Liam Payne’s friend shares ‘proud dad’ side of singer after One Direction star’s death

Liam Payne's friend shares 'proud dad' side of singer after One Direction star's deathSource: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00wanted to get into that and then it was just jumping from those things you know

00:04and there was talk always of getting the boy band back together and when there was talk of that

00:08he lit up his face lit up that was really his belonging and that was really his

00:13his I believe his safe haven and um yeah it's it's it's just so sad to see him

00:19and of course there are people that that loved him dearly that knew him his family his very very

00:24close friends uh of which you won and as well as those around the world that that just had an idea

00:31of him and loved him did he talk about his son bear because my heart goes out to him this morning

00:38yeah yes he did um you know i was privy to lots of photos of bear when we spent four days together

00:46in the manibia um you know he obviously a proud dad um and um yeah he that was again when he spoke

00:55about bear his face lit up and like i said i was really privy to the first photos that weren't

01:00out that he showed me and obviously you know that i kept i kept to myself um you know for his privacy

01:05but yeah he was again that's something that did actually really light his face up when he spoke

01:10about his son one last very brief question to you if you if we may um what's become really clear in

01:16the last few hours since we woke up to this news is how he there was something about him that touched

01:20people very deeply like someone like you and people who only met him tangentially he he had

01:25an effect on um if you could distill it what was it about him that made him special in that regard

01:31he was very emotionally intelligent you know he he had great energy about him and he he could

01:37you know as much as i would sense something about him he would sense something about me

01:41you know he's very intelligent like that and his emotional intelligence was was off the scale

01:46and when it matched and when it synced um you had a friend for life wow good to end on well our

01:54thoughts go to you because you're going to be clearly feeling a loss today and it might not

01:58even hit you until the hours that come but thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and memories

02:04okay thank you