Liam Payne and Cheryl Cole's relationship timeline and real reason they split after Bear

One Direction prima Liam Payne and Cheryl were unneurotic for 2 and a fractional years earlier they split.

The erstwhile X Factor vocalist devastatingly died connected Wednesday aft plunging from the 3rd level of a boutique edifice successful Argentina portion connected vacation with his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy. The mates were successful Buenos Aires to ticker Liam's ex-1D bandmate, Niall Horan perform.

It's believed Liam fell from astir 14 metres and suffered "very superior injuries incompatible with life". A assemblage was recovered successful an interior patio of the Casa Sur Palermo edifice soon aft 5pm section time. The circumstances starring to his decease are presently unknown.

Liam is survived by his loved ones and seven-year-old lad Bear, whom helium welcomed with ex Cheryl backmost successful 2017, a twelvemonth earlier they announced their split. Liam was 23 erstwhile helium became a dada and 31 erstwhile helium sadly died. Here, we look backmost astatine their relationship...

Meeting connected The X Factor

2008: A floppy-haired Liam wowed the judges astatine the 2008 X Factor auditions with his rendition of Fly Me To The Moon. He was 14, his aboriginal emotion was 10 years older. "I similar you, I deliberation you're truly cute," she tells him aft Simon Cowell knocks his deficiency of 'fun'. "You've got charisma, you gave america that small cheeky wink!"

2010: Liam returns to The X Factor and blows the judges away, 2 years aft his archetypal audition. A beaming Cheryl tells him afterwards: "You've decidedly got it. Whatever it is, you've got it. And your dependable is truly powerful." He gets done arsenic a subordinate of the freshly formed One Direction and is enactment successful Simon's category.

Cheryl, meanwhile, is recovering from malaria and linked to her Parachute creation spouse Derek Hough successful the aftermath of her heartbreaking divorcement from Ashley Cole.

Reunion and emotion blossoms

2015: Cheryl and Liam reunite astatine The X Factor last erstwhile One Direction appears for 1 of their past performances earlier their hiatus. The brace are spotted hugging during an advertisement break, but the pictures don't travel to airy for a fewer much weeks.

2016: Cheryl files for divorcement from her French husband, citing irreconcilable differences successful the authoritative paperwork. Her decree nisi won't travel done until October, but she starts making plans arsenic a azygous woman.

Liam shares a drawback of his caller manus tattoo, and everyone thinks thing of it. But aboriginal it'll look evident that the singer's inking is simply a wide tribute to Cheryl's present infamous bum tattoo – besides a rose. Amid speculation Cheryl and Liam mightiness beryllium getting person successful the aftermath of their respective splits, Liam posts a representation of a roseate connected his Instagram, captioning it: "Happy Valentine's Day baby."

News of their narration breaks and radical respond strangely to it – not everyone believes they're real, until 2 days aboriginal erstwhile Liam changes his Instagram illustration representation to 1 of the 2 of them.

Instagram official

2016: Liam yet shares a representation of him and Cheryl looking couple-y connected his Insta. One week later, helium posts another, older drawback of Cheryl and wishes her a blessed International Women's Day, telling his fans that she's his "favourite pistillate successful the world" and saying helium hopes helium makes her arsenic blessed arsenic she makes him.

Cheryl is forced to contradict reports she cheated connected Jean-Bernard with Liam towards the extremity of her marriage. She tweets: "If anybody believes the s**t they're speechmaking contiguous you truly don't cognize maine astatine all."

Chiam, arsenic the brace person been dubbed, marque their first authoritative reddish carpet quality astatine Cannes. They look smitten with each different connected the reddish carpet, and stock much of their backstage snaps connected their respective societal accounts.

Cheryl parts from her absorption institution Modest Management amid rumours she's looking to motorboat her solo comeback successful aboriginal 2017. Modest besides looked aft One Direction until they parted ways successful January 2016.

The mates marque an quality astatine a Christmas carol performance successful London - and Cheryl wears a khaki greenish formal that shows her salient bump. Twitter explodes with rumours and speculation that Chiam volition denote their blessed news, but the brace don't accidental a azygous connection to the awaiting paps.

Cheryl falls pregnant

2016: It's official! Cheryl reportedly confirms her gestation to friends and family, but sources adjacent to her accidental she won't beryllium making a nationalist statement. On March 25, 2017, Cheryl announces that she's fixed commencement to her and Liam's kid together, with a representation of Liam holding the baby. They spell connected to sanction him Bear, but - mindful of his presumption arsenic a personage kid - take not to stock immoderate pictures of his face.

She wrote: "On Wednesday 22nd March Liam and I became parents to an incredibly beautiful, steadfast babe boy, weighing 7lb 9 and looking similar a dream. Although helium inactive doesn't person a sanction helium is already stealing hearts. We are each madly successful emotion and overwhelmingly blessed with our small arrival. Happy Mother's Day to each the mothers astir the world. A time that present has a antithetic meaning to maine forever."

Relationship problems

2017: After a summertime of promotional interviews to propulsion his archetypal solo album, Liam revealed astatine the Pride of Britain Awards that helium wasn't going to beryllium spending overmuch clip with Cheryl and Bear implicit Christmas owed to enactment commitments.

He told The Mirror: "Cheryl is astatine location with him [Bear] present and my parents are connected the mode over, they're going to walk a week with america which is truly bully due to the fact that I'm not going to get to spot them overmuch successful December truthful I told them they should travel backmost and bent retired with us."

2018: Just 11 months aft Bear's arrival, quality breaks that the mates are reportedly having problems owed to not spending capable clip together. Liam was distant moving a batch and Cheryl was astatine location bringing up their lad alone.

"There are precise existent strains of trying to accommodate to parenthood whilst being successful the spotlight and having to look arsenic though everything is rosy each of the time," a root told the Daily Mail. "It's is just to accidental astatine the infinitesimal determination is simply a batch of unit connected some her and Liam. Being isolated isn't helping that."

Bold statement

Despite not commenting connected the divided rumours, the mates marque a precise nationalist connection by attending the Brit Awards together. During a unrecorded TV interrogation with Liam and big Jack Whitehall, Cheryl reveals her 'safe word' successful sex, overmuch to the astonishment of adjacent Liam himself. Chiam spell each retired connected the reddish carpet with a earnestly loved-up display, but are pictured looking glum arsenic they permission the bash.

That aforesaid year, Liam admitted helium and Cheryl were having "struggles" and admitted that not everything was "fine and dandy". "The funniest happening was a week earlier we were getting married. The adjacent week we're splitting up," helium told the Evening Standard's ES magazine.

"And the happening for maine is, I conscionable similar to deliberation we're determination successful the middle. You know, we person our struggles — similar of people I'm not gonna beryllium present and accidental that everything's perfectly good and dandy, due to the fact that of people you spell done antithetic things, and that's what a narration is." It's the archetypal clip either of them has acknowledged the rumours swirling astir their relationship.

Candid truths

2018: Liam admits helium felt 'pushed out' by his son's birth. "A parent and kid is the astir beauteous happening to watch, but they're the closest happening ever - and you'll ne'er beryllium arsenic close," helium told Hashtag Legend. "A batch of dads consciousness enactment retired successful that sense. I didn't truly consciousness enactment out, but I was like, 'Where's my place?'. I was hopeless to find retired what I was meant to do."

He went on: "For maine arsenic a dad, you're conscionable taking attraction of everything arsenic overmuch arsenic you can, making definite he's got a grin connected his face. And if you navigator for her, she feeds him, truthful you're cooking for everyone – that's what my happening was. As daft arsenic it sounds, cooking really got maine done fatherhood due to the fact that it made maine consciousness useful, alternatively than being the feline who conscionable gets handed to alteration his nappy and marque him laughter and giggle."

Sad split

2018: Liam lands himself successful blistery h2o during a unrecorded vigor interrogation arsenic helium tells Nick Grimshaw that Cheryl is "in the toilet". He past says: "Oh she's coming retired now, 1 second. Let's find retired what's going on. First off, was it a fig 1 oregon two?" helium laughed. "Erm, she says 'stop it'." Source said astatine the clip she was furious with Liam for humiliating her, and immoderate fans judge it was the past straw.

The brace past denote their divided aft 2 and a fractional years together, but vow to stay adjacent portion they rise their son. A connection read: "We are bittersweet to denote that we are going our abstracted ways. It's been a pugnacious determination for america to make. We inactive person truthful overmuch emotion for each different arsenic a family. Bear is our satellite and we inquire that you respect his privateness arsenic we navigate our mode done this together."

Cheryl declares she's 'done' with dating aft 2 failed marriages and her divided from Liam. She told Jessie Ware's Table Manners podcast: "I cognize what I privation successful life, but successful the romanticist area, I americium not arsenic evolved. That country has stopped. It's not happening anymore. It's the end. It's the end. I've got the antheral [Bear] successful my beingness now."

Sperm donor search

2020: Cheryl leaves jaws dropping erstwhile she suddenly announces she's looking for a sperm donor for babe two. She told The Times that she plans to conceive "more than 1 child" via a sperm donor and was consenting to spell overseas to find the close outcome.

Liam responds by throwing his value down Cheryl's plan. "He gave Cheryl his afloat blessing – insisting he'd enactment her nevertheless helium could and making her consciousness astatine easiness with her determination by letting her cognize they'd beryllium 1 large blended family," the root told New magazine.

"Cheryl's travel to bid with the determination to find a sperm donor and she's hopeless to autumn large with twins – insisting that fixed she wants 2 much children, it volition beryllium acold easier to bash it erstwhile than spell done the process again down the line."

Co-parenting together

2020: Liam comments connected an aged clip of his X Factor audition successful an interrogation with Esquire and says: "Let's code the elephant successful the room… Obviously, the aboriginal parent of my lad is sat successful that chair." Cheryl was said to beryllium fuming helium brought it up.

A root told heat magazine: "It's truly embarrassing erstwhile it's enactment successful that discourse and it makes her cringe." She was besides said to beryllium "fed up" of beingness successful lockdown with Bear - particularly with Liam surviving separately.

2022: Liam does an interrogation with US YouTuber Logan Paul and touches connected the breakdown of his narration aft having Bear. He shared: "To beryllium honorable with you, it ruined a narration astatine that constituent – but for each the close reasons. I was truthful excited for him to beryllium calved that I was really disquieted if I wouldn't emotion him enough."

He revealed it was scary erstwhile Bear was archetypal calved arsenic Cheryl "haemorrhaged rather badly" aft the birth. This meant she had to remainder for overmuch of Bear's archetypal time successful the satellite – leaving a young Liam to attraction for his babe son. "It was maine and a babe successful the country and I had to instrumentality attraction of him. It was fun," helium said.

Discussing the narration helium had with his son, Liam added: "I instrumentality my lad to schoolhouse 1 oregon 2 times a week and it's the champion thing. The narration we [him and Cheryl] person present arsenic friends has lone grown more. We broke up for a crushed and present she gives maine afloat autonomy of my beingness and to bash what I bash and I cognize he's [Bear's] taken attraction of. He is each she cares astir and I couldn't inquire for more."

2024: In March of this year, Liam gave a uncommon glimpse into his household life. He posted an Instagram showing Bear successful a yellowish overgarment looking astatine a billboard advertizing his dad's caller music. The caption read, "I privation to beryllium connected a billboard 1 day, Daddy."

At the time, an insider told OK! that Liam was acceptable for a caller start. The root said: "We don't spot a batch of Bear connected Liam's societal media but I deliberation helium wants to beryllium to Cheryl that he's getting his beingness together. He truly wants to beryllium a bully dada and with Cheryl present going backmost connected circuit with Girls Aloud, she'll beryllium busier than ever and won't beryllium astatine location arsenic much."