{"id":132042,"date":"2025-10-19T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:16:07","slug":"louis-tomlinson-says-he-will-forever-despise-logan-paul-over-controversial-liam-payne-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132042\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Tomlinson says he will &#8220;forever despise&#8221; Logan Paul over controversial Liam Payne interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/louis-tomlinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Tomlinson<\/a> has said that he will \u201cforever despise\u201d Logan Paul over his divisive interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/liam-payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Payne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"247\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>READ MORE:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/liam-payne-one-direction-obituary-3803755\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Liam Payne 1993-2024: One Direction star who helped spark a pop phenomenon<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Payne appeared on YouTuber Paul\u2019s Impaulsive series in June 2022 and made headlines for a slew of controversial comments about his time in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/one-direction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Direction<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/liam-payne-tells-logan-paul-one-direction-member-threw-me-up-a-wall-3239096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claiming that one of his bandmates had thrown him \u201cup a wall\u201d<\/a>\u00a0during an argument.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that there were \u201cmany reasons why I dislike\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/zayn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zayn [Malik]<\/a>\u201d, and that Simon Cowell formed the group around him as the lead member. His comments were met with criticism, with Payne accused of being \u201carrogant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A year after appearing on the podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/liam-payne-rehab-stay-viral-one-direction-comments-3467296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Payne apologised for his words, saying it was \u201chard for me to watch back\u201d<\/a> and that he hadn\u2019t realised how much \u201cimpact\u201d his words would have. He also revealed that he had spent 100 days in rehab after the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Payne\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/one-directions-liam-payne-had-died-aged-31-3803523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">passed away in October 2024 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/a>. Following his death, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-darkness-justin-hawkins-defends-criticising-liam-payne-interview-3820812\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the interview recirculated<\/a>, with fans looking at his words in a new light, considering his struggles with his mental health.<\/p>\n<p>Now, his former bandmate Tomlinson has addressed the podcast. Speaking in a new interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/features\/louis-tomlinson-interview-liam-payne-one-direction-b2846694.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Independent<\/a>, he said: \u201cI fucking forever despise [Logan Paul], horrible, horrible little fucker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI think that\u2019s also the problem with some of this new \u2018media\u2019\u2026 I would like to think most journalists,\u201d before correcting himself and saying, \u201csome journalists have a duty of care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson went on to clarify Payne\u2019s claim that he was the lead member of the group, saying it was true. \u201cIt was, definitely,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was definitely a role that was assigned to him. That is the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the podcast in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/liam-payne-rehab-stay-viral-one-direction-comments-3467296\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Payne said that his words had come from \u201cself-protection\u201d<\/a>, but that \u201cthe rest of the boys really stuck by me when I needed them most, they kinda came to the rescue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven Zayn, as well,\u201d he added, \u201cwhich is why I did send him a little thank you online. It came across really big-headed didn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added at the time: \u201cI think, for me, a lot of what I said just came from the wrong place. I was so angry at what was going on around me. Instead of taking a look inwards, I decided to look outwards at everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just took it out on everybody else, which is just wrong, really, and my own frustrations with my own career and where I landed \u2013 I took shots at everybody else and that was wrong so I just wanna apologise for that in the first instance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Payne\u2019s former bandmates \u2013 Tomlinson, Malik, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/Harry-Styles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/Niall-Horan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niall Horan<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/one-direction-speak-out-on-the-death-of-liam-payne-were-completely-devastated-3803904\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all paid tribute to Payne in a statement following his death<\/a>,\u00a0while each band member also took to their social media accounts to pay their respects.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson has recently addressed Payne\u2019s death and said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/louis-tomlinson-reflects-on-liam-paynes-death-it-was-really-really-impossibly-difficult-for-me-to-deal-with-3897864\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it was \u201cimpossibly difficult for him to deal with\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/one-directions-zayn-malik-and-louis-tomlinson-reuniting-for-netflix-documentary-series-3896927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomlinson and Malik recently announced that they are set to reunite for a new Netflix documentary series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/louis-tomlinson-shares-single-lemonade-announces-new-album-how-did-i-get-here-and-2026-uk-ireland-tour-3896606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The former also recently announced his third studio album \u2018How Did I Get Here?\u2019<\/a>, which will be released on January 23 and you can pre-order\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/louist.lnk.to\/HowDidIGetHerePR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0along with a 2026 arena tour which will see him play around the UK and Europe next year. You can see all the dates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/louis-tomlinson-shares-single-lemonade-announces-new-album-how-did-i-get-here-and-2026-uk-ireland-tour-3896606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, while tickets go on general sale on Friday (October 10)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Flouis-tomlinson-tickets%2Fartist%2F5247395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louis Tomlinson has said that he will \u201cforever despise\u201d Logan Paul over his divisive interview with Liam Payne.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,5,4513],"class_list":{"0":"post-132042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}