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Simon Cowell, Who Formed One Direction, Honors Liam Payne: ‘I Feel Empty’

Simon Cowell revealed that he and Liam Payne had met 'just to talk' last year, as he shared he felt 'empty' following the news of his death.

After canceling Britain’s Got Talent auditions Thursday to mourn Liam Payne, Simon Cowell is paying tribute to the late One Direction star. On Friday, Cowell, the music executive who helped form One Direction, issued a statement saying he felt “devastated” and “heartbroken” by the singer’s untimely death. On Thursday, the prosecutor’s office in Argentina shared a post-autopsy report revealing that the former One Direction member died of multiple traumas, internal and external bleeding, and a cranial injury as a result of his fall from the third story of the CasaSur hotel in Palermo.

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