Liam Payneβs girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, reveals the couple had plans to marry within a year, before his unexpected death at 31 years old. The influencer sharing a tribute on Instagram including never-before-seen photos of the couple, adding they will ‘be together forever, but not in the way we had planned.’ Kate had returned home just days before the former One Direction star’s fatal fall from a Buenos Aires hotel on Oct. 16th, two years after the couple first met in 2022.