Louis Tomlinson isn’t holding again. The previous One Course star, 33, has admitted he won’t ever forgive Logan Paul for a controversial interview with the late Liam Payne, calling the influencer a “horrible little f***er.”
“I f***ing without end despise [Paul], horrible, horrible little f***er,” Tomlinson fumed in an Unbiased interview revealed on Saturday, October 18.
The feud stems from Payne’s look on Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast in Could 2022, throughout which the singer made feedback about his former bandmates that ignited fan outrage. Payne claimed he was basically the band chief and revealed stress with Zayn Malik and Tomlinson, even alleging that one member “threw [him] up a wall” throughout a backstage argument.
Tomlinson addressed the backlash, confirming that Payne did, actually, maintain a management function inside One Course. “It was, undoubtedly,” he stated. “It was undoubtedly a job that was assigned to him. That’s the fact.”
He praised Payne for his expertise and professionalism, noting that the late singer had carried out at Wolverhampton Wanderers halftime exhibits whereas the others had been nonetheless chopping their enamel on smaller college gigs. Tomlinson had even referred to as Payne probably the most “important” a part of the band in a tribute shared after his demise.
“In between him enjoying that function and in addition doing an enormous chunk of the songwriting… it’s not even up for debate,” Tomlinson stated.
Regardless of Payne issuing a number of apologies within the months following the interview, Tomlinson stays pissed off with Paul for giving a platform to the singer’s feedback. Payne had first reached out to Malik in June 2022 through X, writing:
“Listening again perhaps I didn’t articulate myself in addition to I might have. I used to be saying that there’ll all the time be issues we disagree on however that I’ll all the time, all the time be on his facet. That’s household. Zayn is my brother and I’ll stand by him without end.”
He later prolonged an identical olive department to Tomlinson in March 2023, admitting he had been “out of [his] thoughts” whereas ingesting whiskey on the podcast:
“I really feel ashamed in these moments to not be nearly as good of a buddy as you could have been to me. At the very least I’ve time now and I’m me once more so will attempt to make amends.”
In July 2023, Payne revealed he had spent 100 days in rehab to mirror on the fallout from his remarks, admitting in a YouTube video that a lot of his anger had been misdirected:
“Plenty of what I stated got here from the fallacious place… I made a decision to look outwards at everyone else, which is simply fallacious, actually.”
Tragically, Payne died in October 2024 after falling from a third-floor resort balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the age of 31. A toxicology report later confirmed the presence of alcohol, cocaine, and prescription antidepressants in his system, and two individuals have been charged with supplying him with medicine.
