Kate Cassidy has revealed she is ready to start dating again, 18 months after the singer’s tragic passing.
The American influencer, 27, dated the One Direction star for two years, until he died aged 31 in October 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was found to have alcohol and cocaine in his system.
And Kate has been very open with her followers about her grief process, often taking to social media to share how she feels.
Sharing a video to Instagram on Friday she confessed: ‘I am ready to start dating again.
‘It has been a year and a half since Liam passed away. I think that love after loss is a big chapter within your grief journey and I don’t know how that is going to feel.
‘But I do know that I loved being in love. I want to have kids one day, I want to have a family and I know Liam would want that for me and if the roles were reversed I would want him to be happy and fall in love again.’
Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy has revealed she is ready to start dating again 18 months after the singer’s death but says ‘I will always love Liam and that will never change’
She continued: ‘I will always love Liam and that will never change no matter who I meet and who comes into my life.
‘I am going to think about Liam on my wedding day, I am going to think about him everyday for the rest of my life and that goes without saying.’
It comes after Kate teased she was ready to start dating again as she filmed a fun TikTok video earlier this month.
The American influencer tagged the network responsible for The Bachelorette and asked to be chosen for the show.
Kate danced for the camera wearing sunglasses and wrote: ‘Heard they’re looking for a new Bachelorette…. hi’.
She captioned the post: ‘hi abc’.
Fans took to the comments to say they would tune-in if Kate starred on the hit US show because she would be a ‘good match’.
They wrote: ‘I’d watch the show for the first time if you went on it; Wait but genuinely can this happen; Girl wait.. you might be onto something here..;
She continued: ‘I will always love Liam and that will never change no matter who I meet and who comes into my life’
‘Your season would EAT; Actually you would be a good match for this; I’d watch the bachelorette for the first time in my life if they picked you’.
The influencer shared an update as she hit back at an online troll who said that they wished he would stop talking about the late singer and move on.
In a previous TikTok, Kate also addressed love after Liam as she said: ‘I want to make something clear. Whoever I end up with in my future will have to accept the fact I will always love Liam.
‘I will always talk about Liam I will always laugh about Liam, I will always cry about Liam.’
Kate continued: ‘Let me tell you something, Liam Payne was my boyfriend. He wasn’t just this famous figure to me.
‘It hurts so bad because I am just criticised all the time for speaking about my boyfriend that passed away, the person that I loved and still do love. I would never settle for anyone in this lifetime who did not feel comfortable enough with me speaking about Liam.
‘Liam was a very big part of my life. He was my best friend, somebody I really thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with and, obviously, I know one day I’m going to have to move on. I want to get married one day. I want to have kids.
‘When a person dies, they die twice, once when they actually die and the second time when you stop speaking about them. I’m not going to have Liam die twice on me. I will love him forever.’