Louis Tomlinson promises to be uncle to Liam Payne’s son following his death

Louis Tomlinson has vowed to beryllium an uncle to the lad of his One Direction bandmate Liam Payne aft the vocalist died aged 31, promising to archer him “stories of however astonishing his dada was”.

Payne, who roseate to fame with the lad set connected The X Factor, died aft falling from a 3rd level balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel successful the Argentine superior Buenos Aires Wednesday.

He leaves down his seven-year-old lad named Bear who helium shared with his erstwhile partner, Girls Aloud vocalist Cheryl.

“I privation you to cognize that if Bear ever needs maine I volition beryllium the uncle helium needs successful his beingness and archer him stories of however astonishing his dada was,” Tomlinson said successful a station connected Instagram.

Payne died of aggregate traumas and “internal and outer haemorrhage” arsenic a effect of the edifice fall, a post-mortem introspection study said.

A property merchandise from Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No 16 said it would beryllium investigating the incidental arsenic an “inconclusive death” aft the report.

In a connection issued via a spokeswoman, Payne’s household told the PA quality bureau they were “heartbroken” and added: “Liam volition everlastingly unrecorded successful our hearts and we’ll retrieve him for his kind, comic and brave soul.”

Payne’s One Direction bandmates said they are “completely devastated” and volition miss the vocalist “terribly”.

A associated connection signed by Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Tomlinson said the “memories we shared with him volition beryllium treasured forever”, adding they volition beryllium taking “some clip to grieve and process the nonaccomplishment of our brother”.

In a abstracted statement, Tomlinson described Payne arsenic “the astir captious portion of One Direction”, describing his “perfect pitch, his signifier presence, (and) his acquisition for writing”.

“I’m truthful grateful that we got adjacent person since the band, speaking connected the telephone for hours, reminiscing astir each the thousands of astonishing memories we had unneurotic is simply a luxury I thought I’d person with you for life,” helium said.

“I would person loved to stock the signifier with you again but it wasn’t to be.”

Tomlinson said helium and Payne had planned to get “back successful the workplace unneurotic to effort and recreate the penning chemistry we had built up successful the band”, adding that helium wished helium had the “chance to accidental goodbye” to “one of my champion friends”.

Both Tomlinson and Malik said they had “lost a brother” successful abstracted statements connected Instagram.

Malik, who near the set successful 2015 citing the request “some backstage clip retired of the spotlight” earlier embarking connected a solo career, thanked Payne for “supporting maine done immoderate of the astir hard times successful my life”.

“When I was missing location arsenic a 17 yr aged kid you would ever beryllium determination with a affirmative outlook and reassuring grin and fto maine cognize you were my person and that I was loved,” helium said.

Malik said helium “butted heads” with Payne astatine times due to the fact that helium was “headstrong” and “opinionated”, but “always secretly respected” him for it.

“I volition cherish each the memories I person with you successful my bosom forever, determination is nary words that warrant oregon explicate however I consciousness close present different than beyond devastated,” helium added.

After Payne’s death, 5 witnesses were questioned successful bid to reconstruct what happened, the prosecutor’s bureau said.

Reports said unit astatine the edifice made 2 calls to exigency services with audio revealing a unit subordinate had asked for assistance for a impermanent who was “intoxicated by drugs and alcohol”.

Police successful the superior said the euphony star’s edifice country had been “in implicit disarray” with “various items broken”, adding that a whiskey bottle, lighter and mobile telephone had been retrieved from the interior edifice courtyard wherever Payne’s assemblage was found.

Famous faces from crossed the euphony manufacture paid tribute to the singer, who embarked connected a solo vocation aft One Direction went connected indefinite hiatus successful 2016.

Former Little Mix vocalist Jade Thirlwall said Payne was the “first person I made successful this industry”, portion JLS subordinate Marvin Humes said helium had “instantly clicked” with the prima erstwhile they archetypal met successful 2008, adding that the set had taken him nether their helping connected The X Factor.

One Direction fans mourned his decease astatine a vigil successful Argentina wherever they lit candles and laid flowers.

The set toured crossed the globe and had 5 chart-topping albums, arsenic good arsenic 4 fig 1 singles successful the UK illustration with tracks including What Makes You Beautiful and Little Things.

The band, without Malik, appeared connected The Late Late Show’s Carpool Karaoke conception with James Corden, raking successful in much than 200 cardinal views connected YouTube.

Gavin And Stacey co-creator Corden said successful a societal media station that Payne “was specified a loving and benignant soul”, adding: “I volition treasure the moments I got to walk with him.”

Payne, who was calved successful Wolverhampton, released his debut solo medium LP1 successful December 2019, which included the songs Polaroid and Strip That Down featuring Quavo.

One of his astir celebrated songs, For You, was a collaboration betwixt him and the vocalist Rita Ora for the movie Fifty Shades Freed successful 2018.

Hours aft his death, Ora sang their opus portion an representation of the brace was projected connected to the surface down her during a show successful Osaka, Japan.