiling into the camera and said they were his ‘biggest fans’ 

‘When I saw the news pop up on my phone that you had left us I went cold,’ she said.

‘I wanted so much for this to be untrue. I have spent days hoping that it was a mistake and somebody has got it wrong.’

She added that she had been looking back at his excited messages from the night before his niece was born.

Nicola ended the post by writing: ‘I hope you have finally found peace up there and that you’ll continue to look after us all as you have done in life. We will make sure Bear knows about his daddy and how much you loved him, we promise this. 

‘See you soon Liam, Love You xx.’ 

Two days ago Liam’s other sister Ruth paid her own heartbreaking tribute as she thanked him for ‘changing my life’ and for ‘being the best brother and friend I’ll ever have’.

Nicola and Ruth are Liam’s two older sisters, making him the youngest of three siblings in the tight-knit family, who last week said they were ‘heartbroken’ by his death. 

Ruth wrote on her Instagram: ‘I don’t believe this is happening. Many times I have poured my heart out publicly with pride about Liam but never much about life as his sister.

‘Liam is my best friend, no one could ever make me laugh as much as him, doing his impressions always had me creasing and he loved seeing how much of a laugh he could get.’

Nicola shared family snaps as well as one of Liam, 31, on stage with 1D alongside an emotional tribute as she said: ‘You were truly too good for this earth, you are an angel who just lived for making people smile and happy’

Nicola said she had been looking back at his excited messages from the night before his niece was born

Liam is pictured with his mother, father and two sisters. The singer’s family paid tribute to the 31-year-old last weej, saying they were ‘heartbroken’ following his death

Liam Payne ‘s heartbroken sister Ruth shared this previously unseen picture of her and her brother following his death last week

Liam had two older sisters, Nicola and Ruth, making him the youngest of three siblings. Liam is pictured with Ruth on her wedding day in 2022

 

In an emotional tribute on Instagram, the singer’s older sister Ruth revealed she is ‘struggling’ to cope with the loss of her ‘best friend’

Ruth revealed she learned how to drive after Liam got through to the X Factor live shows when he was 17 as she ‘couldn’t stand the thought of not being able to get to him’.

She continued: ‘I would regularly drive to have tea with him after I finished work, just to sit around. One month the hotel was right by a wagamamas and I swear he had it morning, noon and night!

‘I used to love picking him up from work when it all started especially after concerts, speeding us away from venues and appearances, Liam plugging in his phone to show me the new songs for his albums.

‘Liam loved 1D, he loved his brothers and we talked about it so much. He would just play song after song that had been recorded but never used and we’d sit having a mini 1D concert.

‘Liam knew he could call me anytime, any day and I would pick up or that I would always fetch him if he needed to just come home. Our calls would often result in me laughing at his ideas and next adventure, talking through his plans and working through his issues but it would always end with “love you miss you” “love you ru”.

‘Liam was born with music in his veins, it was clear from a very young age he just had that quality that would make him a star. I could sit and listen to him sing all day, which is a good job really because he never bloody stopped!

‘I will never tire of the look he gives when showing new songs, ‘listen loud’ he’d say and just grin with pride of his work.

‘I keep notes on my phone “things to tell Liam” so that if he was away working for a while, I’d know what I needed to update him on. I suppose it’s only right I tell him now.’

Speaking to her brother directly, she continued: ‘Liam, my brain is struggling to catch up with what’s happening and I don’t understand where you’ve gone.

‘What I do love most about you is your ability to make me laugh, I never chuckle as much as I do when I’m with you with anyone else.

Police and prosecutors in Argentina investigating the tragedy at the Casa Sur Hotel are treating Liam’s death as ‘inconclusive’

Lead investigator, Prosecutor Marcelo Roma, has called for histopathological, biochemical and toxicological studies to be carried out, to confirm whether the musician was drugged and intoxicated.

With those results expected to take between 10 to 15 days, Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office is currently treating his death as ‘inconclusive’, it has emerged 

‘I don’t feel this world was good enough or kind enough to you, and quite often over the last few years, you’ve had to really try hard to overcome all that was being aimed at you.

‘You just wanted to be loved and to make people happy with your music. You never believed you were good enough, I hope you can now see this outpouring of love that you never received in your time.

‘I’m sorry I couldn’t save you. One last time I need you to know, I’m here if you need anything, I’d drive to the end of the universe to bring you back.’

Police and prosecutors in Argentina investigating the tragedy at the Casa Sur Hotel are treating it as an ‘inconclusive death’.

A post-mortem examination has determined that the One Direction star died from multiple injuries after the fall from the third floor balcony of his suite.

But lead investigator, Prosecutor Marcelo Roma, has called for histopathological, biochemical and toxicological studies to be carried out, to confirm whether the musician was drugged and intoxicated.

With those results expected to take between 10 to 15 days, Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office is currently treating his death as ‘inconclusive’, it has emerged.

Geoff Payne, the father of former One Direction singer Liam Payne, visits a memorial outside the Casa Sur Hotel where the British pop singer fell to his death from a hotel balcony, in Buenos Aires

Liam’s grief-stricken father was seen kissing pictures of his son at a makeshift shrine made by fans outside the hotel where the One Direction singer died

He is said to have flown to the country to organise the repatriation of his son, the Associated Press has reported

Liam is pictured with his parents after the X Factor final in 2010

His father Geoff has travelled to the Argentine capital to visually confirm the body is his son’s and to arrange for its repatriation back to the UK once it is released by the authorities. His funeral is expected to take place in November.

The grief-stricken father was seen last week kissing photos of his beloved son at a makeshift shrine made by fans outside the hotel where he died.

He was photographed visiting tributes and reading letters laid out by fans. He also thanked fans for being there.

The singer’s family paid tribute to Liam last Thursday. They said they were ‘heartbroken’ following his death, adding: ‘Liam will forever live in our hearts and we’ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul.’

The singer was pronounced dead at the scene after falling 45ft from the balcony of the hotel in Buenos Aires.

Tributes flooded in for the popstar from millions of friends and fans of Liam, including the mother of his child Cheryl Cole.

The Girls Aloud singer was previously in a relationship with him for two years, with the pair welcoming Bear Grey into the world on March 22, 2017.

The grieving mother has taken to Instagram telling of her anguish as she tries ‘navigate this earth shattering event’.

Her statement read: ‘As I try to navigate this earth shattering event, and work through my own grief at this indescribably painful time. 

‘I’d like to kindly remind everyone that we have lost a human being.

‘Liam was not only a pop star and celebrity, he was a son, a brother, an uncle, a dear friend and a father to our seven year old son.

‘A son that now has to face the reality of never seeing his father again.’