Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy relived 'the happiest trip of her life' as she returned to Finland, two years after she went with the late star.
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The One Direction star died aged 31 in October 2024, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was found to have alcohol and cocaine in his system.
The American influencer, 25, took to Instagram on Wednesday to share snaps of her posing with the Northern Lights in the background.
She wrote: 'two years ago, I stood in this same place with the person I love, in hopes to see the northern lights but unfortunately we didn’t get lucky.
'Somehow it was still one of the happiest trips of my life. Tonight, after coming back to Finland two years later, the lights finally came out.
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'Though Liam is no longer here I have prayed and begged for another chance to see the lights. I am so fortunate to be able to experience this moment for the both of us.'
Liam Payne's girlfriend Kate Cassidy relived 'the happiest trip of her life' as she returned to Finland, two years after she went with the late star
This time round, Kate said she finally got to see the Northern Lights after she and Liam failed to two years ago (pictured on their Finland trip)
Kate broke down in tears as she returned to the home she shared with Liam in England last week.
She emotionally shared she has 'never felt this much pain' as she spoke in a new TikTok video while revealing she had been sitting outside the home for 45 minutes.
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Liam owned several homes, most notably a mansion in Buckinghamshire as well as his rental mansion in Florida.
She said: 'I've been sitting outside of the house that I used to live in with Liam for the past 45 minutes just in my car and it's just really hard to wrap my head around the fact that I'm not pulling in the driveway and going home to him being there.
'You really just never know what life is going to bring. Life can bring you plenty of happiness and plenty of joy, I've experienced it all. But I've never felt this much pain.
'I came back to the town that me and Liam had a life in and where we were happy. I've only been here for two days, I really, really thought that this trip would help me move forward. But I feel like this trip has been the opposite for me.
'I would do absolutely anything right now to be able to pull onto the driveway and just be walking into the house with him waiting for me on the couch.
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'I've been doing a lot of things that me and Liam would enjoy and instead of it bringing me comfort, it's really just brought me nothing but sadness. I feel like I'm just five steps backwards.
She wrote: 'two years ago, I stood in this same place with the person I love, in hopes to see the northern lights but unfortunately we didn’t get lucky... Tonight, after coming back to Finland two years later, the lights finally came out'
Kate broke down in tears as she returned to the home she shared with Liam in England last week
'And I do love being here, I know that makes no sense because I'm sitting here crying my eyes out saying that it's bringing me so much sadness but I love it so much because I was just so in love with him.
'Here, where it all started. Our life really, really began together and it's just been really hard.'
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Kate had been staying with Liam in Argentina. But she left for the Florida mansion two days before the singer plunged from the third floor of the hotel.
Last year, Kate broke down in tears and said that her future boyfriends would have to accept that she’ll ‘always love’ Liam.
The influencer shared an update as she hit back at an online troll who said that they wished he would stop talking about the late singer and move on.
The pair had been together for two years before he passed away, with Kate documenting her journey with grief on social media.
In a TikTok video, Kate said: 'I want to make something clear. Whoever I end up with in my future will have to accept the fact I will always love Liam.
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'I will always talk about Liam, I will always laugh about Liam, I will always cry about Liam.'
The pair had been together for two years before he passed away, with Kate documenting her journey with grief on social media (pictured in 2023)
Kate continued: 'Let me tell you something, Liam Payne was my boyfriend. He wasn’t just this famous figure to me.
'It hurts so bad because I am just criticised all the time for speaking about my boyfriend that passed away, the person that I loved and still do love.
'I would never settle for anyone in this lifetime who did not feel comfortable enough with me speaking about Liam.
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'Liam was a very big part of my life. He was my best friend, somebody I really thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with and, obviously, I know one day I’m going to have to move on. I want to get married one day. I want to have kids.
'When a person dies, they die twice, once when they actually die and the second time when you stop speaking about them. I’m not going to have Liam die twice on me. I will love him forever.'