Nicole Scherzinger is paying tribute to Liam Payne with a poignant look again at their shared historical past within the leisure trade.
On Friday, the previous Pussycat Dolls member shared a pair of playful selfies on Instagram exhibiting her and Payne ― who died final week at age 31 ― posing with fellow pop singer Kelly Rowland in what gave the impression to be a dressing room.
Her accompanying caption was written as an open letter to the previous One Path member wherein she recalled “the time we shared together,” together with “just a few weeks ago.”
“It was such a blessing to get to work with you recently,” Scherzinger wrote. “We shared the same love and passion for music and I will forever remember the meaningful and joyful conversations we had.”
“It’s been so hard to process that you’re no longer here, but I am grateful to have known your kind heart, sweet soul and character,” she continued.“You brought so much joy, light, and laughter to the lives of those that truly knew you.”
Earlier than extending her condolences to Payne’s household, she added: “I will ‘miss you’ my friend and carry you in my heart.”
Payne was discovered useless on Oct. 16 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a lodge within the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A preliminary post-mortem report discovered that the pop star had died from a number of traumas and inner and exterior bleeding.
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As followers might recall, Scherzinger is credited alongside file government and TV character Simon Cowell with the formation of One Path in 2010. On the time, Payne was auditioning for the British competitors sequence “The X Factor.”
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When Payne did not make the reduce as a solo artist, he teamed up with fellow contestants Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Harry Types and Louis Tomlinson ― reportedly on the suggestion of Cowell and Scherzinger, a visitor choose ― to compete on the present as a gaggle, which later grew to become One Path.
As of late, Scherzinger is profitable raves for her efficiency within the Broadway revival of “Sunset Boulevard.” The musical’s composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, instructed Billboard in an interview revealed Thursday that Scherzinger “was still texting” Payne on the day of his demise.
“On the Wednesday when he died, she was still texting him that day, and [that evening] the reviewers came in [to ‘Sunset’], she’d just heard that he died,” Lloyd Webber recalled. “And the fact that she even did the show at all is extraordinary. I mean she is an amazing, amazing woman.”
Showing on “Good Morning America” Friday, Scherzinger confirmed that she and Payne filmed a Netflix competitors sequence, “Building the Band,” earlier this 12 months. The standing of that mission is unclear, though Deadline reported final week that Netflix “will likely wish to move forward sensitively” with the present’s launch following Payne’s demise.
