Liam Payne’s girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, has opened up about the former One Direction singer’s shocking death. In her first interview since Payne’s sudden passing last October, Cassidy, 25, shared heart-wrenching details about how she learned that the star died, admitting she “completely blacked out.”

Four months after Liam Payne fatally fell from a hotel balcony in Argentina, his girlfriend Kate Cassidy shared the heartbreaking final text she sent the One Direction alum before his death.