Liam Payne's sister reflects on living life without her brother after tragic death
Ruth Gibbins has paid a heartfelt tribute to her late brother Liam Payne to mark 18 months since he died.
Liam Payne's sister feels "homesick" for the life she had before his death.
The One Direction singer passed away in October 2024 at the age of 31 after falling from his hotel balcony in Argentina and now Ruth Gibbins has reflected on the 18 months since the tragedy and admitted she is "struggling" to live without him in her life.
She wrote on her Instagram Story: "18 months without you, it feels impossible to be a sentence, yet here we are.
"Healing is such a tricky thing to navigate. I can't return to who I was before, because grief has changed my outlook that I could never be that person again, but then I get sad Liam will never know me who appeared after his death.
"And then the main part of me is so homesick to go back to my before life, if it was an option given to me between that life or solve all the problems in the world forever, id always choose to go back to my life where my brother existed.
"Liam taught me so much in life, but he didn't teach me how to live without him and thats a lesson I'm really struggling to get to grips with."
