Liam Payne's sister Ruth Gibbins has shared an emotional message about grieving her brother, over a year on from his sudden death. The One Direction star died at the age of 31 on October 16, 2024 after falling from his third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ruth, one of Liam's two older sisters, expressed heartbreak over news that part of their former school – St Peter's Collegiate Academy in Wolverhampton – is being demolished. Taking to her Instagram Story on Friday, she wrote: 'Hearing part of our senior school is being knocked down and having such clear memories of Liam waiting by my locker to ask for money off me all the time. Feels like all of him is being removed from the planet, all the places we've been are changing and he's not here to change with him.'
She also shared a photo of the school corridor from their teenage years alongside the quote: 'A thousand tiny losses every single day.' The post comes after Ruth and sister Nicola Payne paid tribute to Liam on the first anniversary of his death, with Ruth admitting she is still 'paralysed' by grief daily.
In a previous statement, Ruth wrote: 'I underestimated grief, woah, did I underestimate it. I am paralysed by it daily. I thought I had felt it before, but I know the losses before you were just intense sadness, you are the loss of my life, the one person who I will miss at every single occasion in my life.' She also revealed she had been suffering from a recurring nightmare of being in Liam's hotel room, unable to make him hear her 'screaming'.
