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An Emotional Shawn Mendes Pauses Concert to Pay Tribute to Liam Payne


An emotional Shawn Mendes paused his concert in Brooklyn to pay tribute to Liam Payne: ‘The world is crying for you brother,’ he said

Shawn Mendes.Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTVMendes, 26, addressed the audience at the Paramount Theater on Friday, October 18, and said the news of Payne’s death two days before felt “completely devastating,” according to social media footage found online. “As I try to navigate this earth-shattering event and work through my own grief at this indescribably painful time, I’d like to kindly remind everyone that we have lost a human being,” wrote Cole, 41, breaking her silence via Instagram on Friday. Payne returned to the show two years later in 2010, when Simon Cowell famously put him together with Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson to form One Direction.

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