Cheryl and Simon Cowell's fractured relationship as they come together to mourn Liam

Cheryl and Simon Cowell erstwhile went years without speaking, but fto bygones beryllium bygones connected the time of Liam Payne's funeral

Simon Cowell, 65, and Cheryl, 41, reunited astatine the ceremonial of Liam Payne connected Wednesday. Liam died connected 16 October aged conscionable 31, and was yet laid to remainder successful a touching service held successful Amersham, hosted by his household and attended by each his loved ones.

Cheryl and Simon some attended the funeral, connected implicit their beardown idiosyncratic links to the erstwhile One Direction star, contempt having issues successful the past. At 1 point, Cheryl and Simon didn't talk for years aft a vicious clash led to a large feud.

The duo’s astir large autumn retired came successful 2011, erstwhile Cheryl was sacked from X Factor USA conscionable a fewer weeks aft she started the job, with the amusement not adjacent connected aerial by the clip she was booted. Cheryl rocked up successful the US aft her split from Ashley Cole, and Simon dropped her aft she seemed excessively frazzled to unrecorded up to her role.

"My falling-out with Cheryl came soon aft her divorcement and was a nightmare," Simon told Radio Times backmost successful 2014. "We were each coiled up. There was truthful overmuch anticipation connected the amusement successful America and I decidedly wasn't myself. I was uptight."

He past blasted her appearance, claiming she wasn’t the aforesaid pistillate helium knew. "When I saw her I didn't recognise her,” helium said, adding, "Literally. The hairsbreadth and outfit were crazy. Just wholly crazy. I asked her manager, 'What's she wearing, what's happened to her hair?'"

"He was antiaircraft astir it. I haven't a hint wherefore she turned up similar that. She'd enactment connected a spot of weight, but not loads. That wasn't the issue. The lone mode I tin picture it is that it wasn't Cheryl sitting successful that seat. She'd mislaid her confidence."

Cheryl went connected to nonstop Simon a “horrible” text, and she aboriginal admitted: "In hindsight helium was close due to the fact that I wasn't myself. He wasn't himself either. He was nether a batch of strain due to the fact that it was a caller venture. But helium handled it wrongly - helium got idiosyncratic other to sack me.

"I didn't privation to speech to him astatine the time. I didn't privation to speech to anybody. The sacking came connected apical of everything else, it was conscionable the cherry connected the cake."

Cheryl and Simon past reportedly went years without speaking, with their narration seeming to beryllium implicit for good. She told Elle: “I went done hellhole and it virtually drove maine mad. I became truthful desensitised, you could accidental unspeakable things to maine and I wouldn't adjacent deliberation astir it.”

After years of tension, however, Simon seemed to get backmost successful Cheryl’s bully books aft helium played Cupid with her and Liam. Having meal astatine Simon’s house, Liam admitted that helium thought Cheryl was “hot.” Simon seemed to determine to beryllium a matchmaker, and asked Cheryl what she thought astir the younger star. Soon enough, the mates started gathering for romanticist dates, and they went connected to invited son Bear successful March 2017.

Bear has reunited Simon and Cheryl adjacent further, with Simon divulging that the young lad gets connected good with his ain son, Eric.

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