Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy attended the late star’s funeral to say their final goodbye just over a month after his tragic death.

Cassidy, 25, attended Payne’s funeral on Wednesday, November 20, and was joined by the couple’s friend Damian Hurley. She was dressed all in black and wore black sunglasses.

She joined Payne’s family and friends – including his One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan – to lay the singer to rest at a service at a 12th-century church in the English countryside northwest of London .

Cassidy and the “Strip That Down” singer were first linked in October 2022, and although they largely kept their relationship out of the spotlight, he occasionally appeared in photos and videos Cassidy shared on Instagram and TikTok.

Shortly after Payne’s death on October 16, Cassidy revealed that the two had “expressed our life together” just weeks earlier, posting on Instagram a note that Payne had written saying he hoped to get together to get engaged and marry Cassidy within the year.

“I’m keeping your note with me, even though you told me not to look at it. It said: ‘Me and Kate getting married within a year/Engaged and together forever 444,'” she wrote in a message on her Instagram carousel.

“My heart is shattered in a way that I cannot express. “I wish you could see the enormous impact you’ve had on the world, even though it feels so dark right now,” she wrote. “You are – because I can’t say you were – my best friend, the love of my life, and everyone you touched felt as special as I did. None of this feels real and I can’t deal with the new reality of not having you here. I’m having a hard time figuring out how to live in a world without you by my side. Together we were able to be children again and always find joy in the smallest things.”

She ended the post by expressing her love for Payne. “Liam, I know we will be together forever, but not in the way we planned,” she shared. “You will always be with me. I have gained a guardian angel. I will love you for the rest of my life and beyond and carry our dreams and memories with me wherever I go.”

Hurley, the 22-year-old model and filmmaker son of Elizabeth Hurley, also expressed his sadness for Payne, calling him “one of the sweetest men I’ve ever met” in an Instagram post.

“A devastating loss. Thinking of Liam’s family and sending love to them, especially to my beautiful friend @kateecass ❤︎⋆｡ﾟ☾,” he wrote.

His funeral was attended by many of Payne’s other friends, including Simon Cowell, who helped launch One Direction’s career The X Factor in 2010, James Corden and ex Cheryl Cole, the mother of his 7-year-old son Bear.

Payne died on October 16 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after falling from the balcony of his hotel. A preliminary autopsy report revealed that he suffered multiple “internal and external” injuries in the fall, and the Crime and Corrections Prosecutor’s Office later stated that he was “not fully conscious or in a state of noticeable unconsciousness or unconsciousness at the time.” found”. of autumn.”