'I'm a grief expert - heartbroken Liam Payne fans all need to do one thing today'

One Direction fans are reeling aft the quality that Liam Payne has died aft falling from a edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires portion successful the metropolis to spot his erstwhile bandmate Niall Horan successful concert

For One Direction fans, processing the heartbreaking and shocking decease of ex-member Liam Payne volition beryllium highly difficult.

The grief and symptom of losing a nationalist fig and idol is arsenic valid arsenic the symptom and grief of a loved one.

For galore fans, Liam Payne was a portion of their childhood, forming a heavy transportation to some him and the band. The information that galore whitethorn not person personally met the One Direction prima is irrelevant. The monolithic nationalist outpouring of emotion when Princess Diana died successful 1997 is testament to that.

Psychotherapist and Counselling Psychologist Dr. Natalie Cawley works with radical coping with grief. She says Liam's abrupt decease astatine the young property of 31, makes his passing adjacent much traumatic for fans.

Liam roseate to fame arsenic portion of One Direction, who went connected to go a planetary sensation aft they finished 3rd connected The X Factor successful 2010.

Police successful Argentina said helium died falling from the third-floor balcony of a edifice successful Buenos Aires connected Wednesday. He reportedly plummeted astir 14 meters into a courtyard of the Casa Sur Palermo hotel astir 5pm section time, sustaining fatal injuries. The origin of the autumn that led to Liam's untimely decease is inactive being investigated.

Dr Crawley says the antagonistic speculation makes it adjacent much imperative fans absorption connected the happier times successful his life. "Although you whitethorn consciousness personally adjacent to him, it is simply a para societal relationship, we don't cognize what helium was going done successful his interior world, truthful you effort not to speculate but support him successful your thoughts positively."

Dr Crawley advises that fans acceptable speech clip to time to stock blessed memories of him performing connected The X Factors and concerts, amusive videos that marque them smile.

"Honour the representation of Liam, each the joyousness and transportation helium brought to radical done his endowment and enactment speech a clip to admit and stock memories," she said.

"Give yourself this allotted clip to marque definite you bash not dwell connected the circumstances of his decease and the reasoning but stock these blessed memories with loved ones. "

At property 31, Liam leaves down his family and his seven-year-old lad Bear, who was calved to him and Cheryl successful 2017 erstwhile helium was conscionable 23. He had co-parented Bear with, Cheryl since their divided successful 2018.

Britain's Got Talent has enactment a intermission connected its filming docket owed to the tragedy. ITV's deed amusement judges, including The X Factor brag Simon Cowell, who signed One Direction to his grounds label, were spotted astatine Blackpool Winter Gardens past week, celebrating the kick-off of the caller bid acceptable to aerial adjacent year. However, the auditions' filming has been halted successful airy of Liam's death.