Naomi Campbell comments on Liam Payne’s death 5 years after they briefly dated

Naomi Campbell reacted to Liam Payne’s tragic death 5 years aft they were rumored to person concisely dated.

The supermodel took to Instagram Friday to time off a connection connected her friend Nicole Scherzinger’s station paying tribute to nan erstwhile One Direction member.

“🕊️💔🕊️🙏🏾,” Campbell, 54, simply commented beneath photos of Payne, nan Pussycat Dolls frontwoman and their chap “Building nan Band” judge Kelly Rowland.

The manner icon and nan “Strip That Down” singer, who had a 23-year property gap, reportedly dated for 4 months successful 2019.

They first sparked romance rumors that January aft leaving flirty comments connected each other’s Instagram posts.

“Perfection successful a personification … don’t springiness maine those eyes,” Payne wrote to Campbell astatine nan time.

She went connected to telephone him a “Beautiful Soul ❤️,” to which he cheekily replied, “takes 1 to cognize 1 😘.”

The British catwalker, who was 48 astatine nan time, and nan English crooner, who was 25, were seen later that period attending Nigerian creator Davido’s performance successful London.

They hung retired again astatine a edifice successful Ghana successful February 2019 and later astatine backstage London nine Annabel’s.

However, nan pair’s whirlwind romance came to a halt that April, pinch a root telling nan Sun that Campbell made nan determination to “let things fizzle out.”

Both stars were questioned astir their rumored narration respective times, but they stayed tight-lipped.

Andy Cohen asked Payne to “confirm aliases deny” nan romance during a December 2019 section of “Watch What Happens Live,” to which nan “Teardrops” vocalist decided to “plead nan fifth.”

While it is unclear whether Campbell and Payne stayed successful touch aft their little fling, he remained adjacent pinch their communal friend Scherzinger, 46, and moreover texted nan “Sunset Boulevard” prima connected nan time he died.

Scherzinger, who helped shape One Direction pinch Simon Cowell arsenic a judge connected “The X Factor” successful 2010, mourned Payne’s decease successful her affectional Instagram station Friday.

“I will everlastingly cherish and wealth nan clip we shared together, from 15 years agone erstwhile One Direction was born, correct up until conscionable a fewer weeks ago,” she wrote successful part.

The “Don’t Cha” vocalist added that nan precocious popular prima “brought truthful overmuch joy, light, and laughter to nan lives of those” who knew him.

Payne died connected Oct. 16 aft falling 3 stories from his edifice pavilion successful Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was 31.

The erstwhile boy bander — who had antecedently been unfastened astir his struggles pinch constituent maltreatment and intelligence health — had cocaine, crack, benzodiazepine and a supplier cocktail known arsenic “pink cocaine” successful his strategy astatine nan clip of his death, according to his autopsy report.

Several of Payne’s family members and adjacent friends, including his erstwhile One Direction bandmates, person released statements mourning nan loss.

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