Louis Tomlinson reveals whether One Direction will reunite after Liam Payne's death

Louis Tomlinson has revealed whether there's a possibility of One Direction reuniting for a tour without their late bandmate,Liam Payne, who died in October last year. Louis, who recently sat down for a rare interview, opened up about his lifeand touched upon the tragic death of his pal.

At one point, he said the remaining quartet simply couldn't reunite without their departed brother. Louis shared: "Never say never, right, but I'm just not sure it would be right to him. Say for the sake of argument, 25 years' time, it's like a f***** Oasis thing, they offer us an arm and a leg, and they're like, 'Come back and do this many shows'.

"It's just completely put a pin in all of that. And the irony is, there was no one campaigning for One Direction to get back more than Liam... I would say he [Liam] was the closest to being my brother."

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During a chat on The Diary Of A CEO, with presenter Steven Bartlett, Louis confessed he's "still unpacking" One Direction's break up in 2016 and "realising that the only way is down from here" as a solo performer, reports the Daily Star.

He also looked back on losing his mum Johannah Deakin to leukaemia in 2016, and remembered taking to the X Factor stage just three days after her passing, following her wishes.

He revealed: "I knew why she was telling me. She was telling me because she would've hated if something that happened to her affected my life and my career.

"I would do it again for her. I don't think I'll ever have a more challenging time in my life than those three and a half minutes on stage. I did it only for her."

He also heartbreakingly lost his younger sister, Felicity, a few years afterwards. He expressed: "I couldn't believe how deeply unlucky we'd been as a family.

"I felt angry at life and I felt angry on behalf of my family... I felt like I'd let my sister and my mum down.

"My mum said to me, the last couple of weeks of her life, she was like, 'You better promise me you'll look after your sisters... Especially Felicity, you know she's fragile'."

The interview also had more upbeat moments as he mentioned being in “love” with new girlfriend Zara McDermott and also feeling positive about his life now.

He said: “I’m a deeply, deeply romantic person. It’s also easy to to be romantic when you are a creative. I really struggle to write in a fictional sense, I really struggle.

“For me, I have to have been living it, it has to be real to me. So if I wasn’t feeling so good, like right now, I wasn’t feeling so in love…the record probably would have a slightly different feel to it.”

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