Liam Payne was texting with Pussycat Dolls alum Nicole Scherzinger on the day he died Scherzinger had been a mentor to the late One Direction singer, whom she met on the set of “The X… See more

Liam Payne may have risen to fame as a talented singer and One Direction star but the “Sunshine” singer will also be remembered as a father.

Payne died Oct. 16 following a fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. The English singer was 31.

Payne became a dad in March 2017 when he and his former partner, fellow singer Cheryl Cole, welcomed a son, Bear, who is now 7.

When Payne announced he and Cole were separating in a July 2018 post on X, he added that “We still have so much love for each other as a family. Bear is our world and we ask that you respect his privacy as we navigate our way through this together.”