Liam Payne’s sister Nicola Payne learned of his death the way many people did: through a news alert on her phone. “When I saw the news pop up on my phone that you had left us I went cold,” she said Monday in a tribute to her late brother.

The former One Direction member, who died last week at 31, lived a life defined by the internet and its evolving relationship to fandom.

Liam Payne's sister Ruth Gibbins has shared an emotional statement honoring the late One Direction star following his death last week in Argentina.