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Nicole Scherzinger was part of Liam Payne’s profession rise and now she’s paying tribute to him.
Payne died recently after falling from the third flooring of a lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.
The group that made him well-known, One Course, was fashioned on the UK actuality competitors present “The X Issue,” whereas Scherzinger was a choose.
She took to social media on Thursday to write down: “Pricey Liam, I’ll endlessly cherish and treasure the time we shared collectively, from fifteen years in the past when One Course was born, proper up till only a few weeks in the past.”
“It was such a blessing to get to work with you latterly,” her submit continued. “We shared the identical love and keenness for music and I’ll endlessly bear in mind the significant and joyful conversations we had.”
Scherzinger added that it’s “been so laborious to course of that you simply’re not right here, however I’m grateful to have recognized your type coronary heart, candy soul and character.”
“You introduced a lot pleasure, mild, and laughter to the lives of people who really knew you,” she concluded. “I’ll “miss you” my buddy and carry you in my coronary heart. My ideas and prayers are with your loved ones.”
Scherzinger, a former member of the Pussycat Dolls, is at the moment starring in “Sundown Blvd.” on Broadway, which incorporates the compositions of the legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Webber talked to Billboard about Scherzinger discovering her mentee Payne had died.
“On the Wednesday when he died, she was nonetheless texting him that day, and [that evening] the reviewers got here in [to ‘Sunset’], she’d simply heard that he died,” Webber mentioned. “And the truth that she even did the present in any respect is extraordinary. I imply she is a tremendous, wonderful girl. She is with none query one of many best performers I’ve ever labored with.”
CNN has reached out to representatives for Scherzinger for affirmation/remark.