Kate, who had been vacationing with the late One Direction member for two weeks in Argentina, had returned to the U.S. prior to his passing, but is currently not at home with her family.
- October 18, 2024
AceShowbiz - Kate Cassidy has not broken her silence on Liam Payne's shocking death, but her family has revealed how she's dealing with the tragedy. Her father said that the influencer is understandably heartbroken by her pop star boyfriend's passing.
"She's grieving," Kate's father told The New York Post on Thursday morning, October 17 from the front door of their family home in Harrington Park, a leafy suburb in northweast. Seemingly echoing the sentiment, he added, "I've been up all night."
Kate's father said his daughter, whom he affectionately calls Kaitlin, wasn't at home. "Kaitlin's not even here. She's down in Florida," he said.
A neighbor who refused to be named described the Cassidys as "a nice family." He said of the news of Liam's tragic passing, "It's so sad. I really felt for them when I read it this morning."
"They're such a nice family. And Kate, she was a bit of a wild one," he said of the family. "There's an easement behind our houses here, and when she was younger I'd see her running down to meet up with her girlfriends and they'd be taking off layers because her parents were so strict."
Speaking of Kate's father, the neighbor said he's "a nice, old-school working-class guy. And his wife, her mom, is just a traditional, nice Irish lady who goes back to Ireland once a year. Just nice people, a nice family."
Kate had been vacationing with Liam for two weeks in Argentina before he fatally fell from a balcony. She, however, had left Liam in South America and returned to the U.S. two days prior to his death.
"Honestly, love South America but I hate staying in one place for too long," she explained in an October 14 TikTok video, which documented her trip back to Florida. "And we were supposed to be there for, like, five days, turned into two weeks."
According to the TikToker, she was "ready to leave" and spend some time back at home. "I was so happy to be home," the influencer, who has over 200,000 followers on both TikTok and Instagram, added in the video. "It was so relieving."
Liam died after falling multiple stories at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, October 16, PolicÃa Federal Argentina confirmed. Autopsy revealed the 31-year-old singer succumbed to "multiple traumas" and "internal and external hemorrhages." According to the autopsy, Payne died on the spot due to the severity of his injuries.
