Kate Cassidy, the girlfriend of late One Direction singer Liam Payne, is speaking out about his death.

“Thank you for all the kind words and love sent my way,” she began in a message shared to her Instagram Story on Friday.

“I’m completely at my wits’ end,” she continued. “Nothing about the last few days has felt real. I ask and pray that you will give me the grace and space to navigate this privately.”

Then she said, ‘Liam, my angel. You are everything. I want you to know that I loved you unconditionally and completely.”

“I will love you for the rest of my life,” she added. “I love you Liam.”

Payne died on October 16 at the age of 31 after falling from the third floor of his hotel room in Argentina, state police said. Payne’s body was found in the hotel courtyard, where he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The English singer was 31.

Cassidy and Payne were linked since 2022. They made their official red carpet debut in December 2022 at the Fashion Awards in London.

Cassidy regularly shared photos of her and Payne together on social media during their relationship. She explained how they met in a TikTok video posted in September.

In the video, Cassidy describes meeting Payne while she was working at a bar in Charleston, South Carolina. After their first meeting, Payne and Cassidy had lunch together in Charleston, according to Cassidy. “He stayed in Charleston for three days after his original flight,” she said, adding at the end of the video, “Everything happens for a reason.”

Payne also regularly appeared in Cassidy’s TikTok videos. In early October, Cassidy posted a TikTok video with Payne in which she hugs him and kisses him on the cheek. The month before, she shared a photo of them attending a wedding in Paris together.

Cassidy also showed off her love for Payne in an Instagram post last August, when she celebrated his 30th birthday with a sweet tribute. “30 never looked so good❤️happy birthday love,” Cassidy wrote. The post included several photos of the couple smiling, posing together and holding hands.

Cassidy has over 300,000 Instagram followers and 400,000 TikTok followers and regularly shares photos from her travels around the world.

Payne was previously engaged to Maya Henry and shared a 7-year-old son, Bear, with ex-girlfriend Cheryl Cole.