“It kinda scares me a little bit to be honest with you,” he told E! about the idea of going solo. “I like having the comfort of the other lads on stage.”
As he noted, “There’s always someone to chat to.”
However, in the years since One Direction went on an indefinite hiatus, Liam—who shares 7-year-old son Bear Grey Payne with his ex Cheryl Cole—got candid about how difficult that time had been for him, causing him to struggle with drugs and alcohol.
“I was worried how far my rock bottom was going to be,” he said on The Diary of a CEO podcast in 2021. “Where’s rock bottom for me? And you would never have seen it. I’m very good at hiding it. No one would ever have seen it.”
Liam added that his mental health issues became “really, really, really severe.”
