Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy shares one of the letters he wrote to her

Six months after former One Direction star Liam Payne’s death, his girlfriend is speaking out for the first time.

While a guest on the “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” podcast, Kate Cassidy talked about her life with Payne, the last goodbye they shared before his death, and she read one of the many letters he wrote her during their two-year relationship.

Payne died on Oct. 16, 2024, while vacationing in Argentina.

Cassidy had been with him in Argentina but caught a flight back to the United States a few days earlier where she and Payne had just bought a home.

Payne died of multiple trauma from a fall, the BBC reported. He was 31 years old.

During her conversation with Shetty, Cassidy shared one of the many letters that Payne had written to her. This particular letter was given to her with a gift. The letter read:

“The reason I picked this watch out for you is because it doesn’t have any numbers on it, and my love for you is endless. It literally means eternity. So now every time you look down at your wrist, you can know and remember that my love for you is timeless. We have all the time in the world to learn our love language for each other, and I hope and pray that I get this right for you. With every tick and every tock this watch makes from the second onwards, I love you with all my heart, Kaitlin, and I won’t lose you. You’re 444.”

As Cassidy got emotional reading the letter, she noted, “It’s just so hard to process that we thought we had all this time, and he thought we had all this time, and it was just taken away.”

As the 26-year-old continued, she also opened up about their final day together. She explained that she and Payne often shared heartfelt goodbyes with each other regardless of where they were going.

“On our last day, we woke up, we had an amazing breakfast. We were in the countryside. We went horseback riding, and I had a later on evening flight,” Cassidy said of the final day they spent together in Argentina.

“The way me and Liam would say goodbye to each other wasn’t just like, ‘Oh, I’ll see you later.’ Majority of the time it was this heartfelt, long goodbye for at least five minutes of just hugging, ‘I’m gonna miss you. I love you,’” Cassidy explained.

“On the last day in Argentina, my car was in the driveway, and we went back into the guest house, grabbed my suitcase, and we were sitting on the couch, and I just kept going on and on and on about how much I love him and how much he means to me, and how much I’m going to miss him, and that I can’t wait for him to already be back in Florida, because we were starting this new chapter of our life.”

In one of the last things Payne said to Cassidy, the singer laughed at the influencer, telling her that she was going to miss her flight.

“He interrupted me, and he just said, ‘Kate, like you’re gonna miss your flight, your car’s in the driveway. You’re acting like this is the last time you’re ever gonna see me again.’”

“I just laughed back. I was just like, ‘I know I’m being silly. I need to get in the car. I can’t miss my flight,’” Cassidy recalled. “Just to even look back in time and just know that really was the last time I was able to see him. It’s just so chilling.”

Though it haunts Cassidy, she admits that final goodbye also brings her peace.

“I think that the way that we said goodbye to each other, I’m so blessed, and this is where I get that peace from it, that it was that heartfelt, beautiful.”