Mary Byrne has said that she was like a 'mammy' to Liam Payne during their time on The X Factor as she discussed his tragic passing.
Liam sadly passed away after falling from a third-storey balcony in a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.He became a global phenomenon when he auditioned for X Factor in 2010 and was put in the boyband One Direction with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles.
Speaking to PA, she said: “As a 50-year-old lady going into the X Factor, I found it tough, like the young kids found it tough work as well, and I remember getting to meet Liam at boot camp, and we just got talking one day, and a kind of friendship, a little bond, came between us, the older mammy and the boy.
She went on to say at one point during the show, she was feeling “down” so the other contestants wrote her a card.
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