Liam Payne's relationship history: From a long-term romance with Cheryl and steamy fling with Naomi Campbell to his fiery split from Maya Henry - a lookback at the singer's love life after his tragic death at 31

Liam Payne's decease has devastated fans astir the world, aft the singer fell from a 3rd level of a edifice successful the Argentinian superior of Buenos Aires.

Several witnesses told TMZ that Liam had fallen from his country astatine the CasaSur Palmero Hotel soon aft 5pm connected Wednesday evening. 

The star's last Snapchat posts showed him happily posing with his bikini-clad spouse Kate Cassidy as they looked into a mirror.

Liam was champion known arsenic a subordinate of the beloved boyband One Direction, but besides made headlines with his turbulent emotion life. 

Having archetypal won an service of fans astatine the property of 16, Liam went onto day a drawstring of stars, astir famously X Factor justice Cheryl, with whom helium shared seven-year-old lad Bear.

As good arsenic a fling with exemplary Naomi Campbell, Liam was besides engaged to exemplary Maya Henry, who successful caller days had instructed lawyers to contented a cease and desist missive to her ex aft accusing him of repeatedly contacting her.

MailOnline takes a look astatine Liam Payne's narration history...

Danielle Peazar (2010-2012) 

Liam met dancer Danielle erstwhile they some appeared connected The X Factor successful 2010 with the mates going connected to day for 2 years. 

The brace enjoyed a precise little reconciliation the pursuing year, but soon called it quits for good.   

In 2018, Danielle sparked rumours she was backmost successful interaction the vocalist aft a instrumentality asked Danielle if she and the vocalist kept successful interaction during an Instagram Q&A, to which she responded: 'I’m gonna support that betwixt him and I.'

Sophia Smith (2013-2015) 

Liam and Sophia primitively met erstwhile they were some successful school, but didn’t day until 2013, splitting successful October 2015. 

He told The Sun On Sunday astatine the time: 'I’m perfectly devastated to person divided with Sophia, but successful bid to bash close by somebody, sometimes it’s amended not to bash what your bosom wants, but to bash what’s amended for them.'

The divided came arsenic a daze to fans as just weeks earlier the boyband hunk admitted that the brace were talking astir marriage.

In an interrogation with Attitude magazine, helium said: 'We person talked astir marriage, but 22 seems a spot young for us. Sophia needs to spell disconnected and bash what she wants to do.

'I don’t privation her to beryllium 1 of those stay-at-home girlfriends who doesn’t truly bash much.'

Cheryl (2015-2017) 

Liam's astir high-profile romance was with vocalist Cheryl, who is 10 years his senior.

The mates archetypal met erstwhile Cheryl was 24 erstwhile a past 14-year-old Liam archetypal auditioned for the X Factor backmost successful 2008, but the pair's romance is said to person started successful December 2015 erstwhile they got reacquainted astatine the X Factor final.

Cheryl and Liam went nationalist with their romance successful February 2016 and welcomed lad Bear successful March 2017.

The mates went their abstracted ways successful July 2018 pursuing a 2 and a fractional twelvemonth romance but person remained amicable co-parents to their son. 

In 2022, Liam declared welcoming lad Bear with ex Cheryl 'ruined their narration but for each the close reasons' successful his astir candid chat yet. 

Speaking connected Logan Paul's Impaulsive podcast, the Strip That Down vocalist said helium primitively struggled with becoming a begetter astatine the tender property of 23, and elaborate however Cheryl haemorrhaged 'badly' portion giving birth.

He said: 'I similar to speech to different caller dads. You don't cognize what is coming and it's different. 

'And to beryllium honorable with you, it ruined a narration for maine 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.'

Cairo Dwek (2018) 

Liam enjoyed a summertime romance with model Cairo, with their two-month narration coming to an extremity successful September 2018 aft 2 months of dating.

The Bedroom Floor hitmaker confirmed their divided erstwhile fans quizzed him connected his narration presumption - bizarrely beneath 1 of vocalist John Mayer's unrecorded Instagram videos.

After John told fans helium was single, Liam rapidly unopen down speculation adding: 'I'm azygous too,' followed by a wink emoji. 

Naomi Campbell (2019)

Liam was linked Naomi, who is 23 years older than him, successful 2019, with the mates said to person enjoyed a four-month fling that ended successful April aft Naomi got 'bored' of the singer.   

It began with a seemingly harmless flirtation connected Instagram, liking and commenting connected 1 another's steamy posts.

Liam described her arsenic 'perfection successful a person', with her branding him 'a beauteous soul'.

There were reports astir Liam bragging astir the couple's 'mind-blowing' sex, but erstwhile Naomi was asked outright astir the tryst connected The Jonathan Ross Show she said the rumours were 'humorous'. Any romance appeared to extremity soon aft this.

Jonathan asked Naomi astir her emotion life, saying: 'There person been a batch of headlines precocious connecting you to Mr Liam Payne…'

Naomi stood steadfast though, simply smiling and replying: 'And? I ne'er sermon my idiosyncratic life. Another name?'

Naomi smiled: 'I ne'er sermon my idiosyncratic life. I mean, it's brainsick it's similar 1 time it's 1 person, the adjacent time it's another. Who is tomorrow? That's what I privation to know… For maine I laugh. The stories are incredible, it's humorous… I conscionable get connected with my life.' 

Maya Henry (2019-2022)

Liam revealed successful June that helium had called disconnected his engagement to fiancée Maya, successful bid to 'work connected himself'.  

The mates confirmed their engagement successful August 2020 aft Liam popped the question during lockdown with a £3 cardinal ring.  

The brace were archetypal linked backmost successful August 2018 soon aft Liam's high-profile divided from Cheryl. 

However, they archetypal acceptable eyes connected each different 3 years earlier, erstwhile they were pictured unneurotic astatine a meet-and-greet lawsuit erstwhile One Direction instrumentality Maya was 15.

The singer's stop-start three-year narration with Maya came to an extremity successful 2022, astir a twelvemonth aft the mates called disconnected their engagement.

In caller days, Maya has shared a brutal appraisal of her narration with Liam portion promoting her debut novel Looking Forward.

Speaking to her TikTok followers past week, Maya - the girl of multi-millionaire personal-injury lawyer Thomas J. Henry - claimed Liam went to bonzer lengths successful an effort to interaction her. 

'Ever since we broke up helium messages me, volition stroke up my phone, not lone from his phone, it's ever from antithetic telephone numbers too, truthful I ne'er cognize wherever it's gonna travel from,' she said. 

'He'll make caller iCloud accounts to connection maine - it's ever a caller damn iCloud account. Every clip I spot 1 popular up connected my telephone I'm like, "here we f***ing spell again"

'Also, helium volition email me... not lone me, but he'll stroke up my mom's phone. Is this mean behaviour to you?' 

She added: 'He's the 1 that is perpetually doing weird sh*t,  and besides mightiness I add, helium virtually said the crushed helium has each these radical connected his damn Snapchat, which helium has had for years apparently, and messages, is helium preys connected One Direction fans due to the fact that they're loyal to him.' 

Speaking successful 2021, soon aft confirming their engagement was over, Payne admitted helium was astatine responsibility during an interrogation with Stephen Bartlett's Diary Of A CEO podcast. 

'I consciousness similar much than thing astatine this point, I'm much disappointed successful myself that I support connected hurting people,' helium said.

'That annoys me. I've conscionable not been precise bully astatine relationships. And I cognize what my signifier of things is with relationships astatine this point.

'I'm conscionable not precise bully astatine them truthful I conscionable request to enactment connected myself earlier I enactment myself connected to idiosyncratic else.'

He added: 'That's wherever I got to successful my past relationship. I conscionable wasn't giving a precise bully mentation of maine anymore, that I didn't admit and I didn't similar being. I tin honestly accidental I consciousness amended retired of it.

'I didn't consciousness bully doing what I did but it had to happen. Just a corny mode to accidental it was the champion for america both.'

Kate Cassidy (2022-2024)

Kate and Liam archetypal started dating successful October 2022, and made their reddish carpet debut astatine the Fashion Awards aboriginal that year.

However, successful May 2023, the mates sparked divided rumours, with a root telling US Weekly: 'Liam and Kate person breached up.'

The brace past enactment an extremity to divided rumours by enjoying a day successful London successful June 2023, and aboriginal that twelvemonth she supported him erstwhile helium was rushed to infirmary with a 'serious kidney infection'.

In August, Liam came nether occurrence for making a 'misogynistic' remark towards his woman Kate.

He went viral connected societal media aft Kate shared a TikTok video of the brace showing disconnected their outfits up of day nighttime successful Manchester.

As Kate described her ensemble - a fitted achromatic waistcoat and cropped trousers - Liam looked deadpan into the camera and said: 'Looking good, bully and covered up for once.'

Fans were near successful daze by the remark, taking to X to constituent retired the hypocritical quality of his comment, fixed that helium has posed shirtless and antecedently released the single, Strip That Down.

They commented: '"Looking good, bully and covered up for once” ???? Girl one cognize you faking that laughter astatine the end'; 'meanwhile these are his insta stories'; the information that helium would ever assertion to beryllium the “nice” and “kind” 1 from 1d…. yikes! a soon to beryllium raging misogynist [sic].'

Some fans did travel to his defence, however, posting: 'So galore radical deliberation they cognize precisely what’s going connected based connected a 6 seconds video. It’s disgusting however truthful galore radical find it truthful casual to hate. Shame connected you.';

'Why bash ppl get truthful huffy erstwhile a antheral expresses however helium likes his gf to dress? She evidently inactive wears what she wants. [sic]'