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Cheryl Cole Breaks Silence on Ex Liam Payne's 'Earth-Shattering' Death


Cheryl Cole, who shares a son with Liam Payne, reacted to the news of the One Direction singer’s death

“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,” Cole, 41, wrote via Instagram on Friday, October 18, sharing a photo of Payne holding a then-infant Bear. 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. Ricky Vigil M/GC Images“To be honest with you, it ruined a relationship for me at that point but for all the right reasons,” he explained on an episode of Logan Paul ’s “Impaulsive” podcast.

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