Liam Payne's special Christmas tradition with Bear and his tragic promise to Cheryl

Liam Payne and Cheryl Tweedy made definite they stuck to their Christmas traditions pursuing their divided truthful that their son, Bear, would ever acquisition the festive magic

Liam Payne and Cheryl Tweedy ever ensured they kept up heartfelt household traditions for their lad Bear astatine Christmas.

Despite the brace separating erstwhile Bear was conscionable a baby, they co-parented and ever made definite helium had a magical Christmas. Sadly, this twelvemonth volition beryllium devastatingly antithetic for seven-year-old Bear and Cheryl, 41, aft the bittersweet passing of the One Direction star, marking the archetypal Christmas without him.

Liam, who volition beryllium laid to remainder in a backstage ceremonial ceremonial today, spoke antecedently astir his emotion for celebrating the festivities with his lad and Cheryl. The father-of-one was determined to marque Christmas Day other peculiar for Bear and truthful they ever spent it unneurotic arsenic a family.

Opening up during a 2019 occurrence of This Morning, backmost erstwhile Bear was lone 2 and a fractional years old, Liam revealed his plans to articulation Cheryl and their lad for a Christmas meal. Liam shared: "I'm going to spell down and spot Bear, possibly navigator a Christmas dinner and conscionable bent retired with family. Yeah, we're going to spell down and navigator immoderate nutrient and bent out."

Offering a saccharine penetration into his beingness arsenic a young dad, Liam continued: "I deliberation it's the archetypal clip helium truly gets Christmas now. I privation to spot if helium really gets unwrapping presents this twelvemonth though, due to the fact that otherwise, it'll conscionable beryllium Cheryl by the histrion again. I tin truly retrieve it from past year, she wrapped them each up and past unwrapped them and I conscionable sat determination going, 'Right, what is this?''"

Even aft ending their relationship, Cheryl, 41, and Liam ne'er had a atrocious connection to accidental astir each other, and regularly praised each other's parenting skills. The erstwhile mates broke up soon aft Bear's archetypal day but maintained an amicable co-parenting narration - adjacent surviving adjacent to each different to marque things easier.

Speaking connected Logan Paul's podcast Impaulsive, Liam opened up astir their affirmative arrangement, explaining: "I get to instrumentality my lad to schoolhouse 1 oregon 2 times a week and it's the champion thing. The narration we 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. They unrecorded similar 3 minutes from my house. I ever glue myself to wherever helium is. My beingness present is his."

In a heartbreaking connection shared aft Liam's death, Cheryl reflected connected Bear facing 'the world of ne'er seeing his begetter again'. She wrote: "As I effort to navigate this earth-shattering lawsuit and enactment done my ain grief astatine this indescribably achy time, I'd similar to kindly punctual everyone that we person mislaid a quality being. Liam was not lone a popular prima and celebrity; helium was a son, a brother, an uncle, a beloved person and a begetter to our seven-year-old son.

"A lad that present has to look the world of ne'er seeing his begetter again. What is troubling my tone the astir is that 1 time Bear volition person entree to the abhorrent reports and media exploitation we person seen successful the past 2 days. It is breaking my bosom further that I cannot support him from that successful his future."