Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy is ready to date again, 18 months after his death.
Influencer Kate, 27, was left devastated when former One Direction star Liam, 31, died in October 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
But now Kate – who had been in a relationship with Liam for two years before his death – has revealed that she is ready to find love again and thinks Liam would approve.
She shared in an Instagram video: “I am ready to start dating again.
“It has been a year and a half since Liam passed away. I think that love after loss is a big chapter within your grief journey and I don't know how that is going to feel.
“But I do know that I loved being in love. I want to have kids one day, I want to have a family and I know Liam would want that for me and if the roles were reversed I would want him to be happy and fall in love again.
“I will always love Liam and that will never change no matter who I meet and who comes into my life.
'I am going to think about Liam on my wedding day, I am going to think about him everyday for the rest of my life and that goes without saying.”
Kate previously insisted that any future love will need to make room for Liam in their life and said she will “love him forever”.
She shared on TikTok: “I want to make something clear. Whoever I end up with in my future will have to accept the fact I will always love Liam.
“I will always talk about Liam I will always laugh about Liam, I will always cry about Liam.
“Let me tell you something, Liam Payne was my boyfriend. He wasn’t just this famous figure to me.
“It hurts so bad because I am just [slammed] all the time for speaking about my boyfriend that passed away, the person that I loved and still do love. I would never settle for anyone in this lifetime who did not feel comfortable enough with me speaking about Liam.
“Liam was a very big part of my life. He was my best friend, somebody I really thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with and, obviously, I know one day I'm going to have to move on. I want to get married one day. I want to have kids.
“When a person dies, they die twice, once when they actually die and the second time when you stop speaking about them. I'm not going to have Liam die twice on me. I will love him forever.”
